| mZuzek said: I just get triggered when people say that stuff about Liverpool "winning all the big matches and dropping points to weaker sides" or whatever. That was true for a time, but it hasn't been like that in years. Since the 2017-18 season, we've been very consistent against non-top 6 opposition (not including Everton), and have been consistently bad at the away matches against the top 6. If I recall correctly, we only scored 2 points in those 5 games in 17-18, and last season we did decently well with 6 points, but still not good enough. Also, you can't really say Everton away is an "easy match" or whatever... most merseyside derbies in recent years have ended in draws, regardless of which stadium they're played at, but it definitely isn't a common thing for Liverpool to win at Goodison. Say what you will about the current state of Everton, but, derbies are derbies. And also, dude... we got 97 points last season. That's the third highest ever points total in the history of the Premier League, and we didn't win the title by 1 point. When you lose the title by 1 point, you can point at any game we didn't win and say "that's the one that cost you the league", it doesn't matter which one you're talking about. We were, quite literally, one inch away from getting a result at the Etihad. We failed to kill the game off at the Emirates and ended up conceding a somewhat sloppy goal (not taking the credit away from Lacazette, the finish was superb). We were shit against United and Chelsea. Yeah, the dropped points against Leicester and West Ham were silly too, but... they're all worth the same amount of points as far as I know. |
This doesn't debunk what I've said because you had a 7 point lead in January when most of your games against the top 6 had even already passed so the points you dropped beforehand doesn't factor into what I pointed out as you only dropped points in 2 matches to teams in the top 6 and one of them was when you had already surrendered the top spot this is an objective fact it wasn't the top 6 games the brought you down it was the points dropped to other teams as City and United amounted to 5 points dropped with 2 points being after Leicester and West Ham had already removed you from the top spot.
