Pep Guardiola believes Liverpool have an advantage over Manchester City.
The City manager explained that his side were unable to properly prepare for the 2020/21 Premier League season due to a lack of preparation time.
He claims the Carabao Cup holders are still unable to play a full 90 minutes as they play catch-up to their rivals as a result of having a long campaign last term due to competing in the latter stages of the Champions League.
Having failed to win their last two Premier League matches against Leicester City and Leeds United, City managed to record a narrow victory over Arsenal on Saturday thanks to a Raheem Sterling goal.
"Winning games help to win games," Guardiola said.
"We started really well against Wolves, we had a big blow against Leicester when we gave away three penalties after starting so well and at Leeds we played a good 30 minutes, the last 10-15 as well but we are still not there, we have not played 90 really well.
"We didn't have preparation, Liverpool and Arsenal started three weeks before us and we had three guys who had Covid and Bernardo injured.
"With the position we have it is important to win games.
"Now [Aymeric] Laporte is out again, [Benjamin] Mendy again, Kevin [De Bruyne] again. We cannot be 90 minutes in the top level but we did it."
