Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola insists they're prepared for a busy season run-in.

City now play twice a week for the rest of April.

But Guardiola maintained big clubs cope with the problems piling up for him as the business end of the season approaches.

“The big clubs are what count in these situations: not complaining," said the Spaniard. “Saturday was so tough for many reasons - for many, many reasons - and we overcame it. The players know what I mean and that is the point.

“The big clubs don't go there, and here or whatever saying 'no, we lose for that (reason)', or 'we didn't play for that (reason)'. We know the reason we didn't play quite excellent, we know it and the situation is a tough situation we have.

“Every day we lose players. I don't know if Kyle Walker will be fit. We are what we are but you know, when you play this amount of games in all competitions because when you win the Carabao Cup you play a lot of games before and the other teams are out.

“So that's normal. I remember with Barcelona I played a final in the Champion League against United in Roma and in the back four were three players, normally important players, who were injured.

“When you make this kind of run you have to handle that and we are going to try and do it again on Tuesday."