'You are wrong' - Pep Guardiola hits out at Man City expectations

Pep Guardiola has warned against an overreaction to Manchester City's draw with Chelsea.

The Premier League champions dropped two points at home on the same day that title rivals Liverpool and Arsenal racked up big wins to leave the Blues in third. Having built up serious momentum with a run of 11 straight victories in all competition, City will now have to bounce back.

Guardiola rejected any idea that they had suffered a significant setback though and suggested that City were having to put up with the unfair expectations that they would win every game. Having reacted to Gary Neville claiming that the Blues were boring last week by pointing out how difficult it was to win the league, Guardiola returned to that theme ahead of the match with Brentford.

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"I know our standards and we demand them from what we have done in the past. It is not easy to sustain for a long time - we did it but it's not easy," said Guardiola.

"We drew against Chelsea at home and now we have to do it. We won 11 games and people said they're not going to lose another game. Now the subject is changed completely after just one draw when we were who we are for 60 minutes.

"You demand to us all the time - the only team - because we have achieved what we have achieved. We have to live with that.

"It's your comments in the past in the last month and you are wrong. We know how difficult it is. It's you who believes it is easy, not us."

City will look to move within a point of Liverpool at the top of the table by beating Brentford for the second time in a month. The home game is rearranged from December, when the