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Manchester City expect\u00a0Luton\u00a0Town to provide a difficult challenge when they meet in the FA Cup fifth round, manager Pep Guardiola said on Monday.<\/p>\nManchester City expect\u00a0Luton\u00a0Town to provide a difficult challenge when they meet in the FA Cup fifth round, manager Pep Guardiola said on Monday.<\/p>\n
City, who won their seventh FA Cup by beating Manchester United 2-1 in the final at Wembley last season<\/strong>, visit Kenilworth Road on Tuesday.They won 2-1 at\u00a0Luton\u00a0in the league in December but Guardiola believes the promoted club, who are third from bottom in the standings, are much-improved now.\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if you are playing a side at the top, bottom or middle of the Premier League. The challenge is to play without fear,\u201d Guardiola told reporters.\u201cThey play via direct channels, but they have the ability; they have improved a lot in their build-up play since we played them last. They now play really good with the ball.\u201cIt is a Premier League side away in the FA Cup, I would not expect it to be any different in all my years I have been here in England.\u201dCity cut the gap with league leaders Liverpool to one point after a\u00a01-0 win at Bournemouth\u00a0over the weekend.<\/strong>Eyeing a fourth successive league title, City are second in the table with 59 points, one more than third-placed Arsenal.Guardiola said the motivation to maintain their success after a treble-winning campaign remains the same.\u201cI don\u2019t have any doubts that we are going to try. There are just two, two-and-a-half months of the season remaining and we arrive here,\u201d the Spaniard added.\u201cFrom tomorrow, every game we play is like a final<\/strong>: the decisive part of the season is here, and we are going for it.\u201cWhen you play in the last 16 of any competition, we know how difficult it is, but it is a good test to find our rhythm, our mental consistency. To know what we have in the next month, everyone knows what we have to play for.\u201dAs City prepare for the title run-in, they have received a boost with winger Jack Grealish and defender Josko Gvardiol closing on a return to action after sustaining injuries.\u201cWe train this afternoon but I think everybody is fine,\u201d Guardiola said. \u201cGvardiol is good, I don\u2019t know, but he is training without much pain.\u201dFollow the Manchester City, who won their seventh FA Cup by beating Manchester United 2-1 in the final at Wembley last season, expect Luton Town to provide a difficult challenge in the FA Cup fifth round. They previously won 2-1 against Luton in the league in December. City reduced the gap with league leaders Liverpool to one point after a 1-0 win at Bournemouth, placing them second in the table with 59 points, one more than third-placed Arsenal. City is preparing for the title run-in with winger Jack Grealish and defender Josko Gvardiol nearing a return to action after injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[426,3,935,336,250,348,470,337,618],"class_list":["post-3295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-competition","tag-cyprus","tag-fa-cup","tag-football","tag-google","tag-premier-league","tag-road","tag-sport","tag-top"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n
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