matbezlima
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Manchester City 2017-2018 season vs. Liverpool 2019-2020 season: what team is better?
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How is this even an question? Whatever happens now Liverpool have been shafted. This season is going to be the least memorable in history and will always be overshadowed by the pandemic. The halt in events has already damaged the credibility of the the PL. To top it off they had been hammered by Watford, lost their precious unbeaten run and dumped out of both remaining cup competitions. Even if the seasons integrity had held it was going to be a regular title win. Nothing more.Manchester City 2017-2018 season vs. Liverpool 2019-2020 season: what team is better?
To be fair you'd have to say Liverpools League, League Cup and European Cup win in 1984 was better than City's treble in 2019. I'd have that second after our 99 Treble.I would say City 2018-2019 was better, because winning Domestic Triple was historic, 2nd only after our International Triple, ever in English football history.
If you insist on comparing City 2017-2018 Vs Liverpool 2019-20. City beat Liverpool by a mile, simply because City achieved 2 trophy when Liverpool can only achieve 0.9. Even City's 2019 season might collect more than 1 trophy if wasn't for the pandemic.
How many people would remember Liverpool's 9X point runner-up? Possibly best runner-up in the world, ever. If you don't win something, you are nobody.
City can achieve all these because their squad is deeper, whereas Liverpool only has 13-15 players who are good enough.
Not sure what the comparison with Chelsea has to do with anything in this debate, but in any case I found that Chelsea more dominant and solid than this Liverpool - even though I wasn't a fan of their brand of football.It's funny how when it comes to Liverpool this season people want to devalue them by calling them boring and bland, while it comes to Jose's Chelsea from 04-06 the same attributes are taken as positives and they are labeled as a brilliant team.
The fact is this Liverpool team have dropped points in only 2 games this whole season in 29 games, that's quite brilliant no matter how you would want to demean their playing style. It would be difficult to say who is better since Liverpool will most likely not be able to finish the season and try to match the points total set by City that season, but they were certainly going towards that record.
City were certainly much better to watch in that 17/18 season but in a one off game this Liverpool team would still beat them, heck the 17/18 Liverpool beat them over 4 games tie that season iirc.
Not in a particular order but:City's team was more impressive that season than we are this.
This Liverpool team is top 5/6 in Premier League history though.
Liverpool are a bad match up for them - similar to how Atletico were a bad match up for Liverpool. City can beat them though as they've shown over the last few years (they should've done the double over them last season), but the game is on the edge of a knife because their style plays into Liverpool's strengths.Even though I think that City was the better side, I believe that Liverpool would beat them in a one-off game more often than not.
Funny how that works.
I think the run-in in 2019 was extraordinary from both sides. Successful season for both: City with their 4 titles, Liverpool with the big ears cupIt was amazing that City in 2017/2018, and Liverpool so far in 2019/2020, basically never had a blip in the league and never went more than 1 league game without a win.
Agreed a ridiculously good standard. I know Liverpool had that period starting with the defeat away to City with 4 wins, 4 draws and 1 defeat from 9 games, but I think it would be incredibly harsh to say that they blew the title last season, when they that was basically their only blip of the league season, and they rebounded to end it with 9 straight wins.I think the run-in in 2019 was extraordinary from both sides. Successful season for both: City with their 4 titles, Liverpool with the big ears cup