This team looks a lot better than the 2016 winning team.
Brendan Rodgers doing such a great job, guess those years with Celtic and winning trophies has rubbed off on the Leicester players.
Jamie Vardy looking even better than 2016, he is 5 goals ahead of 2nd place and if he continues his scoring pace he could finally get that golden boot. He has scored in the last 8 consecutive premier league games if he can tie his record of 11 goals in 11 games.
Maddison is just amazing, Tielemans, Barnes and Perez are good but still room for improvement.
N'didi is great, he is no 2016 Kante, but he is on his way.
The defense is just brilliant, the least amount of goals conceded only 9 goals allowed, Soyuncu looking better than Maguire, Soyuncu will cost Man.Utd 100 million, Evans looks to be a steal and Ricardo and Chilwell are great.
Last but not least Schmeicel, don't think he has had to make that many saves but when called upon he has done a good job.
Granted only 16 matches have gone by and a lot more of the season left to play, the whole team could crumble but I trust in Rodgers to make sure that doesn't happen.
Leicester already have more points than they had at this stage when they won the league. I win £80 if Vardy finishes top scorer, just had a feeling about him playing well under Rodgers. If they can get to January still in the hunt (very likely with Liverpool's fixture congestion and the Leicester V Liverpool game on Boxing Day) and Rodgers can bring in 2-3 players, then they're going to be a real threat.
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I dont see liverpool dropping enough points to be overtaken, this team feels different, with the likes of salah, mane, trent, henderson, allison, bar major injury these guys will grind out the wins.
Hope I am wrong, if Liverpool win the prem I hope Leicester can take 2nd, if we can beat Man City in a few weeks and go into the new year with a 9 point gap, that would be amazing
Well this is more or less over already isn't it? Days after flying out to Qatar to play 2 games in a matter of days to become World Champions, Liverpool head to the home of their nearest rivals for the title, who have one of the most in-form defence and attack and blow them away 4-0. Not like Leicester played badly either, they got past the back line and into the Liverpool box on numerous occasions in the first half and played some really good football, they still couldn't muster up a single shot in the first half though and Liverpool just dominated the second half.
The 2020 title race is as over as it can be considering it's still 2019, Liverpool have a couple of big games in January, Everton then Spurs followed by Man Utd, but with a weeks rest in between all those games, the squad will have some much needed freshness back.
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Liverpool might win the league, sure, but I wonder, did any of you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Keegan the Wise? 12 points ahead in January, he was, with a team that seemed like they were going to steamroll the Premiership.
That Newcastle team was too gung-ho, too inexperienced both with playing staff and with Keegan, were being pursued by a team playing top class football and didn't have anywhere close to the defensive qualities this Liverpool team has. They were great to watch don't get me wrong, but their defensive frailties and their lack of a fitness regime took it's toll in the end. Liverpool have neither a lack of a fitness regime nor a worrying defence and are hardly being pursued by a team playing at their best. (Liverpool aren't even playing their best)
It's not the VAR decisions that I have a problem with really, it's the fact that players are claiming it be used for everything on the pitch, 80% of goals get disputed by the opposition, you can see them demanding the ref take a look, generally speaking that's a waste of time. The rules need to be sorted out properly too.
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I don't necessarily agree, but I still think that it's incredibly premature to say the League is won when it isn't even January yet. I'm not going to pretend I want Liverpool to win, but the worst thing those players can do is start to believe that it's in the bag and get complacent.
I have a problem with it all. I genuinely think the League was better off without it.
I don't think for a second that any of the Liverpool players think this is done and dusted, they know there's a lot of hard work ahead, they still have to play everyone else again (except Leicester) and anything can happen, that's why we keep tuning in , game after game, year after year. But, barring divine intervention, Liverpool will win the league. The Fabinho injury is going by unnoticed, the 2nd choice keeper (who didn't even get offered a new contract by West Ham at the end of last season) was in goal for the first 2 months of the season and they still went undefeated.
I'd be interested to see some data on VAR at the end of the season, in terms of how many decisions it's gotten wrong versus right and maybe some comparative data on how many referee overturns it got right versus wrong. It's still in its infancy and apparently the EPL has its own set of guidelines when compared to UEFA, etc, which I don't think helps in the slightest TBH, according to Shaka Hislop England are the only country that are having any kind of problems with it.
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It doesn't help that the EPL has had problems for a while now with some shocking refeering standards. I suppose it was naive to think that wouldn't carry over in to the implementation of VAR. Even the new rules... They just seem so, so wrong to me.
Have you spotted how they've changed the kick-off rules? I noticed it a year or so ago, used to be that you had to kick it into your opponents half, hence why you would see 2 players at kick-off, one would roll it into the opposition half then the other would quickly snap it back into their own half, now we see just one player in the centre circle who is totally free to kick it into his own half. Just kind of crept up on me that one.
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I'm just assuming it was a law change but it has to have been surely. Like I said, the old rule was that you had to kick it to your opponents and now no-one has to do that.
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Just Wikied it, the restriction on the ball moving forward at kick-off was removed in 2016. Also, the same page says that if an own goal is scored directly from kick-off, then it's given as a corner and not a goal, I'd like to know how and why that rule was implemented.
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I mean, they're just not letting up are they? 20 wins from 21 games, the records they could break this season is astounding, not worth the 30 year wait TBH but this team can be a sheer joy to watch at times (as a Liverpool fan).
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I might just start crying now to get the emotion out of the way, just don't see how anyone else can catch up to this team right now, they're ridiculously ruthless.
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That the one about how to repair torn Man Utd kits? Heard that about a week after it happened from my brother's friend, he's a sick fvck, as a matter of fact he's the only guy I've ever seen that actually went the distance on The People Vs. Jerry Sadowitz, Jerry was actually hugging him and telling him he was a top man by the end, you need to be a real sicko to accomplish that.
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