Liverpool news: Watching City is harder than playing – Mane

Sadio Mane claimed that watching Manchester City in action was more of a pressure than playing for Liverpool as the Premier League title race approaches its conclusion.

Liverpool were Leading the standings with an ongoing match in Manchester City before the international break, the Pep Guardiola team comfortably beat Fulham 2-0 at Craven Cottage to return to the top of the league.

And the Senegal The striker admits that watching City play and hoping for a breakaway from the defending champions can be more nerve-wracking than actually playing.

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"Of course, we are more focused on ourselves," said Mane Sky sports.

"But sometimes we look when Manchester [City] plays, we have more pressure than if we play ourselves!

"I want them to lose, and they are so good, and it's sometimes hard for them to lose."

Mane and Liverpool welcome Tottenham to Anfield in their next game in their toughest match of the rest of the season, but pacy striker warned that any of their last matches could make them miss.

"It might be [the toughest game], but people expect the only tough matches to be against the top six, but this is sometimes not the case because it's unpredictable.

"It could be Southampton, sometimes you win easily with the top six, and sometimes you get a tough game, but it's the same for the teams at the bottom of the table.

"So it would be a little ridiculous to say that Tottenham would be the biggest game."

Mane also called for calm around the drought of Mohamed Salah, the Egyptian having not found the bottom of the nets in seven matches.

"The people around the club talk about Mo because he scored almost every game.

"It's almost normal because it's football, but we all know it as someone who is very, very relaxed about the situation, sometimes it can happen.

"But I would especially like to see him smile by scoring goals – we are trying to help him score more goals for him."