City are only third on goal difference but they now have a four-goal advantage on Liverpool.
City sit fourth in the Premier League, 15 points adrift of likely champions Chelsea with four games left to play.
ESPN's Gabriele Marcotti believes it was City's formation that saw them come out on top in Saturday's Premier League clash. "But we have two more games at home and one more game to play than Liverpool". "The others, no chance", the 46-year-old said.
Speaking about the team, Guardiola expects a good response from Mourinho. We are the best in the league at doing that, we create more chances than anyone, but we are not always able to score the goals.
"But we are the best team in the Premier League at creating clear, clear chances in front of goal - nobody can beat us at that".
"In the boxes, though, we are not so good. I said to the players, "Score a [second] goal or we don't win".
"Our problem is finishing these chances- this is the most hard thing in football".
Kompany, Kevin De Bruyne - who also hit the bar - Raheem Sterling and Nicolas Otamendi all got on the scoresheet.
Silva returned from a hamstring injury sustained during City's FA Cup semi-final defeat last month to open the scoring and turn in a virtuoso display, while De Bruyne took centre stage after the break with assists for centre-backs Kompany and Otamendi either side of a strike of this own. That game we arrived more than them but lost 4-0.
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"We deserved to get punished like we did", Allardyce said.
"I remember one game where the opponent created more chances". We've missed that this season a lot.
The stakes appear to be higher for the hosts, as the Champions League battle will be fierce over their last four games.
There is, though, the possibility that all three could still qualify, if United win the Europa League and finish fifth.
"We knew it was going to be tough but our performance was so full of errors and I didn't expect that".
"Hopefully United can focus on the Europa League and forget a little bit about the Premier League and then next season we can have five English teams in the Champions League, which would be incredible", he added. "It will be fantastic".
Nigerian forward Kelechi Iheanacho played a minor role as Manchester City defeated Crystal Palace 5-0 at the Etihad on Saturday. The home side can ill afford to drop points against 16-place Crystal Palace.
But Kompany warned that they could not take anything for granted, adding: "It makes a whole difference to how we approach the next three games".
As for Sam Allardyce, he went as far as to say that the second half, after Vincent Kompany scored a second, was, in his words "a bit of a capitulation".
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