“Forget about Liverpool, they are making noise as usual, Only Chelsea have the advantage to beat us and win Premier League this season and here is why…”: Pep Gaurdiorla says Only Chelsea have what it takes to beat Man City and win Premier League this season, reveals the crucial reasons
Manchester City are winning the title this season because Pep Guardiola, but whether he stays or goes in the summer, Chelsea are the team to break the Citizens’ Premier League stranglehold.
“I don’t think we outplayed Chelsea, we certainly didn’t. I think they were more dominant than us with the ball. In an ideal world I would have seen us dominate the complete game like we did in so many other games.”
“I’m hoping in the future, hopefully in the near future, that when we play a game like this we are more dominant than we were against Chelsea. But that probably says a lot about Chelsea as well.”
It certainly does. These are two teams set up to monopolise possession and, as Slot says, dominate the game. Liverpool were unable to do that at home on the back of six wins from seven in the Premier League with far more experienced and – many would say – superior players in their first XI.
Of course it takes time for a new coach to get their ideas across and it would be unreasonable to expect Liverpool to be the finished product, but Enzo Maresca is in exactly the same position and apparently quite a bit further along in his process.
Slot can point to the lack of summer investment as an excuse – he doesn’t have any of His Players – and may argue that it’s more difficult to mould the Liverpool team given their deeply held investment in the ways of his predecessor.
