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LONDON, England – Barcelona's Pep Guardiola club have stopped Real Madrid from winning the title with the best points overall. He suggested his Manchester City team have to repeat this feat if they were to beat Liverpool this season.
Guardiola was in his second season at Camp Nou in 2009-2010 when Barca had 99 points to finish three points over Madrid, then led by Manuel Pellegrini, whose West Ham team had been beaten 4- 0 by City Saturday.
This season, City, which has a Premier League record with 100 points en route to the title, has taken 35 points in 13 opening matches, but Liverpool, second, is just two points behind on his best start ever. Campaign Prem.
Guardiola recalls the season in which he beat Pellegrini's La Liga team. He said the intense pressure had pushed the Barca to play his best football during his time and had ensured that there would be no complacency a year after the Catalan club claimed a historic Treble.
"I remember perfectly the harshness of this season," Guardiola said at a press conference. "With 96 points, Madrid and under Manuel were playing incredibly well, which is why it was so nice because we had achieved the 99 points of the previous year, when we won the Treble in Barcelona.
"That's why we kept that level at 99. That was fine, we did 99 points because someone from the back pushed us, and we knew that if we lost points, Madrid would win the title, which is why it helped us. "
Liverpool is pushing City this season and the Guardiola team has shown no signs of losing speed since the start of the season.
In Spain, Real improved his score two years later with 100 points under Jose Mourinho and Guardiola made a comparison with men's tennis where the best players in the world have set themselves a challenge to become even better.
"It's pretty similar with Nadal, Federer and Djokovic, no?" Guardiola added. "They put one better than the other because they know it.
"We need it as athletes, in sport, [the players] Know that I did not tell them but they know how good Liverpool is and they know we can not lose points, because if we do, Liverpool will win the league.
"We can say Liverpool or Chelsea or Tottenham and Arsenal as well." To compete, we need good close opponents [to us] and of course this season, we have it here and in Europe. "
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