Bernardo: We’ve blown Reds out of title race

CITY HAVE ENDED UNITED’S CHANCES OF TITLE BID WITH DERBY WIN SAYS BERNARDO

CITY have dealt a damaging blow to United’s hopes of winning the Premier League says Bernado Silva.

The Blues opened up a 12-point lead over Jose Mourinho’s men with a deserved 3-1 derby win at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.

It was United’s fourth defeat in 12 games and left them eighth in the table.

City manager Pep Guardiola had said before the game United could not be written off as challengers even if they lost, but Silva thinks otherwise.

He said: “It won’t be easy. Not only Man City - United are 10 points from Liverpool, a lot of points from the other ones as well.

“They need to be almost perfect and wait for the other ones to lose a lot of points. I think it won’t be easy.”

City have dropped just four points this season and have scored 36 goals from 12 games, conceding just five.

At this stage last year, however, they already had an eight-point lead at the summit. This time they are just two clear of Liverpool.

“We know it won’t be easy this season,” Silva said.

“Liverpool are doing a fantastic Premier League as well.

“We want to try to and have a bigger gap during the months of December and January, where you have a lot of games.

“We will work very hard for that and try to improve on this.”