Man City must keep cool and avoid Brentford traps to keep up Premier League pace

Manchester City take on Brentford looking to move to within a point of leaders Liverpool.

Dropping points at home to Chelsea has taken away the opportunity for the Blues to reach the Premier League summit, with attention now turning to them keeping pace with Jurgen Klopp's side to make sure they head to Anfield in March with the potential to do some real damage in the title race. To do that, they will have to beat Brentford for the second time this month after a 3-1 win in West London thanks to a Phil Foden hat-trick.

Foden will hope to be involved again to keep his streak of starts under Pep Guardiola going, and the manager could only be missing Jack Grealish and Josko Gvardiol for the game. Here are a look at the talking points for the match.

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'I don't want to talk about referees', said Rodri after Saturday's draw, before going on to moan about the decisions that had gone against City. Pep Guardiola said a lot in agreement while saying very little during his press conference.

Both men stressed they were not trying to make excuses for City not winning the game, yet it does need to be stressed that they cannot rely on getting decisions from officials if they are to win the league. The Blues have had as much success as they have by doing everything possible to take decisions out of outcomes, and they need to step up against Brentford.

Brentford are one of the best teams in the league from dead balls and it was a long kick from the goalkeeper that brought their goal against City last time out. Other than that, it was an excellent defensive performance and Guardiola