Manchester City faces a slump in form, with losses in recent matches, while Liverpool maintains its supremacy under Arne Slot, winning 18 of its last 20 games. The spotlight is now on Pep Guardiola to turn things around.
In a month, Manchester City ’s aura has vanished, but who realistically looks a better candidate than the Spanish master to restore it
Few managers have left a club in quite as good a state as Klopp did. Most depart when the structure is broken, but Klopp had begun the process of rebuilding, reshaping his forward line and midfield over his last couple of seasons. Slot, it should not be forgotten, has done this without adding a single player; which, as Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah approach the end of their contracts, may by next season have become problematic.
At the same time, there have been repeated occasions this season when he has made changes that have had a clear positive effect. Almost the default pattern for a Liverpool match has been a slightly featureless first half followed by a second in which they score a couple of goals. Liverpool’s lead over Chelsea and Arsenal is nine points with 25 games to go. It would be too early to say the race is over, even if we knew how they handle life when fortune turns on them, but that is an extremely healthy advantage, particularly given there is no reason to expect either Chelsea or Arsenal suddenly to embark on a remorseless winning spree – although Arsenal have already played their away games against five of the other six teams who finished in the top seven last season.
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