Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker has suffered a serious muscle injury but Jurgen Klopp has claimed that it is not "season-ending" as they battle Manchester City and Arsenal in the Premier League.
16.02.2024 - 22:45 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Pep Guardiola laughed off Gary Neville's claims that Manchester City are boring by insisting that world football knows how good they are.
Neville said this week that he hadn't watched City's Champions League win over FC Copenhagen because he "felt a bit bored" and asked if the Treble winners had become unwatchable and boring. The former United defender referenced a Liverpool fan who suggested that Sir Alex Ferguson's team had been more entertaining.
Guardiola has masterminded a team that have won five Premier League titles out of the last six and this season they are on course to be top scorers in the division for a seventh consecutive year. After seeing the Blues come from behind to win their last four league games and keeping clean sheets in just a third of matches this season, the manager could not keep a straight face when asked about Neville's comments.
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"Thank you for the compliment," he said. "What can I say?! It’s so fine.
"Everything is so difficult in football. You have to do so many things to try to win games during many years. What these players have done for many years and this season as well is admirable. Hats off to my players. It’s just unbelievable the way that my players take [all of] our opponents seriously. It’s just unbelievable the way they are consistent.
"I had the same opinion before the Copenhagen team. It’s a really difficult team to attack if you are not perfect in many aspects of the game. If we didn’t then we cannot achieve what we did last Tuesday. We still have a game on Tuesday which we will take seriously so this is the only thing I can say to my
Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker has suffered a serious muscle injury but Jurgen Klopp has claimed that it is not "season-ending" as they battle Manchester City and Arsenal in the Premier League.
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