Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has questioned whether Liverpool can handle the pressure of being Premier League leaders.

Boxing Day could prove to be a crucial day in the title race after results saw Jurgen Klopp's side extend their advantage at the top of the table to six points ahead of Tottenham, with City a point further back in third place after a 2-1 loss at Leicester condemned them to a second straight defeat.

"From January, February last season people said, 'The Premier League is over'. To live with that is not easy," Guardiola said.

"One month ago people said about [the match against] Liverpool and before [then] we had three or four games.

"Football is that you are able to win a lot of games and you are able to lose a lot of games. When I was at Barcelona for one period I lost four games in a row."