As today the king of sports is not football, but to look for anything to qualify it as ‘the best of history’, England set its eyes this week on the Manchester City-Liverpool. It is not for less, it has also been said. Hundreds of columns theorized about whether the battle between Guardiola and Klopp could be crowned as the best rivalry in the history of the Premier League.
Many of the best teams the British Isles have seen entered the debate. From the Champions duels between the Chelsea from Mourinho and the Liverpool by Rafa Benitez, in the 2000s, putting an end to the rivalry par excellence: the Manchester United–Arsenal end of the nineties.
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The latter, for many nostalgic, continues to this day without surpassing. However, some arguments do not stop screeching. Several theories certify that the current City against Liverpool cannot be considered a great game because they lack spice. they lack to Roy Keane and Patrick scallop grabbing his neck, and shooting spit in the locker room tunnel. Missing pieces of pizza flying in the shed to end up stamped on Alex Ferguson’s head. There is a lack of expletives in the press room, where two rivals like Guardiola and Klopp have been seen praising each other, as if two rivals could like each other. Anyway.
In England many are not aware that never in their history have they had the two best teams in the world, led by the two best coaches of the moment, leading the best league that exists in the universe, in their own country. And in this context, the City of Pep and Klopp’s Liverpool have taken light years away from the rest.
Since the 2018-2019 season, Manchester City has added 339 league points. Liverpool, 338. The one who follows them closest is Chelsea with a distant 267. That is, in four years they have taken an average of 18 points per season from their biggest pursuer. The oldest!
The four seasons with the most points in history of the Premier belong to Pep’s City and Klopp’s Liverpool. Four! In 2019, 97 points were not enough for Liverpool to be champion. What is higher than this?
If the two technicians respect and admire each other, it should be celebrated. If the players don’t break each other’s shinbones, probably too. It has been a duality forged by and from football. The rest, accessories. The ball has marked the story and has left the two most even teams in history. The Guardiola’s Barça and Mourinho’s Real Madrid They were not, by any means, so evenly matched. Although the noise was greater, the culer superiority was clear. That is why Pep reasoned that Klopp has been the biggest rival of his career. Seen he seen it on Sunday, he is not without reason.