Pep puts City on Red alert

Pep Guardiola has warned his Manchester City stars that Manchester United are capable of wrecking their treble dreams in Saturdayrsquos FA Cup finalCity will arrive at Wembley this weekend hoping to complete the second part of their incredible bid to win the Premier League Champions League and FA Cup in a single season After facing bitter rivals United in the first allManchester FA Cup final City travel to Istanbul to play Inter Milan in the Champions League final on June 10Guardiolarsquos sole focus this week has been United who stand in the way of the clubrsquos attempt to emulate their neighboursrsquo historic treble triumph in 1999United are the only other English club to have won all three major trophies in one campaign and Erik ten Hagrsquos men would dearly love to stop City moving closer to matching their achievementPep GuardiolaGuardiola is well aware Ten Hagrsquos team have enough quality to hurt them if they are not at their best Guardiola personally watched Unitedrsquos recent 41 rout of Chelsea while memories of Cityrsquos 21 defeat at Old Trafford in January still haunt the SpaniardldquoI am more focused on United right now I saw their game against Chelsea I was really impressed and I have started to review a little bit what they did to us in the game at Old Traffordrdquo Guardiola said ldquoAs in the past we have to be careful I would be careful anyway but after Thursday and their games recently we are going to prepare the best we canrdquoHaaland crucial for CityInevitably Erling Haaland will be Cityrsquos key man at the end of a brilliant first season in England The Norway striker has scored 52 goals in all competitions including a singleseason record 36 in the Premier League That was another notable achievement in an impressive first season for Ten Hag who ended Unitedrsquos sixyear trophy drought with a League Cup final victory against Newcastle in FebruaryUnited are relishing the opportunity to ruin Cityrsquos treble hopes even without injured forward Anthony Martial ldquoOf course we know itrsquos a big final a special game Wersquove been the whole year fighting to be in that position to win titles We will try absolutely everything to try to winrdquo United keeper David De Gea saidMeanwhile Ten Hag is confident United have the squad strength to beat arch rivals City ldquoWe have a good squad and from that good squad we make a good teamrdquo United are looking to complete the domestic cup double for the first time having lifted the League Cup in February ldquoWe want to win we want to win a cuprdquo Ten Hag saidTen Hag confident of winldquoItrsquos not about stopping them It is about that we win that we win the cup We have a great opportunity Thatrsquos great that we deserved that opportunity to be in the cup final and then meet Man City Thatrsquos a great opportunity We fought so hard for it I think we progressed that well that we are in that FA Cup final ldquoThey play very good football so they deserve it Of course I look at others because they are opponents and I evaluate it but we look to ourselvesrdquo he said ldquoWe make very good progress we are in a good direction and now we use the coming period as wellrdquoAlso Read Manchester City vs Manchester United live streaming How to watch FA Cup FinalThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever