Guardiola: Liverpool is still our greatest challenger for the title

Pep Guardilla believes Liverpool is still Manchester City's biggest opponent for the Premierliga title this season.

The Red “” will be executives of “citizens” on Sunday, on the 11th week derby at the English championship.

The team led by Jurgen Klopp has not started well in the 2022/23 season since it is currently ranked 11th on the table with 10 points collected by 8 events.

Liverpool is 12 points behind Manchester City, which is second and 13 points behind the leadership team, Arsenal.

Man City and Liverpool fought for title in the last four seasons in Premierliga, with those led by Pep Guardilla, who won the champion's title three times, while the “Red” were crowned champions for the first time in 30 years in the 2019/20 season.

While Klopp has dismissed thoughts that Sunday's confrontation is crucial to his team's title, Guardiola believes that Liverpool's current position on the table is insignificant and he thinks Liverpool “has always been and will always be the top” Manchester City rivals for the champion title.

Speaking at a press conference before the match Friday, Guardiola said: “Tabela never plays for a team, play will be dictated by what happens in the field, not that we are ahead or behind. It's always hard and it's been in these. It's gonna be a tough game, we're not gonna find out anything special that's”.

I know the quality they have and they know the quality that we have. If we have this question with 10 games, I would say that Liverpool cannot reach Arsenal. But with the World to develop anything can happen”, the Spanish coach added.

In recent years we fought for all the titles and we were close. We were a little better, especially on Premierliga. It's the same team, the same manager, things can happen. It's part of the nature of the race. I don't see the good times or the bad, I analyze them as a team, always expecting the best of them. Nothing changes the opinion that I have of them”, Guardilla said.