Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola believes Manchester United have the potential to frighten any opponent.
City and United meet at Old Trafford on Tuesday night in the first leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final, with Guardiola hoping to avoid a repeat of the champions’ 2-1 home defeat a month ago.
At the Etihad, United were lethal on the break, going 2-0 up in the early stages and creating more chances before half-time.
City pegged them back in the second period but Nicolas Otamendi’s late reply was not enough to stop United emerging victorious.
Guardiola expects United to employ a similar approach – but he won’t change his tactics to counter United’s biggest strength.
“It will be quite similar,” Guardiola said. “Of course at Old Trafford it will be quite different to here, but they are a team that are built to run.
“When they can run they are one of the best teams, and not just in England, I would say, because of the pace they have – (Daniel) James, (Mason) Greenwood, (Anthony) Martial, (Marcus) Rashford and (Jesse) Lingard.
“I have the feeling they are going to run, one or two or three times, or as many times as possible, and we have to reduce the mistakes in the build-up. We have to be prepared for that but we have to do our game.”
“I am not going to prepare our game just thinking, ‘don’t let them run’.
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“We have to go there and try to score a goal, play our game and try to get a good result from there.
“Except the first minutes when we conceded three or four times when they could run, the rest of the game I liked a lot the game we played and the chances we created in many situations.
“I would like to play quite similar.”