Pep Guardiola makes Arsenal and Liverpool claim after Man City’s Champions League exit

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Pep Guardiola insists Arsenal remain the best team in the Champions League (Prime Video) Pep Guardiola believes Arsenal remain the best team in the Champions League and claims Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool has been the ‘biggest challenge’ of his career. Guardiola’s side now have the chance to win their first trophy of the season this weekend as they play Arsenal in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley.

And following his side’s Champions League exit, Guardiola believes Arsenal head into Sunday’s Carabao Cup final as the favourites. ‘We will challenge against the best team in England, so far, the best team in Europe, look at the results in the group stage, they have been the first, they’ve maybe lost three or four games this season,’ Guardiola said after City’s defeat to Real Madrid. ‘It’s the best, challenge them how we are, compete with them, we’ll have to see, after one or two weeks we play them in the Premier League and see. Manchester City have been knocked out of the Champions League by Real Madrid (Action Images via Reuters) Your football fix Metro's Head of Sport James Goldman delivers punchy analysis, transfer talk and his take on the week's biggest stories direct to your inbox every week.

Sign up here, it's an open goal. ‘Sometimes they are better so it’s a good mirror to see what we have to do beat them. It’s just a game, we’ll prepare, try to compete and see who we are. ‘In the end the results have not been good, except against Newcastle [in the FA Cup], but I’ve had the feeling we are an extraordinary team, we have many, many good things that I love to watch but we are still not complete, we are not aware in certain moments and departments that we have to be more clinical and still we are not.