Liverpool star Sadio Mane tells Manchester City: ‘We won’t choke and we will be champions’

Liverpool star Sadio Mane tells Manchester City: ‘We won’t choke and we will be champions’
Sadio Mane insists Liverpool will hold their nerve and win the Premier League title this season.The Reds forward fired a bold message to title rivals Manchester City by insisting: “We won’t choke.”5

Sadio Mane has no doubt Liverpool will win the title

Liverpool are currently four points clear at the top of the league as they bid to end 29 years without top-flight glory.However, last time they found themselves in such a promising position, Steven Gerrard’s infamous slip against Chelsea was the start of a collapse which saw City clinch the title in 2014.And Mane has categorically ruled out a repeat of that painful episode.Sky Sports5

Steven Gerrard’s infamous slip helped hand the title to City in 2014

This is not a team of chokers. We will be champions,” he said.I am sure we will be champions of England.When I wake up, I dont go to the training ground thinking we will not win.We are determined to show we are the best team in the league. Only twice in the last ten years has a club failed to win the Premier League after being top at Christmas, and it was Liverpool both times in 2008/09 and 2013/14.But it will be 2014 which hurt the most, when the Reds were three points clear with three games to play.Mane, however, believes Liverpool have learnt their lessons in the five years since.5

Liverpool are bidding to end 29 years without top-flight glory

He added: It is not easy to hear people accuse the team of being chokers.But we have to ignore it and focus on what is in front of us.Liverpool had the chance to win it a few years ago and did not do it.5

Man City beat Liverpool 2-1 in a pulsating encounter

But I prefer to think it helped to bring us where we are now.This is not a team of chokers. I am sure we will win the league.City have sent a message of their own in recent weeks,beating Liverpool 2-1in a thrilling game at the Etihad before sweeping Wolves aside in a3-0 victoryon Monday night.5

Pep Guardiola knows the title is in Liverpool’s hands

Nonetheless, Mane insists his team have more quality than City this season.In an interview at the recent African Player of the Year awards in Senegal, he added: Last season, City won the league because they were better.But now are they better? I dont think so. We have a fantastic team Man City are not better than we are.I respect anybody who thinks they are better but that is not true and we will prove it. Liverpool are a big team and we want to compete for every trophy.

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