Guardiola: We left Liverpool ‘alive’

London (dpa)
Manchester City coach Josep Guardiola seemed to regret his team’s wasting the opportunity to kill the competition for the English Premier League title this season, after its 2-2 draw with its guest Liverpool, at the top of the 32nd stage of the competition.
Guardiola indicated that the result of the match left Liverpool “alive” in the title race.
Manchester City missed their lead twice in the match, through Belgian Kevin De Bruyne and Brazilian Gabriel Jesus, after Liverpool tied Diogo Jota and Senegalese Sadio Mane, to end the meeting with the same result as the first leg match that took place between the two teams at Anfield, the stronghold of the Red Team in October. the past.
The competition for the title between the two teams remained unchanged, as Manchester City remained at the top with 74 points, one point ahead of its closest rivals, Liverpool, so that the fierce competition between them continued 7 stages before the end of the season.
Guardiola believes that his team had the opportunity to finish the race for the title – in practice – after his team imposed its dominance over most of the first half.
Guardiola said, “It was a great match from both sides, and every team is trying to win every match in all competitions.” I had a feeling that with this result we missed an opportunity, and I feel like we left them alive.
And Guardiola added: But I told the team I don’t want one second of sadness. I am very happy and happy with the way we played. When you do a lot of good things, the sadness is there, but I said to the same (forget it). We did very well and unfortunately we couldn’t win. Overall the performance was good, I was happy and pleased with my team.
As a result, Guardiola stressed that the race is still wide open and there is no room for error.
The Spanish coach said: “Win, lose or draw will not end it, I had the feeling before, but both teams knew that the points of the meeting are very important and we played for that.” We know that at the moment if we lose any game, we will not be champions, and we also know that if we lose points we will not be champions.
Guardiola concluded: “They should also win all the games, but today all the City and Liverpool fans will see that both teams tried to win the game.” I think it’s good to say that. I would watch the punches, we would attack them and they would attack us with our weapons, which is good for football.