Why we predict Liverpool’s Premier League title success and its evolutionary approach
Liverpool have to stop in the race against Manchester City, but are at least well positioned to bring them back to the front. One cannot avoid the conclusion that it ended in a rather somber way. They were there to win an unprecedented quad and winning two trophies is obviously nothing to scoff at, but the two they won weren’t the two they wanted.
In the Premier League, they led Manchester City until the last 20 minutes of their last game. In the Champions League he lost to Real Madrid by one goal. Subsequent analysis is how narrow the gap between victory and defeat is in top-flight club play, even if the final result appears to be left unquestioned.
That’s not the only reason. The events of his league final night in the Champions League in Paris will bring back terrible memories of the past for his Liverpool supporters of a certain age. As if the last 30 years had never passed, the French authorities shamefully sought to blame their innocent supporters themselves for a complete loss of control.
There was also uncertainty on the player side of the club. Sporting director Michael Edwards left the club in May after stepping down last November. Mo Salah delayed contract negotiations. Sadio Mane was on his way to Munich. If Liverpool fans felt a little like an era, and a feeling he hadn’t properly experienced in over 30 years, might be coming to an end, it would have been understandable.
