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Guardiola says Swansea can’t be taken lightly

Pep Guardiola has warned his Manchester City stars Swansea City could provide them with one of their hardest games over the remainder of the Premier League season.


The relegation-threatened Welsh club have recorded back-to-back league wins under new manager Paul Clement, including an eye-catching 3-2 victory against City’s title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.
Guardiola believes Clement, the former Bayern Munich assistant coach, has made a huge impact and says his own team will have to be at their best to break their visitors down.
“I am really impressed. I saw their game against Liverpool,” the City manager told reporters on Friday. “Today I started to watch the game against Southampton.
“I tried to discover the way to attack them and, wow, I couldn’t find it. It’s so complicated. When I see their games, I can see his hands on it.
“They are so well organised. There is no space in the middle. When you go and attack outside they defend really well in the box.
“Then they have long balls to the striker with (Fernando) Llorente. They have quality players for the counter-attack.
“It will be a real tough game, one of the toughest until the end of the season. Now they are in a good moment, won three of the last four.
“They won at Anfield, Southampton — against big teams. It will be really tough, but hopefully we can be two games in a row winning and stay there.”
City were the only team in the top six to win their mid-week fixture, which saw them move level on points with fourth-place Liverpool, 10 points below leaders Chelsea.
Guardiola faces two key selection decisions over whether to recall goalkeeper Claudio Bravo and striker Sergio Aguero after both were left out of Wednesday’s 4-0 win at West Ham United.


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