• Manager says Liverpool are ‘best team in Europe’
• City close gap to seven points before showdown
Pep Guardiola suggested Manchester City’s Premier League title defence would have been over if they had not beaten Southampton, while admitting it remains precariously balanced going into Thursday’s showdown with Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium.
City won 3-1 thanks to goals from David Silva and Sergio Agüero, either side of a James Ward-Prowse own goal, to cut the gap on Liverpool to seven points and improve on a run that had seen them lose three out of four games in the league.
Written by David Hytner at St Mary’s
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/dec/30/manchester-city-pep-guardiola-liverpool under the title “Pep Guardiola: Title race would be over had Manchester City not won”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
