Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola hints at Liverpool concerns

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has hinted that the Citizens may struggle to keep up with Liverpool in the Premier League title race. The two giants come face-to-face in next weekend at Anfield but City will be without a number of key stars through injury, including Aymeric Laporte, Leroy Sane, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Rodri. “The problem for the short term, we can handle it. For a long time, I don't know,” Guardiola said. “Of course against top, top, top, top teams when you don't have players playing in their own position, I don’t know what's going to happen. “We don’t have Fernandinho for the Carabao Cup [through suspension], we have to play another one. We have an academy and we have other solutions, and when the spirit is correct and you want to help, always you go through. It is what it is. These situations exist in football, especially in one season, one long season.”

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