Carragher: Manchester City have changed the rules of competition in the Premier League Liverpool should pay more attention to domestic cup matches

Live bar January 1 news Carragher recently published a column in the "Daily Telegraph" about this season's Premier League title competition, he said: Manchester City has changed the rules of competition in the Premier League, Liverpool should pay more attention to the domestic cup like Chelsea.

An excerpt from Carragher's article is as follows

After leading the team in 2019 and 2020, successively winning the Champions League and the Premier League, Klopp has achieved his legendary status in the history of Liverpool, but if he leaves the Reds, the team does not win a new title, it is very regrettable, this is not to blame Klopp and his players, they have been very good, but Manchester City's financial resources and its accumulation of many star players is a very difficult obstacle for Liverpool to cross in the league.

Manchester City changed the rules of competition in the Premier League, Sir Alex Ferguson once said that during his time at the helm of Manchester United, the pre-Christmas Premier League top team leading by 4 or 5 points was not a big good, the real title battle only began in the spring of the following year, but now the situation is different, at the beginning of 2022, Manchester City has led second place Chelsea by as many as 8 points (Manchester City are now 9 points ahead of Liverpool, but Liverpool is one less game), considering the stability that Guardiola's team has shown this season, It's a gap that both Liverpool and Chelsea are struggling to catch up with.

Based on the above, I think Liverpool should pay as much attention to domestic cup matches as Chelsea, which have won 5 FA Cups and 3 League Cups in the past decade, while in the same period, Liverpool have only won the 2012 League Cup.

Liverpool's strategic abandonment of domestic cup competitions in the past few years is understandable, because the thickness of the squad is indeed not as thick as Manchester City and Chelsea, but considering the current competitive situation in the Premier League, it is time for Liverpool to consider changing this strategy, and I (Carragher) have this view, not defeatism, but a more realistic consideration.

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