Pep Guardiola says no Man City title celebrations planned even if they beat Manchester United
City boss can wrap up his first Premier League win with victory over local rivals but return leg against Liverpool will stop him getting on the fizz
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PEP GUARDIOLA has no title celebrations planned - even if they his team beat Manchester United tomorrow.
City know victory over their rivals would be enough to give them a third crown since 2012.
But Guardiola will have one eye on the Champions League salvage mission against Liverpool on Tuesday night.
He said: "The celebration I'm not going to make any comments. We'll focus on the game then win, draw, we'll focus on Tuesday.
"We are going into it to win it. We have one eye on Tuesday though.
"The result will help emotionally to prepare for the game on Tuesday.
"It's good being in that position, where with seven games we need to win one or two.
"If we don't win we need to win two. Liverpool are almost done to go through, and our position is similar.
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"We have the chance and it's a derby. We didn't prepare to win it against united, we focus on what we have to do to win the game."
Guardiola says the door is still slightly open for them to overturn a 3-0 deficit from the first leg when they meet Liverpool.
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He said: "I reviewed the game and Liverpool played like always at Anfield, but the last 15 or 20 of the first half we were much better.
"The first 25 minutes and second half so good, we played a good game.
"We are thinking about recovering the players, playing in front of our fans, creating a good game to put under pressure as they're already qualified.
"We have 90 minutes. the door almost closed but a little bit open and maybe some space to get in."
City will give top scorer Sergio Aguero every chance to prove he has recovered from the knee injury that has kept him out for a month.
He said: "I don't know right now. we have training this afternoon and we'll see how his condition is."