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		</div><p>Pep Guardiola believes Liverpool are showing the same hunger that carried Manchester City to the title last season – but has warned the pressure is tough to handle.</p>
<p>Premier League leaders Liverpool can open up a 10-point lead over defending champions City if they win Thursday’s clash between the two clubs at the Etihad Stadium.</p>
<p>The Reds are unbeaten and looking strong, as City were when they held a 15-point advantage at the same stage last year.</p>
<p>The City manager said: <em>“My feeling is last season it was a little bit easier to maintain that hunger because 80 per cent of the players had not won anything in our lives.</em></p>
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<p>&mdash; Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href="https://twitter.com/ManCity/status/1080469944515682304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><em>“I can feel what they feel, the Liverpool players. After 29 years not winning the Premier League, to be there to win the Premier League, I understand.</em></p>
<p><em>“I said to the players, that’s difficult to handle.”</em></p>
<p>City, who have lost three of their last five games, are now facing a different kind of pressure in having to chase down an opponent. Guardiola admits he does not know how his players will respond to that challenge.</p>
<p>He said: <em>“If it is different pressure, we have to live it, we have to handle it.</em></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Crucial match vs. Liverpool ahead ð¥â½ð¥<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/inSan%C3%A9?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#inSané</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LS19?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LS19</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MCILIV?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MCILIV</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ManCity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ManCity</a> <a href="https://t.co/3ywmpnAFsm">pic.twitter.com/3ywmpnAFsm</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Leroy Sané (@LeroySane19) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeroySane19/status/1080521421456097282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 2, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><em>“What do I think? Yes, we are ready. I (personally) don’t have doubts, but honestly I don’t know (for certain).”</em></p>
<p>Guardiola claims his team are now the underdogs against Liverpool, who have won their last nine games, but he has no intention of giving up the chase.</p>
<p>He said: <em>“I know today nobody trusts us, nobody makes one coin for us, but it is what it is.</em></p>
<p><em>“They are at the moment the best team in Europe, in the consistency, the way they control the details in their game. It is a good challenge for us if we’re going to reduce the gap.”</em></p>
<p>Liverpool won three of the four clashes between the sides last season, including both legs of their Champions League quarter-final. Guardiola insists that is irrelevant, as is his losing record against Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.</p>
<p>Guardiola has won just five of their 15 meetings, with the German victorious eight times.</p>
<p>He said: <em>“The past is the past. It’s the same with 100 points, it’s in the past. I’m not going to judge the game on the previous game.</em></p>
<p><em>“I don’t count the number of times I beat managers and feel how special I am. I don’t play against Jurgen or Jurgen against me. Our teams play. He beats me, I beat him. I won leagues and cups, I lost some cups.</em></p>
<p><em>“They’re an exceptional side, they’re Champions League finalists. With their results, what can you do? Hats off.</em></p>
<p><em>“We will try to beat them and that’s all. If we don’t I will congratulate them and move forward and learn for our game. But at least let us think that maybe we can win.”</em></p>
<p>City will give a late fitness test to Kevin De Bruyne, who missed Sunday’s win at Southampton with a muscular problem.</p>
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