Yeah I'm with you, it's so easy to think ahead. I guess I keep reminding myself, City were sitting there quite happily with their mega-squad and then all-of-sudden Crystal Palace come to town and gave it a go. The physical nature of our league cannot be underestimated. The players we put out have to be ready for the battle each week. As JK says, there is nothing we can do about City now. But more importantly, there is nothing they can do about us if we keeping winning.
They weren’t sitting there quite happily though. They were 2 points ahead and in all likelihood if Mane’s goal at the Emirates is given as it should be they aren’t ahead by that either.
It’s been neck and neck with us and them all season, I’m pretty sure they’ve never had more than a 2 point lead at any stage with the same number of games played.
They were 7 behind us and had to fight tooth and nail to reduce that gap to 4.
Of course we take every game as it comes and remain vigilant that anyone is capable of beating anyone in this division, but Klopp will take care of the attitude in that respect anyway. Whilst City’s poor results in December can serve us well as a reminder of the above, in reality what those results say is that City are prone to poor results against teams you’d expect them to beat, especially when the pressure is on a bit, not that the same is likely to happen to us.
Ive been saying this for the last week, but if we can make it 5 from 5 in the games following th City match, of which we’ve already won 1, I fully expect that gap to be at least 6 points, as I’m sure City will falter somewhere. Granted if you look at each game individually it difficult to see City dropping points, but cumatively I can genuinely see there being a fuck up there, fingers crossed it’s tonight.