Man City starlet Phil Foden has rubbished suggestions that Liverpool are out of contention for the Premier League title this season ahead of Pep Guardiola's team coming to Anfield on Sunday.
Liverpool are seven points behind Man City as the table stands, but the Reds have played a game more than their rivals.
Man City's game in hand comes against Everton on February 17, the day after Liverpool play RB Leipzig in the Champions League last-16.
"At the start, we weren’t on top and everyone wrote us off, saying we had dropped too many points, but we stuck together and now we’re on top - so it shows how it can change," Foden told BBC Sport.
"We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves - we have to just think about the next game. It’s so easy to drop points.
"There isn’t really a home advantage [this season] and it has been a strange year.
"They [Liverpool] are such a great team and have great players. We know they can go on a run themselves. It’s going to be a great game.
"You see how strong Liverpool have been in recent years and I still see them as a danger - also [Manchester] United are playing well.
"But we just have to focus on ourselves."
With so many teams so close together at the top end of the Premier League table, anything can still happen at this stage of the campaign.
Man City are current favourites but they have a harder run-in than Liverpool do.
After coming to Anfield, they face Tottenham, Everton, Arsenal, West Ham and Manchester United in their following five fixtures.
They also face Swansea City in the FA Cup and Borussia Monchengladbach in the first leg of their Champions League tie in that period.
