The cult being you?
He is pointing out that if Liverpool get better at defending leads, they will improve. Can't understand what you are so worked up about. Nothing genius about it, just some random thing at a presser?
But he's also referencing City whilst trying to appease the cult. It's very much 'if my Aunty had bollocks'. It's just as easy to say had we not already won the league we wouldn't have tossed away a two goal lead in the Derby & drawn at home to Huddersfield. So the gap could just as easily been 30.
Liverpool are truly detestable buddy, anyone who's ever had to suffer them up close will tell you just that.