Liverpool are a great team, one defeat in 60 odd games can’t be argued with. What can be argued, is how our own arrogance has allowed them to walk away with it. We’ve won the league by a single point against a team that amassed 97 points and went on to win the Champions League. You can’t rest on your laurels against that level of opposition but we allowed our captain and legend to leave the club without replacing him. We put all our eggs in the Laporte basket and decided that we could go with our 3rd and 4th choice centre backs from last season to partner him. Laporte gets injured and we then decide we can take the best CDM in the country and lob him at CB for a whole season.
Liverpool have dropped 2 points all season, so we in all honesty, we would likely be behind them no matter what but they have zero pressure on them every week, much like us at this stage of 17/18. It is so much easier to go out and perform, when you know you can lose 2 or 3 games and still be well clear. Maybe, if we had remained humble and didn’t believe that we can do whatever the hell we like, because well, we are just that good, we would be a lot closer to them and their games every week might have more riding on them.