Manuel Pellegrini believes Manchester City can still mount a successful bid for the Premier League title despite having little remaining margin for error.
City return to Premier League action away to Liverpool on Wednesday, after overcoming the same opponents on penalties at Wembley on Sunday to lift the League Cup.
Pellegrini's men are nine points behind Leicester with a game in hand and the manager is confident his players can still catch surprise leaders.
"If we are nine points behind the leader the range of error is less," he told a pre-match news conference.
"If the maths say you can do it, you must always trust you can do it. I am sure our team will continue growing from now until the end of the season."
Pellegrini won the Premier League in his first season in charge at City, where his side came from behind to take top spot in the last week of the 2013-14 campaign and held off Liverpool's challenge.
"When you have experience, it's easier," he added. "When you see what happens over the seasons, you must trust.
"I remember two years before I arrived, when City won the title with Mancini, weren't we eight points behind United? Anything can happen."
