SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2019Through skill or luck, Reds
must bridge gap to City
Pep Guardiola’s side edged Liverpool by a point last season (Reuters)
MARK CRITCHLEY
NORTHERN FOOTBALL CORRESPONDENT
The difference was only one point, or was it? A narrative took hold during the back end of last season that
the highest-calibre Premier League title race of recent years was being contested by a relentless, all-
conquering juggernaut and another team who, though excellent, were clinging to their rivals’ coat-tails.
The unforgiving standard set by Manchester City’s extraordinary 14-game winning run from January
onwards and the dramatic nature of some of Liverpool’s late-season wins supported this theory, even if
several of City’s last few victories were more tense than Pep Guardiola would have liked.