Gary Neville claims Pep Guardiola makes same mistake as Sir Alex Ferguson at Anfield

Gary Neville has claimed that playing Liverpool at Anfield has a similar impact on Manchester City boss, Pep Guardiola as it did on Sir Alex Ferguson.

And as a consequence, Neville believes that games at Liverpool’s home ground makes them act differently to how they’d normally set up.

The Spanish tactician was animated on the touchline during the Citizens’ first Premier League defeat of the season. After Phil Foden’s goal was disallowed for a foul in the build-up, he addressed the crowd and as Mohamed Salah spun Joao Cancelo, Guardiola can be seen slumped to his knees as the inevitable played out before his eyes.

Salah’s goal, 14 minutes from time, handed the league leaders their first defeat of the season as City and the 51-year-old’s torrid away record against the Reds continued.

Speaking on the Gary Neville Podcast, the former United defender noticed that the atmosphere and impact that Anfield had on Guardiola is similar to how Ferguson approached their meetings with Liverpool. He said: “Pep Guardiola was incensed, he was furious.

“In that first-half he was out of his technical area quite a lot. It’s like when I come here with Man United, coming into this game the manager was different, Sir Alex was different, he’d be more serious, that look in his eyes that was different.

“You come here and there’s very little talking before the game like today, even when you’re a really good side, you come here, that You’ll Never Walk Alone hits you and it’s different than most grounds.

“You come here and Pep Guardiola knows it’s as tough as it gets, I was on the touchline before kick-off and he was in the dugout, you do things here you don’t do elsewhere, you don’t see him doing that at away grounds.”