Get up and go! Guardiola believes his Manchester City side need to match Liverpool’s intensity at the Reds’ Anfield fortress on Saturday on the off chance that they are to abstain from terminating the year on a flattening note.
The Spaniard has delighted in blended fortunes in his brief rule at the Etihad, an astonishing 10-coordinate winning start and a splendid Champions League win over Barcelona having run as an inseparable unit with some unconvincing, absent-disapproved of performances.
However in the event that he can end the year by crashing wild Liverpool with a fourth consecutive league win – and their first at Anfield for 13 years – it would offer an auspicious indication of why Guardiola was always seen as the man to raise City to another plane. He went to Anfield this week to watch his hosts’ gigantically impressive decimation of Stoke City and may have been excused a gentle shudder of apprehension while reviewing how his side had come apart at Leicester City prior in the month. “Liverpool are contenders for the title, definitely,” a Guardiola said. He further added and said, “I don’t know what will happen tomorrow, but I know we have to equal their intensity. Anfield will play a big role tomorrow but what happens in the past stays in the past.”
Just as Klopp is an enthusiast of Guardiola, the Spaniard has since a long time ago discussed his esteem for the previous Borussia Dortmund mentor with whom he crossed swords in the Bundesliga when he was at Bayern Munich.
However he too has no opportunity to engage the possibility of personal duels when whatever he can see is a table loaded with live title contenders.
“There are six teams fighting for the title, especially for the first four positions for Champions League qualification,” he said.
“The contenders are all really good teams so it will be a good fight until the end of the season.”
