City’s season is like first under Pep – De Bruyne

KEVIN De Bruyne has told Liverpool they will be worthy Premier League champions when they eventually wrap up their first league crown in 30 years.

Liverpool, who have won all but one of their league games this season, need just 12 points from their final 11 games of the campaign to secure the title.

City won the league in each of the previous two campaigns but are 22 points adrift going into March and De Bruyne thinks the Blues have made too many mistakes in their pursuit of a third successive title.

“We’re performing well but we’ve lost too many points,” City midfielder De Bruyne told Sky

Sports. “It feels a bit like the first season with Pep where we were playing good football but we were making too many errors.

“There are games where you think you are fully in control and then the last five or 10 minutes, we basically gave it away and in this period where Liverpool are not dropping any points, every point you drop is too much.

“Even if we did better, I think the way Liverpool are performing this year and winning basically everything, they deserve to win and be champions.

“I don’t think there is a level of frustration with Liverpool because you just have to applaud what they are doing. It’s also the same as what we had for the last two years – if you have that many points and win that many games, there’s not a lot the opposition can do and I know they’re just going to control what they do themselves.

“The only frustration we’ve had is making too many mistakes and it’s nothing to do with them [Liverpool], it’s more that we know if we didn’t make these mistakes, it [the league] would be closer.

“We also accept it because you know how hard you have to work to be that good and there’s a lot of respect from both sides to each other. If they win it this way, that’s how it has to be.

“We know the league is gone but I would say win all the rest.”