Diogo Jota has warned Manchester City that Liverpool are poised to pounce if they drop any points in the remaining seven games of the Premier League season. The Blues stayed a point ahead of their title rivals with the 2-2 draw at the Etihad Stadium last week, but Jurgen Klopp’s team will grab top spot with anything but a defeat against Manchester United tomorrow night.
Diogo Jota said: “We always want to win, but December is always a tough period when you play loads of games. Sometimes you don’t have enough time to rest, and we had some injuries as well, some sent off. It’s a hard period. You need to survive, of course. City got a little bit of an advantage in those periods, but then you regroup and go again.”
Jota indicated that Klopp had taken a leaf out of City’s book, when they hauled in Liverpool’s lead at the top by going on a 14-match winning streak at the end of the 2018-19 season to overhaul Liverpool and then hold them off and take the title.
Diogo jota said: “I remember Jurgen said that we were going on a mission to win every single game,” he said. “At the time, I think it was the Brentford game, so we just grabbed three after three after three. That’s what makes us close to the first place at this moment. Now, we need to wait for them to drop points again. We need to do our job, so that’s what we need to be focused on, because it is not easy to win seven Premier League games in a row.”
