After 26 rounds of the Premier League, Manchester City continued to top the table with an impressive record of 20 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses and 63 points; Liverpool's record of 57 points in the first round of the junior round was followed by a record of 57 points with 17 wins, 6 draws and 2 losses; Chelsea also ranked third with 1 round of 14 wins, 8 draws and 3 losses and 50 points.
In the case of only 12 rounds of the league, it can be said that the situation of the championship is already very clear, there is no doubt that the championship will be 99.99% between Manchester City and Liverpool, and the three teams of Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool once presented in the opening stage of the Premier League have become the "two-man turn" of Manchester City and Liverpool.
In fact, in the past few seasons, in addition to the collapse of the season last season due to Liverpool's collective season reimbursement of the main central defenders, the Premier League has basically been a peak showdown between Manchester City and Liverpool.
In the past 4 seasons, Manchester City has won 3 Premier League titles, Liverpool have taken 1, the two teams compete for supremacy, the most classic one is the 2018-2019 season, Manchester City and Liverpool did not spell out the championship until the last round, Manchester City won the championship with a high score of 98 points, And Liverpool lost with a good record of 97 points.
It can be said that Manchester City and Liverpool basically represent the highest level of the Premier League, and other teams are difficult to match, Tuchel's Chelsea, the first half of the amazing period for a while, but as the schedule gradually unfolded, gradually fell out of the team.
Although Liverpool also experienced a difficult period, in the end, they still grabbed Manchester City an accident and caught up head-on, which had to make people think deeply, why is it Manchester City and Liverpool? What is so great about the two teams that they can stand out in the Premier League, which is so competitive, that other teams can't even see the taillights?
[Made by Guardiola and made by Klopp are the most advanced oppressive playing styles in world football today]
First of all, from the perspective of playing style, Manchester City and Liverpool are both mainly focused on high pressure, but Guardiola and Klopp have very different understandings of oppressive play, and the two are born for different purposes.
Guardiola's main high-level oppression, in order to control the ball more under his feet, mainly me, is the most reassuring playing method in Guardiola's football philosophy, for a long time, everyone is happy to treat this kind of football as a passing football, the core meaning of this style of play is to limit the opponent to get the ball, the opponent can not get the ball naturally can not launch a threatening attack, and the side can control the ball, in the periphery of the constant patience to fall feet, continue to consume the opponent, waiting for the opportunity to seek a fatal blow.
Klopp's high pressure, the purpose of the same is to try to regain the ball, but the core meaning is very different, Liverpool's oppression is to seek a quick counterattack in the process of ball conversion, many times, Liverpool's frontcourt pass success rate is not high, but on the one hand, the war is always burning in the opponent's half, on the other hand, repeatedly through the high-speed ball conversion of the opponent's defense line, the same will find a lot of good opportunities in the continuous war of attrition.
It can be said that these two genres almost represent the two top schools of football in the world today, the same is dominated by me, but each has its own advantages, most teams against Guardiola are retracted to play counter-attack, but Klopp does not shrink back, the same play out of the sky.
[The biggest advantage of system football is that the alternative has continuous stability]
Furthermore, we may wish to consider why guardiola and Klopp's team can continue to score more than 90 points, last season's extreme case, a team's main centre-back season reimbursement, is not in the scope of consideration, usually, as long as the injury list of Manchester City and Liverpool is reasonable, then, in the long league, Manchester City and Liverpool are difficult to beat.
The reason is very simple, because of the rotation of the lineup, the style of play of the two teams has not changed much, and there is a good continuity, in the past, we have been stressing that Manchester City can line up two sets of starting lineups that can win the championship, and now it seems that Liverpool is gradually not sparing.
This is due to the fact that Guardiola and Klopp are both managers known for building system football, and both managers have been more or less criticized in the past, considered to have some shortcomings in on-the-spot response, but this may not be because they can't see the change in the situation on the field, but because of the obsession with the system, the rotation players will most likely not be the kind of players who can make a difference in tactics, most of them are just alignment adjustments.
This explains why Manchester City and Liverpool do not see much difference in play after the rotation of the lineup, on the contrary, Chelsea, Tuchel did inject a lot of vitality into Chelsea, but in the middle of the season, when Chelsea suffered an injury wave, the whole system collapsed, Chelsea became a tactical ghost, but also destroyed by tactical ghost talent, because Chelsea's starting lineup and substitute lineup, there is basically no alternative.
[The two system masters who are yuliang for a while cannot be separated from the full support of the team]
So, then again, why are Manchester City and Liverpool able to build the system so well, and the bottom line is getting thicker?
The financial and material support of the management is certainly indispensable, in essence, football is a money-burning sport, but burning money also has to burn the right place.
Everyone is saying that Manchester City has a good boss, but the key point is that the Mansour consortium has great trust in Guardiola and greatly respects Guardiola's football philosophy, from youth training to football director, all the construction of Manchester City is built with Guardiola as the core, and even before Guardiola did not come to Manchester City, it has been paved for several years.
Liverpool is also similar, although many people are saying that the Liverpool boss cut the door, but in fact, it is just a different business strategy, Liverpool's operation is closer to the mature model of market operation, Liverpool from the scouting system, to the construction of the youth training echelon, in fact, since Klopp came to Liverpool, it has been moving closer to it.
The formulation of the reinforcement strategy, the Liverpool executives have actually been advancing and retreating with Klopp, which is an iterative and continuous update and improvement of the reinforcements, focusing on the long term, rather than being quick, so we scold, scold, and suddenly find that Klopp and his Liverpool can actually fight the battle of prosperity.
Thinking through the above joints, it may not be difficult for us to understand why Manchester City and Liverpool, Guardiola and Klopp, are the absolute double glory of the Premier League today.
Their dominance in the Premier League is the result of several years of hard work, Manchester City's financial resources are better, the team is faster; but once Liverpool catch up, it is not so easy to be left behind.
As long as the path is right, the snowball will usually get bigger and bigger, the position will become more and more consolidated, and once the order is established, it is really difficult for others to break and form a challenge.