LIVERPOOL
Aug 01, 2019
4 minutes
LAST SEASON
PREMIER LEAGUE 2nd
FA CUP Third Round
LEAGUE CUP Third Round
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Winners
TOP SCORER Mohamed Salah (27)
BUT, SERIOUSLY, IS IT GOING TO BE THEIR YEAR?
ANDREW MURRAY @ANDY_MURRAYFFT
The width of your little finger. The diameter of a keyboard button. Half a cashew nut. That was the difference between winning the title for the first time in 29 years and finishing an agonising second.
Had Sadio Mané’s shot-turned-goalmouth-scramble travelled 1.12cm further to cross the Manchester City goal-line and turn January’s 2-1 defeat into a draw, the Premier League title and an unbeaten season was Liverpool’s. No one ever said life at the top is easy.
It’s staggering that, with four months of the season to go, events on January 3
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