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Pep Guardiola uses the 2005 Champions League final to remind his Manchester City players not to take anything for granted.
The defending Premier League champions returned to winning ways at Bournemouth with a 4-1 win that moves them back to within two points of Arsenal having played one game more; Arsenal had beaten Leicester 1-0 earlier on Saturday. City have lost the advantage they gained by winning at the Emirates this month, although there is still a long way to go in the title race.
City know how to win a league title from behind at this point of the season, and their experience is still seen as a potentially significant factor against a Gunners side full of hunger and quality but short of medals. With Arsenal having lost to the Blues twice already this season and still to visit the Etihad in the league, there is plenty of time for things to change.
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Guardiola would like to think that experience can help his team, but has been in football long enough to know that it doesn't always go how everyone expects it to go. That was certainly true back in 2005, when Liverpool overturned a 3-0 half-time deficit against a star-studded AC Milan side in one of the biggest comebacks in the history of the game.
"I would like to say yes [it can help us] but I don't know. Every season is completely different," said Guardiola. "Always I put an example to my players about this kind of thing. Experience with the Champions League final with Milan and Liverpool.
"Liverpool make a good comeback. Milan in that period, it was 3-0 at half time, Milan had more experience in the line-up than I have ever seen with [Paolo] Maldini, Cafu, Duda, Carlo Ancelotti, and they lost.
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