Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has told off his opposition number for Sunday’s clash Jurgen Klopp following the latter’s recent comments suggesting that the Manchester Blues had accrued benefits of a two-week-long COVID-19 break.
Both English heavyweights square up against each other over this weekend at Anfield and leading up to the must-win fixture for his Merseyside outfit, Klopp had remarked that Manchester City’s recent run of unmissable form was due to their fixtures getting postponed earlier this season owing to an outbreak of the pandemic virus at the Etihad Stadium.
Guardiola, however, chose to refute such allegations as the Spaniard said that Klopp had misunderstood the situation before urging his managerial foe to check the calendar and verify the dates.
“He made a mistake, it was two months off, or three months off? No, four. Four months off,” said Guardiola, as quoted by the Express.
“That’s why we are in top form right now.
“Jurgen has to see the calendar again. We had Covid, we have one week and we played with 14 players at Stamford Bridge (on January 3).
“But maybe I’m wrong and it was not two weeks, it was three or four weeks. Tomorrow when I see Jurgen I’ll ask how many weeks or days were we off?”
