Liverpool dropped out of the title race after losing to Crystal Palace in the middle of April, failing to keep up with the pace of Man City and Arsenal.
Pep Guardiola was asked about the Reds not being able to contend for the title until the final matchday this season. The Spaniard has passionately defended his rivals.
"Listen, in football, I saw Liverpool in the last weeks could not fight with Arsenal, but do you know the way they lost the chance to not fight until the end?” he said in a press conference, as quoted by Anfield Watch.
"I saw the game against Crystal Palace in the second half, the game against United, the chances they missed, it looks unbelievable! You cannot believe it!
“I saw, I asked: ‘Give me all the chances from Liverpool that they missed’. But they missed it without the keeper, [with a] keeper, nothing, and they missed it! And for that reason, they are not fighting until the end.
"They are losers? No. They are failures? No. They are an incredible, same team that fights against us in these many, many years, like last season, because at the end it’s tell me how this incredible, attacking players that Liverpool has don’t score a goal."
Liverpool will finish third this season and will return to the Champions League next term.
