Liverpool have been handed a constructive omen for his or her hopes of securing a possible twentieth league title and quadruple trophy haul.
The title race stays very a lot in Manchester Metropolis’s fingers, nevertheless, their document after dropping factors in Europe could present some encouragement forward of the Cityzens’ upcoming assembly with Newcastle.
Wanting over their prior fixtures, Pep Guardiola’s outfit have dropped factors in three out of 4 of the video games that adopted a draw or loss in Europe (PSG (A), Sporting Lisbon (H) and Atletico Madrid (A)).
Focusing extra exactly on Champions League ties previous outings within the Premier League, the incumbent champions dropped factors on two out of three events (PSG (A) and Sporting Lisbon (H)).
Going off of the latter statistic, Manchester Metropolis have dropped factors a whopping 66% of the time (this season) after a draw or loss in Europe when dealing with English top-flight-based opposition within the subsequent tie – albeit from a particularly small pattern dimension.
So far as the aspect’s monitor document goes, in fact, it might be removed from sudden ought to our rivals go and win all their remaining league video games to safe one main piece of silverware this time period.
That being stated, it does give us a slither of hope that our quadruple hopes stay alive and kicking with solely 4 video games to go within the top-flight calendar.