Clrnc Liverpool are extremely good against teams outside of the top 6. If I am not mistaken they only dropped points against Luton. Flat track bully
That's what wins the league. It's nice to take points off the top teams but it's not necessarily determinative of your league winners. The mini table with Arsenal on 8 pts ahead of City and Liverpool shows that. We're by far the best amongst the top teams, but we're still sitting behind in the league table because we throw too many points away elsewhere. This is what I was saying after the Liverpool games when Arteta's tactical genius was being hailed - I'm not wanting to be down on Arteta but he's shown he can deliver in big games, he's yet to show we can get to a level where we can consistently bag the points we should expect to. We're having to beat the rivals in individual games just to keep pace over the season. The bigger issue has to be in preparing and executing better against the rest of the league.
Claudius Ben White: our one reliable outlet. City’s press tried to force the ball to our left. Plus Saka was clearly unfit. So Ben had his work cut out. But he constantly got us out, and created some threat down the right.
There was a move down our right that I think might have ended with White crossing to Kiwior and then on to the Jesus shot? In any case, we played around their press like they were amateurs and White was at the heart of it. Love him.
