Manchester City vs Liverpool: Xherdan Shaqiri insists Reds’ focus is on winning Premier League game, not destroying City title hopes

Manchester City vs Liverpool: Xherdan Shaqiri insists Reds’ focus is on winning Premier League game, not destroying City title hopes
Xherdan Shaqiri says Liverpool are not viewing the Manchester City game as a chance to knock their rivals out of the Premier League title race.The two sides meet each other on 3 January, with the Reds seven points clear at the top of the table.Jurgen Klopp’s team go into the game at the Etihad having not lost a game and on the back of a 5-1 thrashing of Arsenal.

54 – Liverpool have accrued 54 points from their opening 20 Premier League games this season; when assuming three points for a win, only Chelsea (55 in 2005-06) and Manchester City (58 in 2017-18) have ever had more at this stage in English top-flight history. Elect? #LIVARS pic.twitter.com/JIDEhfKEDH— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) December 29, 2018

No team has ever failed to win the English top flight with such a lead coming into the new year before, but summer signing Shaqiri said the focus is simply on winning another league match.No, for us we dont go there to take Man City out of the race, we go there for a Premier League game, he explained.We go there tomake a good performance. Thats the only goal that we have. There are not other things in our minds at the moment. We just have to keep going, to work hard every day in training to win games. Im sure when we keep going like this we are going to be very successful.Of course theyre going to come after us and try to win, to grab three points. Its going to be a very interesting game, a good game. Were looking forward to this game to go and make a very good performance. Were also confident to try to win the game.1

Shaqiri insists he and Liverpool team-mates are viewing the Man City game as they would any other match

Liverpool have only won one of their last nine league visits to the Etihad Stadium, drawing three and losing five, with the win being a 4-1 triumph in Jurgen Klopps first away game against City as Anfield manager. They have conceded 20 goals in those nine away games.When you are first in the table everyone comes after you, everyone wants to beat you, so every game is very tough. We just have to keep going, to stay at the highest level, Shaqiri added. Man City manager Pep Guardiola has done his best to put pressure on Liverpool by saying they are the best team in the world right now.With the position of Liverpool, if we drop points then it is over, it is finished; it would be almost impossible,” he said.Of course they are going to drop points but not too many. If you want to be there as far as possible until the end, we have to remember what happened last season, and this as well, apart from the last few days.We won a lot of games but unfortunately we lost two and we have a rival who at the moment is the best team in Europe, or in the world.

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"We ignored it completely. I didn't mention it one time," Klopp said of City's 3-1 Saturday lunchtime win over Everton. "We know the table, just are you focused on it or not.
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Xherdan Shaqiri has found his feet at Anfield in recent weeks, and now the Liverpool new boy has fired a title warning to the club's high-flying rivals Manchester City.
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Liverpool Football Club has been here before. In 2014, the Reds' final Premier League fixture of the season was preceded by preparations for a title-winning party that never came to be.

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Xherdan Shaqiri says Liverpool are not viewing the Manchester City game as a chance to knock their rivals out of the Premier League title race. The two sides meet each other on 3 January, with the
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But Shaqiri insists now the focus is fully on the title race as Liverpool host Wolves on Sunday hoping Manchester City slip up at Brighton which would hand them their first English league crown in 29 years. The Swiss international said: "I have won the Champions League with Bayern Munich and I know what it is like to win this title.
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Just another match The two sides meet at the Etihad on 3 January, with Liverpool unbeaten in 20 games and sitting seven points clear at the top Xherdan Shaqiri says Liverpool are not viewing the Manchester City game as a chance to knock their rivals out of the Premier League title race.
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Manchester City vs Liverpool: Xherdan Shaqiri insists Reds' focus is on winning Premier League game, not destroying City title hopes Written by: fpnews Posted on: December 31, 2018 Xherdan Shaqiri says Liverpool are not viewing the Manchester City game as a chance to knock their rivals out of the Premier League title race.
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