Pep Guardiola: Man City must ‘overcome absolutely everything’ at Liverpool

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Pep Guardiola has urged his Manchester City staff to be able to “overcome absolutely everything” as they head to Liverpool for a crunch title showdown.

The champions make the journey to Anfield on Sunday for a sport that would have an enormous bearing on the future of the Premier League crown.

The ambiance is prone to be intense with all of the stress that may deliver, for the gamers and particularly the referee, however Guardiola hopes his facet can rise above all of it.

“When that happens we have to perform better,” the City supervisor mentioned. “We cannot control what happens in these stadiums with the referees.

“We have to do better. It’s the only thing we can do. It’s not the first time, it will not be the last.

“We have to overcome these situations and to do the peak achievement, of trying to fight for the fourth Premier League in a row, that no team have done, never ever, this is the type of challenge we have to face – overcome absolutely everything.

“Otherwise will be difficult, in this case, to win on Sunday. But, whatever happens, I’m pretty sure we’ll perform well.

“And, whatever happens, still we’ll have many, many games to play. This is a really important game for the title challenge, but I still have the feeling that many things are going to happen.”

Guardiola has refused to get drawn right into a confrontation forward of the sport after Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold claimed profitable trophies meant extra to the Merseyside membership than City.

Guardiola insists what individuals exterior of the membership must say has no impression.

He mentioned: “We have a public job and the job cannot be done without the opinion of the external people, so it’s normal.

“There are good ones and bad ones, it’s not a problem. We have to live with that, we have to deal with that, otherwise you cannot be in that world.

“But at the end, inside of the ropes, we know who we are, what we have to do.”