Back sat down with a brew but I'm still absolutely buzzing from a sensational game of togger and a result that will do us sound.
Today's Admin-
Title Countdown:
22 wins down/ 7 to go. (Adjusted from the 30 season win target to 29.).
73 points down/ 21 to go. (Adjusted from the 95 point season point target to 94.).
City-
P 31 PTS 74 F 72 A 20 GD + 52
Liverpool-
P 31 PTS 73 F 79 A 22 GD + 57
Current Unbeaten League Run-
12 games: W 10 D 2 F 29 A 6 CS: 8.
WOW!!!!! Honestly, top level football doesn't get ANY better than the two games we've played against City this year. To be able to have witnessed both live and in person, like every other Klopp/ Guardiola contest that we've been allowed to attend .,.... Privileged. Absolutely privileged. When you see a game of such stupendously high quality like that one today, played at such a stupendously high, relentless pace for 90 plus minutes ..... Privileged probably isn't even the right verb to describe just how sensational it is to watch these two modern-day Goliaths go toe-to-toe.
You could sit and bemoan our slow start. Or the real sloppy defending for City's goals. City who had the edge in the first half. L'pool who had that the second. But that would be churlish and taking away from an outstanding exhibition of football at the very, VERY highest level. Contested by the two clear best teams on the planet that have literally NOTHING separating them. Two teams that are LEVELS above anything else in England and will continue to be that way unchallenged for the next 2 or 3 years at least the stronger they become, each pushing the other to greater heights. With literally nobody making up any ground from the other 18 teams in the league.
I said before the game I'd be made up with a draw as the single most important thing today was not to lose. And I'm absolutely made up after the game. Let's see who holds their nerve over the last 7 games. And you know what? If we both win out, which is entirely possible with these two, and we end up a point behind City, it really doesn't matter. Yeah, it'll be frustrating and disappointing as all heck. But man alive, when two teams are as historically awesome as these two, then it's absolutely NO shame to finish behind the other. You just have to tip your hat and say this year, we were sensational. But they were just that smidgen better.
And now we get to do it all over again in the FA Cup semi next Sat'day. Which I honestly couldn't call if you put a gun to my head. So evenly matched are we both. But what I do know, is that it will be another absolute clinic of football at the highest possible level and justify all the struggles we'll be going through to get down there next weekend. And I'll be absolutely shocked if we don't end with a third end of season thriller with City in Paris to decide the biggest prize of all.
Relish every moment of this, boys and girls. For it really will NEVER get any better than the ridiculous levels these two modern-day rivals are continually wowing us with.
'Privileged' isn't the word.
Roll on Wednesday night. And then the next instalment in what is fast turning into the highest quality level of rivalry the English game has ever seen.
Up the exhilarated, exhausted, and STILL quadruple fighting Reds! FTT!!!!!
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