Pep Guardiola has seen enough from Liverpool to still consider them title rivals.
Manchester City are 13 points ahead of the Premier League champions with a game in hand after they beat Tottenham 3-0 hours after Liverpool had collapsed to a 3-1 defeat at Leicester.
Guardiola accepts that Liverpool are not as clinical as they were at either end of the pitch, and that the Blues will have to drop points if they are to be surpassed.
Liverpool's latest defeat caused Jurgen Klopp to rule his side out of the title race and concede they could not win the championship. However, Guardiola has been impressed enough by the quality shown by Klopp's side even in their recent poor form to still be cautious of them in the title race.
"From what I saw, the way they played today against Leicester, of course we have to lose games but of course they can do it.
"It is the same Liverpool that I met in the last years but in the boxes they are not as clinical as they were before. Football is boxes and sometimes you have that period where you have to create more to score and every time they arrive they score.
"Football is mood, feeling, not tactics sometimes. The quality of the team is still there.
"I don't think they drop the quality of press or play, they always create more than the opponent. I don't like to suffer against them but as a spectator, I always enjoy watching Liverpool."
