Manchester City take on Liverpool in the Premier League this Sunday but the war of words between the two managers has already begun.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has now hit out at Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp for his comments regarding the Coronavirus break.
The German revealed during his pre-match presser that Manchester City have had ample time off because of the Coronavirus situation and their players had the time to recover and freshen themselves up.
In reality, Manchester City have had a more congested fixture lineup as compared to Liverpool and the Reds have enjoyed a couple of breaks since the start of the season instead.
Guardiola explained that he will confront the Liverpool manager when the two meet on Sunday regarding his comments and he also revealed that he did not expect such remarks from a manager like Jurgen Klopp.
“He made a mistake – it was two months off, or three months off?” City’s manager said sarcastically. “No, four. Four months off. That’s why we are in top form right now. Jürgen has to see the calendar again. We had Covid, we had one week and we played with 14 players at Stamford Bridge.
“But maybe I’m wrong and it was not two weeks, it was three or four weeks. Tomorrow when I see Jürgen I’ll say to him: ‘How many weeks or days were we off?'”
“Play football, recover, train, recover, using every single minute each day,” said Liverpool’s manager. “We didn’t have a break – I think City had a two-week break for Covid reasons. It’s really tough. It’s a tough season; I know for some teams it looks less.”
Both teams will be desperate to win on Sunday and it will be interesting to see who comes out on top.
Manchester City will undoubtedly be the favourites because of their current front of form and Liverpool are going through a rough patch right now.
