'I just answererd' - Ruben Dias gives revealing response to Man City treble question

The clocks go forward this month but for Manchester City, it feels like time has stopped. Here we are back in March, with longer nights rolling in, and the Blues are chasing history again.

This is the fourth successive season that City have been chasing at least a treble with just a few months of the season to go. Just don't tell Pep Guardiola or his players, who are determined to stick to that classic footballing cliche of one game at a time.

So while Sunday's show-stopping showdown at Anfield is the contest everyone is counting down the hours to, the focus in the dressing room and at the training ground is on Wednesday night and a Champions League last-16 second leg against FC Copenhagen. City lead 3-1 before the Etihad return and to the outside world progression is a mere formality, but that sort of complacency won't drift into the squad.

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It is why, when Ruben Dias was asked about the Liverpool game as he stopped to speak to reporters after a 3-1 win in the Manchester derby, he turned the discussion back to Europe. In truth, that is a game that nobody listening really wanted to talk about, given what is on the agenda for later this week.

It was a year ago that this side finally secured a slice of history that had long seemed their destiny, lifting the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League titles. In the last three seasons before this one, they have won the title every season and reached at least the semi-finals of the FA Cup and Champions League.

That is the sort of consistency that leads to questions about trebles - or quadruples, quintuples, sextuples and so on,