Manuel Pellegrini said his side were in charge of their own destiny after a 4-1 win at home to Southampton on Saturday. Victory left City just a point behind Liverpool, who play West Ham today and two behind current leaders Chelsea, with Pellegrini's men having two games in hand on both of their title rivals come the end of this weekend.

Now City travel to face Liverpool next weekend knowing that if they win all their remaining seven matches, they will be champions.

“We just depend on ourselves until the end of the season — it’s important to continue playing the way we did in the second half because I thought it was a great performance,” Pellegrini told the club's website..

“We are enjoying a very good second round of fixtures where the results are much better than the first half,” the Chilean added.

“We’ve had four wins and one draw in our last five games — maybe we had low performances in the month of February and at the start of March but I think that now the team has come back to its best performances.”

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