Manuel Pellegrini, Manchester City manager admitted that he is not going to take his cross town rival United easy in the race over the Premier League title.
City, have so far managed to keep the red devils 10 points away with a safe lead of 5 spots for a halfway completion of the season.
But despite United’s trouble standing firm this season, Pellegrini believes United will continue “fighting to the end”.
Pellegring continued:“The major rivals are the teams that are very near. Arsenal sit top, one point on top of us and Chelsea is one point behind.”
“But we are absolutely sure Manchester United will continue fighting to the end, because they are used to doing it, and Liverpool and Everton are teams that will continue fighting to the end.
“They play very well, both teams, so maybe five or six teams can fight for the title.”
City who are in safer side by acquiring the second spot in the Premier League and also having a clean shot over the Champions League believes their tasks are not going to be easy.
But Pellegrini said that his squad must continue to build on their current form if they are to avoid any lapses of concentration.
“It is going very well of course, we are in a very good moment,” Pellegrini continued. “But we are just in the middle of the season, we are just preparing for a good (end to the) season.
“We have very important games in the games in the coming days because all the games are knockout, except Premier League, which will be a very close until the end of the year.
“We must win here against Blackburn Rovers or we are out of the FA Cup.
“Maybe in the Capital One we have made a big step towards the final but in February we start again in the Champions League.
”It is very important to continue and to understand we must continue in the same way.”