Pep Guardiola begins mind-games before Manchester United-City League cup semi-final derby

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola expects a repeat game plan from Manchester United in first leg of ir League Cup semi-final on Tuesday. United produced an exhilarating display of counter-attacking football to beat Guardiola's side 2-1 in last month's Premier League derby at Etihad Stadium.

"It will be quite similar"

y meet again in first leg of ir semi-final at Old Trafford this week and City boss Guardiola feels he kws what to expect. "It will be quite similar," said Guardiola. "Of course at Old Trafford, it will be quite different to here but y are a team that are built to run. "When y can run y are one of best teams, and t just in England, I would say, because of pace y have -- (Daniel) James, (Mason) Greenwood, (Anthony) Martial, (Marcus) Rashford and (Jesse) Lingard.

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"I have feeling y are going to run, one or two or three times, or as many times as possible, and we have to reduce mistakes in build-up. We have to be prepared for that but we have to do our game." United tore City's defence apart on numerous occasions on December 7 and could have had much more to show for ir efforts than first-half goals from Rashford and Martial.

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Nicolas Otamendi pulled one back late on but United held on to inflict a defeat that dealt ar blow to City's faltering Premier League title challenge. Despite United's win, City dominated in terms of possession and opportunities created and Guardiola did t feel his team did a lot wrong. Guardiola said: "I am t going to prepare our game just thinking, 'don't let m run'.

"We have to go re and try to score a goal, play our game and try to get a good result from re. "Except first minutes when we conceded three or four times when y could run, rest of game I liked a lot game we played and chances we created in many situations. "I would like to play quite similar." 

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