Man City:
Liverpool:
- Mar 30 - Fulham (A)-W
- April 6 - Cardiff (H)-W
- April 14 - Crystal Palace (A)-D
- April 20 -Tottenham (H)-W
- April 24 - Manchester United (A)-L
- April 28 - Burnley (A)-W
- May 4 - Leicester (H)-W
- May 12 - Brighton (A)-W
- Mar 17 - Fulham (A)-W
- Mar 31 - Tottenham (H)-W
- April 5 - Southampton (A)-L
- April 14 - Chelsea (H)-W
- April 21 - Cardiff (A)-W
- April 26 - Huddersfield (H)-W
- May 4 - Newcastle (A)-W
- May 12 - Wolves (H)-W
I think that is how it will play out which means Liverpool win by 1 point
Still not sold on him just yet. New manager bump, plus a stretch against mostly bad to average teams, and a lucky break against PSG.
Still not sold on him just yet. New manager bump, plus a stretch against mostly bad to average teams, and a lucky break against PSG.
He's still basically playing for the counter, and parked the bus against Liverpool.
And Point of fact...when he took over, Liverpool was top and ManU was 16 points behind, Liverpool had their tumble, they are back on top (for now), and ManU are now 18 points behind them.
True, and don't get me wrong, I like OGS and think he's a good guy and a good manager, but I just think ManU fans, and the press, should ease up a bit before crowning him the new SAF after just 19 games, and see where he's at this time next season. And see if they feel the same after April when he faces Barcelona, City, and Chelsea, and away games at Wolves and Everton (neither a gimme)He's doing something that Mourinho couldn't do. Beat the bad to average teams.
I don't think it is fair to try and make it seem as a negative because they dropped 2 points to the top team in the league.
He is 14-2-3 in all competions since becoming manager including away wins against Chelsea, Tottenham, PSG, & Arsenal.
Maybe they got a lucky break to advance vs PSG but they were going to win that game either way. Yeah they got lucky on the final goal to advance but in a must win situation, they were going to at least win that game 2-1.
Getting 32 of 39 points over a 13 game window is pretty darn good. I don't care who you were playing.
Liverpool are 9-4-1 in the same stretch
True, and don't get me wrong, I like OGS and think he's a good guy and a good manager, but I just think ManU fans, and the press, should ease up a bit before crowning him the new SAF after just 19 games, and see where he's at this time next season. And see if they feel the same after April when he faces Barcelona, City, and Chelsea, and away games at Wolves and Everton (neither a gimme)
My guess is Pochettino wasn't interested, Zidane is back at RM, and there aren't really any better options out there right now so they figured better to stick with Ole.Solskjaer appointment reminds me of when Liverpool brought back Kenny Dalglish as a caretaker manager after sacking Hodgson. I don't think Liverpool intended him as anything other than a stop gap appointment but he did well enough that they had no choice but to appoint him full time when they really didn't want to and sure enough he only lasted a year.
Solksjaer has done a better job than Dalglish did with his temporary assignment but I bet that secretly United would have preferred to appoint a higher profile man in the summer.
Hope you're right. As a Liverpool fan I'm most worried about the Spurs game. I really think we need to win out if we're going to overtake City.
I think Liverpool needs to win out. Even if city loses at ManU, Liverpool still would need to win out. Especially since it’s looking like goal differential is probably going to city.
Liverpool got lucky against Spurs but a huge result.