Pep Guardiola lays out demands as Man City prepare for Liverpool last chance title clash

Manchester City are astatine hazard of losing much crushed connected rubric rivals Liverpool if they suffer to Arne Slot's league leaders successful their adjacent Premier League crippled connected Sunday

Pep Guardiola has told his Manchester City players to marque Liverpool gain their Premier League crown if they suffer it this season.

City person fallen 8 points down Liverpool up of Sunday’s showdown astatine Anfield and the Reds are the bookies’ favourites to triumph the league. Guardiola’s City person won a record-breaking 4 titles successful succession and helium called connected his players, who person mislaid their past 5 games, not to manus it to Liverpool.

When asked what a bully play would look similar from this point, the City brag said: “I don’t know. By our standards, it volition beryllium a atrocious season. We travel from determination [top] truthful we tin lone spell down if we lose.

“It’s nice. I deliberation we merit immoderate patience erstwhile we suffer games. It volition not beryllium a large mess. You are defending a legacy, tradition, occurrence and that is truthful hard to handle.

“If we don’t bash it, effort to absorption connected abbreviated periods of clip and triumph the adjacent games. What I privation is committedness from the players to inactive bash what we person to do.

“We volition congratulate the squad that takes our crown due to the fact that they merit it, not due to the fact that we present it to them, springiness it to them. We person to beryllium ourselves successful each grooming league and each crippled to bash what we person to do. This is the lone mode I know.”

City look Feyenoord astatine the Etihad time nighttime and they request to triumph with investigating trips to Juventus and Paris St Germain inactive to travel if they privation to decorativeness successful the Champions League apical 8 and debar a play-off successful February. Guardiola insists helium won’t alteration tact successful the look of his worst losing tally arsenic a manager, aft losing 4-0 to Tottenham connected Saturday, due to the fact that his methods person worked successful the past.

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The Catalan has won 18 trophies successful his 8 years astatine the Etihad and said: “What should I change? We are large believers successful the process and the fundamentals we person to do.

“Injured players person to travel backmost to their champion form, players who person played a batch of minutes due to the fact that of the injuries request rest. One bully effect tin alteration our caput and we judge profoundly that erstwhile we are winning a batch this volition walk and close present this shall pass. Nothing is eternal.

“The infinitesimal we commencement winning again, I was reasoning we volition commencement to suffer games. It’s antithetic fundamentally due to the fact that this squad won a batch during galore years.

“In this situation, we person to spell much nonstop to our principles, alteration little than ever due to the fact that astatine the extremity we had 26 shots against Spurs. We had much expected goals than them, we created a batch of chances.

“But determination are departments wherever we’re not beardown capable and that’s wherefore erstwhile we suffer successful definite situations they’re stronger than america and we person to tally backwards due to the fact that our 4 cardinal defenders are not there. They are inactive not acceptable due to the fact that they are injured.

“One time we’re going to triumph a crippled and our caput volition beryllium clear. I anticipation that volition hap connected Tuesday, if not Sunday. The tendency is determination and we’re going to try.”

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