Kevin De Bruyne admits Manchester City’s hectic schedule could threaten their Premier League title hopes – but will happily congratulate Liverpool should they win the championship.
City are aiming to complete an unprecedented quadruple having already claimed the League Cup with a penalty shoot-out win over Chelsea at Wembley at the weekend.
Like Liverpool, Pep Guardiola’s side are still in the Champions League but also have an FA Cup quarter-final on the horizon at Swansea City.
That date has already seen the Manchester derby at Old Trafford pushed back until late April, while further progress in the FA Cup will see another game having to be rearranged.
City currently trail Liverpool by a point with 10 games remaining and of talk regarding a clean sweep of honours De Bruyne said: “It can be done.
“There are still ten games in the Premier League, a long way to go, and Liverpool are still there, so we try to win game by game.
“We don’t know where we will end up. We want to win every game, but with the schedule being so tough it gets difficult.”
De Bruyne, a boyhood Liverpool fan, admits he expects the championship battle to remain nip and tuck during the remaining weeks.
“If we keep winning and they keep winning it goes to the wire, but if we win every game until the end of the season and it’s not enough you just have to congratulate Liverpool, as they will win with 99 points,” he said.
“There’s not a different atmosphere in the dressing room as we are probably on the same level as we were then – but last year we were 12 points ahead, and now we are one behind.
“That shows Liverpool are doing well.”