Graeme Souness

How can they break a team down that weren't really pressing them?

The game had no tempo about it, but it was still going up a gear to make sure they found a way to put the game to bed.

And then when you look at City's team, the squad that they've got, and that's what Pep did at the start of the season, they already rotated their team in the FA Cup.

And you look at the players that came back into that game, you had Karl Walker come into that, you had Kevin De Bruyne.

Again today, he's rotated, but look at the players he's bringing in.

So I don't see it as a distraction.

Do you know, I don't think he's looking at that.

He's looking at the moment, what Graham's talking about, is controlling the controllables.

We don't know what Liverpool are going to do, if they're going to drop points, but what we can do, as City I'm talking about, is go out there every week, be ruthless, like they did today, put the game to bed, and that's all that they can keep on doing.

I think definitely the most difficult.

This is the hardest we've had to work for a result.

But, you know, we put in a lot of work today.

The second half was more difficult than the first half, but it doesn't matter now that we got the three points.

So we go home now and prepare for the next game.

It was his fault.

He's bailed you out, hasn't he, Marcus?

I see.

Yeah, we played a slightly different system but against a team like this it was needed because the other teams that we've played have played pretty much the same system so today was a different game and we prepared different for it and the tactics changed but this is what we have to do to beat the top teams, we have to adapt and we keep pushing and keep improving.

I think it's a good responsibility, but I think since this manager's come in, everyone's chipped in.

To date, it wasn't about the goals, it was about the keeper today and the amount of saves that he's made is tremendous, but we know that we have that at the back with David.