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Pep Guardiola set his sights on next week’s summit meeting with Chelsea - and admits he must unlock Antonio Conte’s ‘secret’.

Manchester City came through a severe test at Burnley - requiring two goals from Sergio Aguero to overturn Dean Marney’s opener in the 2-1 win.

Next Saturday’s top of the table clash with Chelsea will be an entirely different prospect with Guardiola conceding that Conte’s side are the team to beat in the Premier League.

“We are going to play against the best team right now in the Premier League for the last five or six weeks,” said the City manager. “They play amazing, just clean sheets.

“The way they play, we are going to try to discover his secret what we can do to beat them.

“We have now six or seven days to prepare.

“The players are tired, that’s why we are going to prepare our game as well as possible.”

City were pushed to the limit for the second week in succession against Burnley, following last Saturday’s 2-1 win at Crystal Palace.

It was a measure of the resilience of Guardiola’s side - particularly following the midweek Champions League tie with Borussia Monchengladbach.

“It was a tough week,” he said. “This is one of the toughest stadiums with just two days to regenerate after Champions League.

“Of course today was important because we have one week to prepare for Chelsea, Leicester, Watford and Arsenal, but it was so important to win because it is so complicated to play.

“You cannot press because they play long balls - they are taller than us. The second balls they are really, really good at that.

“We cannot forget before our game they were the second best team in the league at home. Just Chelsea was better than Burnley.

“I saw the games against Liverpool and Arsenal - so it’s so tough. What they do they do really, really well.

“It doesn’t adapt very well to the way we play, but it’s very rewarding that we’ve been to Stoke, here and we’ve won all the points. But the fact we are winning away is great for us.”