LIVERPOOL FORWARD WHILE M AN .C ITY FALLS BACK
At the start of the season, the famous statistics agency Opta calculated that Man.City's championship probability was 82.2%, followed by Arsenal (12.2%), Liverpool 5.1% and a total probability of... 0.5% for all the remaining teams! Now, Liverpool has become the number 1 candidate with a championship probability of up to 59.3%, Man.City has dropped to 36.2% and Arsenal has only 4.1% hope.
Coach Arne Slot is doing quite well at Liverpool.
The important development leading to the above change was that Man.City unexpectedly lost 1-2 at Brighton while Liverpool beat Aston Villa 2-0 at home in the last weekend's series of matches. Coach Arne Slot's team not only maintained the top position but also widened the gap with Man.City to 5 points. This was Man.City's second consecutive loss in the Premier League, and the first time in his coaching career that coach Pep Guardiola lost 4 consecutive matches in all competitions.
There must be an important reason why Man.City lost 4 consecutive matches in all competitions, it cannot be a coincidence. More importantly, experts have analyzed very carefully the decline of Man.City, so that the opponent confidently met Man.City with the spirit of "playing to win". Bournemouth and Brighton in the Premier League, even Sporting Lisbon in the Champions League, are not strong teams, but they coolly beat Man.City. This is also an important detail that contributes to increasing Liverpool's championship hopes. Every percentage of Man.City's weakness is a percentage of Liverpool's rise. Otherwise, just remember the 2018-2019 season, Liverpool won the last 9 matches in the Premier League (that is the obvious strength of the Champions League champion), but it was meaningless. Man.City won absolutely in the last 14 rounds, forcing Liverpool to accept the title of "great runner-up" - losing to Man.City by exactly 1 point in the final rankings.
A RNE S LOT IS EXCELLENT IN THE MOST DIFFICULT ROLE
Leaving Man.City 5 points behind after 11 rounds, and being the only team that is winning absolutely in the Champions League, that is already a great achievement. In addition, Liverpool also reached the quarter-finals of the League Cup (a tournament that Man.City was eliminated from). Up to now, coach Slot has won 15 out of 17 matches in all competitions, right in his first time in England as a coach. Those numbers alone do not tell the whole story. Slot's biggest difficulty is that he came to Anfield to replace Juergen Klopp. There must be comparisons, there is a lot of pressure. Observers agree: Coach Arne Slot risked accepting the "impossible" task when he dared to sign a contract to lead Liverpool this season. On the one hand, there is no need to talk about Klopp's achievements at Liverpool. On the other hand, there is also an argument: Klopp himself saw that even though he had reached the "ceiling" level, he still could not surpass Pep's Man.City, so he had to leave. It becomes even more evident how difficult Slot's mountain of work is.
When coach Klopp left, everyone thought that the chair he left would be taken over by Xabi Alonso. That is the former player, the brave warrior who contributed greatly to helping Liverpool win the Champions League after the legendary final against AC Milan in 2005. Last season, Alonso brought Leverkusen the first Bundesliga championship in the club's history, ending the 11-time consecutive championship streak of the giant Bayern Munich. The former Liverpool player became the hottest new face in the coaching world, and he is also Spanish - the world's number 1 coaching "brand". Liverpool would have to choose Alonso, right?
The Anfield team chose Arne Slot. The rest of the story is known to everyone. Just to add: in the most recent match, Mr. Slot led Liverpool to a 4-0 win over Alonso's Leverkusen.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/liverpool-thanh-ung-cu-vien-vo-dich-so-1-185241110232503529.htm
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