Pep Guardiola makes Liverpool Premier League title admission after Man City lose again

Manchester City person present been beaten successful their past 5 games and volition question to Merseyside trailing leaders Liverpool by 8 points if Arne Slot’s men triumph astatine Southampton

Pep Guardiola admitted that Manchester City's grip connected the Premier League volition beryllium implicit if they suffer astatine Anfield adjacent week.

The four-in-a-row champions person present been beaten successful their past 5 games and volition question to Merseyside trailing leaders Liverpool by 8 points if Arne Slot ’s men triumph astatine Southampton. Guardiola accepted that his team’s chances of retaining the trophy volition beryllium implicit if they endure a 4th successive league defeat.

City person won conscionable 3 times astatine Anfield successful the past 43 years and asked if a Liverpool triumph would beryllium decisive successful the rubric race, Guardiola said: “Yes. In presumption of Liverpool winning, winning, winning it’s true. I don’t cognize what is going to happen, but the world is present and we person to triumph games.

“People are saying it can’t get worse - but it tin get worse. The exceptional things we person done implicit the past 8 years are not eternal. I said however hard it was to bash the things we person done - and present radical mightiness judge me.

“We are a spot fragile close now, but we can’t tally away. We person to look it. I would similar to accidental determination is conscionable 1 crushed for losing 3 Premier League games successful a row. There are galore details that we person to fix."

James Maddison celebrated his 28th day by scoring doubly successful the archetypal half, earlier goals from Pedro Porro and Brennan Johnson completed the rout. This was City’s heaviest decision astatine the Etihad - and their worst nonaccomplishment astatine location since they were beaten 5-1 by Arsenal astatine Maine Road 21 years ago.

Guardiola had ne'er mislaid much than 3 consecutive games arsenic a manager earlier City’s signifier fell disconnected a cliff aft the 2-1 decision astatine the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium past month. And the past clip City mislaid 5 games connected the bounce was erstwhile Stuart Pearce was successful complaint successful the outpouring of 2006.

Tottenham brag Ange Postecoglou challenged his players to support the standards they produced successful the Manchester rain. Postecoglou said: “Today was astir doubling down connected our shot principles. It’s a important win. City person got an unbelievable grounds present astatine home.

“It isn’t thing you tin beryllium blase about. We person reached these standards earlier - present it’s astir not dropping. You don’t travel to a spot similar this believing it is going to beryllium arsenic convincing arsenic it was for us.

“City trial you successful each footballing mode possible. Defensively, moving hard, being disciplined and playing shot - and successful each 4 areas we got to a beardown level. We got backmost to our halfway beliefs arsenic a team. We knew they would truly travel retired due to the fact that 4 defeats had each been distant from location but we truly grew into the game.”

Man-of-the-match Maddison said: “That's a day I’ll look backmost connected rather fondly. To travel present to the champions and execute similar that and get the result. You person to cherish these ones, they don’t travel astir often.”

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