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Man City will only beat Liverpool to the Premier League title on ONE condition - pundit
MANCHESTER CITY will only have a chance of retaining their Premier League title if they remain unbeaten for the remainder of the season.
That is the opinion of ESPN FC pundit and former Chelsea midfielder Craig Burley.
Liverpool are currently four points clear of second-placed Manchester City at the top of the table.
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That is despite City beating Jurgen Klopp’s side 2-1 at the Etihad on Thursday.
The defeat was Liverpool’s first in the league this season and they remain favourites with the bookies to be top of the pile come May.
City might have to go all the way through unbeaten potentially to get that title
City have lost three matches compared to Liverpool’s one and Burley says they cannot afford to lose anymore.
“I don’t see Liverpool dropping many points,” he said.
“It might come down to injuries and suspensions to the squad because I just don’t [see them dropping points].
“City might have to go all the way through unbeaten potentially to get that title.”
Two of City’s defeats came in surprise fashion in the space of four days against Crystal Palace and Leicester.
And Burley says Liverpool will have to be careful not to have a run like that themselves, especially against relegation-threatened teams.
He added: “Palace at home and Leicester away for City, those defeats.
“We just didn’t see those coming. We did not see those coming.
“Now, have Liverpool got two or three of those in them?
“When it gets to a stage of the season where you’re fighting a team in the bottom four or five and that team can drop into the relegation zone and you’re away from home and it’s just an absolutely fistfight and everything else goes out the window.
“That’s when we’re going to find out.
“At this moment in time there is a leeway for certain teams but when it gets to half a dozen, eight, nine games left in the season, teams down the bottom, and I’ve been down there, are scrapping for their lives.
“You’ll do anything, you’ll do anything to get a point.
“And it’s whether Liverpool can still handle that if they’re still top.”