It goes beyond any reasonable doubt that the Reds could soon establish a dominance extending way beyond the boundaries of this season alone. Theirs is a clear-cut agenda and a destiny that already seem self-fulfilling, with seemingly nothing that could possibly come between the Champions-elect and their long-coveted League Cup.
Already at this juncture there’re loads to gush and wax lyrical about Liverpool this season. They’re steamrolling their opposition in being leagues ahead in the race for the Premier League title. That said, they also definitely carry the composure of a force majeure that looks most likely to continue imposing and extending their dominance on the trophies front for the immediately foreseeable future.
Liverpool could well clinch the League earlier at Old Trafford itself. However, whilst this eventual outcome is not in any way a subject of debate to Pep Guardiola, nonetheless he and his squad have every reason for desiring to seize victory from the Reds when they square up on the scheduled 4th April 2020 match. Pep and his boys are the only unlikely-looking obstacle looming awkwardly in the path of the Liverpool pantheon. Rest assured that whatever the outcome on that fateful day, it is a certainty that Manchester City will be out firing on all cylinders from the get-go to ensure a win for themselves even though the win would not affect the League Cup destiny whatsoever.
It is all about a vendetta for revenge. Simple as that.
Let’s flashback to a histrionic day in 2017-18 at Anfield when then unbeaten Champions-elect Manchester City had arrived en route to a 100-point season, seemingly indestructible. As all eyes were focused on the pitch, Liverpool soon sped into a 4-1 lead which threw the football world headlong into utter disbelief. Before long, they ultimately and unceremoniously floored the Champions-elect in devastating style. Despite City eventually making up for the lag with the final 4-3 outcome, the Reds had succeeded in proving to themselves and all others watching that the Etihad boys could not only be beaten, but well beaten. They had proved their point and won for themselves the hard-fought, self-ameliorating dignity of redemption where others had failed.
The Reds have performed so magnificently this season few would dare question their invincibility. They appear unbeatable.
This is the perception Pep Guardiola and his City ensemble will be all out to disprove and dispel, regardless of the rest of the League. Moreover, the ever-widening gap in points separating the two is steadily fanning the flames of a fire burning uncomfortably beneath the erstwhile Spaniard and his incumbent 2-time Premier League Champions of the last two seasons. There’s already a huge dent in City’s domestic pride this season even well before the final outcome.
For Manchester City, theirs is a not-too-long-ago score that needs to be settled soon. Tit for that!