Pep Guardiola says his Manchester City players will be tense ahead of their crucial game at Tottenham tonight – but he wouldn’t have it any other way.

City are going for a fourth Premier League title in a row and a sixth in seven years but the nerves still persist.

“We will feel the tension and the nerves. Of course we will
feel it, otherwise it would be a bad sign,” he told reporters.

“Every game I feel the right tension, but at the same time I focus on what to
do and read what is happening in the game.

“I try to not be so excited to take bad decisions and make my players a little
bit anxious for my behaviour; sometimes it happened unfortunately for me and the
team.

“I don’t think any competitive football player or manager is numb and relaxed,
saying: ‘It doesn’t matter’. Of course we know what we are playing for.

“It is like a quarter-final, semi-final second-leg Champions League or FA Cup.
It is something you can’t get back so it’s simple. Win – OK. Lose – bye, bye. So
not very complicated.”