Pep Guardiola: It is unrealistic to think we can chase down Liverpool

The Cityzens are 11 points behind the league leaders who also have a game in hand.

Manchester City's Pep Guardiola has insisted that it is 'unrealistic' to even think to catch Liverpool FC in the league. The revelation came after their heroic 3-1 win over second-placed Leicester City. The reigning Premier League champions are 11 points behind the league leaders Liverpool, who have a game in hand at the moment. Speaking to Sky, Guardiola said, "Hopefully Leicester will have a good performance against Liverpool in the next game but before that we've got to think about an extremely tough game at Wolves." [KH_ADWORDS type="3" align="center"][/KH_ADWORDS] "But I think it is unrealistic to think we are going to chase down a team who has 60 victories out of 70 games." "If they lose a few games and we win and win I don't know what will happen but I'm not optimistic they are going to lose four or five games in 10, 11, 12 games because they are such an incredibly strong team. "We just have to relax and play how we played against Leicester and try to win our games to secure Champions League qualification next season and after that, you never know." [KH_RELATED_NEWS title="Related News | ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW"][/KH_RELATED_NEWS] Apart from this, Guardiola also voiced his concern at the league's decision to ask Manchester City to play twice in less than 48 hours over Christmas. He wrote a letter to the Premier League complaining about the hectic schedule and that it could 'kill the players' due to fatigue and burn out. City will play Wolverhampton away on Friday at 7:45 pm and then will also host Sheffield United at 6 pm on Sunday. Pep Guardiola said to Telegraph, “I wrote a letter to the Premier League to say thank you and we are going to the fridge after Wolves to get ready for Sheffield United,” Guardiola said. “[Sunday was] a day off, we are training [on Dec.] 23 and 24. The night of the 24th is off. The morning of the 25th off. Then the 26th training and 27th [play] Nuno’s team.”