Pep Guardiola: Manchester City now believe

Pep Guardiola hopes the successes of the past week help him convince his Manchester City players they can win this season’s crunch games.

City thrashed a 10-man Liverpool side 5-0 last Saturday before opening their Champions League campaign with a 4-0 rout of Feyenoord in Rotterdam.

City struggled against their top-rivals last term and consequently failed to sustain a title challenge. On top of that they were unable to win away in the Champions League — play-off round aside — and crashed out at the last-16 stage.