Pep Guardiola snubs Arsenal and names Man City’s biggest rivals for the Premier League title

Pep Guardiola doesn’t consider Arsenal are Man Metropolis’s greatest rivals for the title (Image: Getty)

Pep Guardiola has dismissed present leaders Arsenal as the largest menace to Manchester Metropolis’s Premier League crown.

The Gunners have made a close to faultless begin to the brand new season and their title credentials had been underlined by final weekend’s win over Liverpool, which got here scorching on the heels of a formidable north London derby victory.

Jurgen Klopp’s facet have gone toe-to-toe with Metropolis in latest seasons and have twice completed as runners-up by a solitary level.

The Reds, nonetheless, have began the present marketing campaign a shadow of their standard selves and are at the moment 14 factors off the tempo following their defeat the Emirates.

Liverpool may have a chance to claw themselves again into the race after they entertain Metropolis and Anfield on Sunday and Guardiola isn’t prepared to write down the Merseysiders off simply but and believes they nonetheless symbolize his facet’s greatest rivals for home supremacy.

‘Liverpool have at all times have been [Man City’s biggest challengers],’ mentioned Guardiola forward of Sunday’s acid check.

‘I do know the standard they've. If it was like this with 10 video games left, I might say I don’t assume they'll catch, however now something can occur.

‘It’s at all times troublesome within the years since we've arrived right here collectively, it is going to be a troublesome recreation and I don’t anticipate the rest.

‘The sport might be dictated on the pitch, not by the desk, as a result of we're in entrance of them or behind, not due to these sort of issues.

‘I do know the standard they've, they know the standard we've. If this was with three video games left, I might say they may not catch high of the league however with so lengthy left plus a World Cup, something can occur.’

Guardiola’s future, in the meantime, is more and more changing into an intriguing sub-plot with the Spaniard but to commit his long-term future to the membership he joined six years in the past.

Addressing that topic at his pre-match press convention, he mentioned: ‘You realize I'm not pondering one second about that.

‘We've two or three weeks till the World Cup and this is a crucial time. After that we've loads of time to speak about that.’

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