Guardiola talks about Liverpool's weaknesses before the decisive confrontation
Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola has admitted that there are few weak points in Liverpool that his team can exploit.
And the British news agency “BA Media” reported that Manchester City, the league champion, hosts Liverpool, on Sunday, after Manchester City watched the points difference between them reduce to only one point.
City, although he played more games than Liverpool, was at the top of the table with a difference of 14 points, but Liverpool, thanks to 10 consecutive victories, was able to reduce the difference to one point, and Guardiola knows very well the strength of his opponent.
Guardiola said: "In the times when we face them there are always other games during the game, many decisions, many procedures, many details for the two teams."
“I think both teams are good, but we are trying to explore their weaknesses.
They are few, but we are trying to detect them.”
At the same time, we are playing at home and in front of our fans, so we have to play our way.
We have faced them many times already, not only in the Premier League, and they were all very close and good matches.”
Guardiola expects that there will be some difficult moments for Manchester City, but he feels that these are the moments that the fans will have a big role in.
Liverpool have not achieved any victory in the last five visits to the Etihad Stadium in the league, and Guardiola hopes the fans will help keep the stadium a difficult place for Liverpool players.
"We know we will defend part of the game and we will back down - not because we want to but it's almost impossible not to do that because of the way they play," Guardiola said.
"I hope our fans, and I'm sure, will support us in the bad times," he said.
They have to be there and be fierce in encouraging us in the bad moments that we are going to have.”
"I'm sure the players will respond because I saw that they were ready to take on the challenge that Liverpool would pose for us," he explained.
And Manchester City will miss the services of Ruben Diaz, who missed the team last month due to a thigh injury.
Kelly Walker will return to the team after he missed the match that his team won against Atletico Madrid last Tuesday in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League because of the suspension.
(DPA) JJ/M FM 9/4/2022
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