Intensity is key for Pep

the halfway stage of the season – the biggest lead at Christmas in top-flight history.

And Guardiola said City, currently on 55 points and on course to beat Chelsea’s Premier League record of 95, will not tire in the campaign’s second half.

“Fatigue? I don’t think so,” he said. “It may happen, but we’ve a good enough squad.

“As a manager, I’m able to let them run at a high intensity. That’s a quality of the players I had in Barcelona, at Bayern Munich, and now here.

“We’re able to convince them how good it is going forward, being aggressive without the ball. Because, after that, we’re quick and take decisions with the ball.

“There’s no reason to say, if we’re able to do that in two years, why we cannot do it in the future.”