Pep Guardiola insisted the title race is far from over after Manchester City tightened their grip on top spot at Brentford.
Guardiola’s defending champions took full advantage of their nearest challengers Liverpool and Chelsea both dropping points this week to rack up a 10th successive league win and move eight points clear after 20 games.
But City’s manager said: ‘There are 54 points to play for and so many more tough teams to play so when you put it in that perspective eight points is ridiculous. We were 4-0 up and in 20 minutes it was 4-3 three, four days ago [against Leicester] so all of you, thank you for your nice words because we win but I’m not going to believe any of the words you are going to say about you think it is already done.