The season is still quite young to be honest. There are so many more games to go and for now it looks great, but I don't think that Manchester City will show some weakness at some point. I rather expect Manchester City to win their game, close the gap and then keep pushing Liverpool. There is no scope for any mistakes for Liverpool. In March there will be the game Liverpool vs. Manchester City, but the good news for Liverpool is that the game takes place in Anfield. I think this could be an important advantage for them and depending on how both teams will perform until then, maybe this is a first final of the season already.
Quite young? What do you mean?
Sure, the season is still far from the end but it is not in the early season anymore. We are already in matchday 22 from 38 total matchdays. We are in second half of the season, mate.
Man City has no reason to show its weakness. We know that the injury players have recovered, Man City begins to play with their best form anymore. We can see that Man City is getting closer to Liverpool in EPL standings. If Liverpool does a mistake, Man City may return to the top of EPL standings. So, the competition for the title is more interesting now.
It's still early days. Go ask Pep Guardiola or Klopp whether they think that this is the final phase of the season. Of course it isn't, everything is still possible. There are almost 50 points to still play for. Why would any of the teams consider this late in the season?
Since certain clubs have been consistently performing well, it will prove to be quite challenging for them to outdo one another, thereby prolonging the season and pushing it into the late stages even earlier than anticipated. I think that people have the right reason to call it as a late game.
Liverpool was very consistent and it may take very long time to surpass it only if liverpool will be missing points. Im not thinking there will be same story as last season when manchester city took 7 weeks to surpass arsenal and i think the result from current season probably different.
I am curious whether Manchester City will still be able to improve and come up with some wild winning streak. At least they push each other at the top, but now that De Buryne is back in the game I think that Manchester City will keep pressuring Liverpool until they finally make a mistake.
De bruyne is back along with doku, city has been also expecting haaland and stones to join in the squad next month. Im not even doubting if city will be improving a lot last season since the best duet last season will be back again.
You can also expect how crazy haaland once he will play together with de bruyne. There will be a lot of room to growth for manchester city and we are only awaiting goal machine to recover from his injury.
As pep said on the latest interview, if haaland probably comeback again next month based on the result of the latest test from his doctor.