A few days ago, the mythical Tostão told Juan Bautista Martínez:
–If there is a level forward similar to the one we had in Brazil in 1970, this is what Liverpool has today, with the trident formed by Firmino, Mané and Salah.
The chronicler reads the reflection and rubs his hands: this promises. He has been commissioned to chronicle Everton-Liverpool.
Then the minutes pass and the mood gets cloudy.
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Liverpool have gone to bed with a margin of 23 points over City, which today receives Burnley
Joy in a well: an hour before the match, Jürgen Klopp announces the Liverpool starting eleven. Descarta a Wrong. In his place plays the Japanese Minamino, later replaced, in the middle.
Do not be discouraged. The chronicle still has its reason for being. Liverpool has not owned a Premier since 1990. And now it seems one step away from breaking the curse: the shock has a historical dimension.
Liverpool (URoberto Firmino, on his knees, in the lead of Everton-Liverpool (AP POOL / EFE)
It sounds like a lie, but in these three decades a good handful of English clubs have taken over the English league. On the list are Manchester United (thirteen times), City, Arsenal, Chelsea and even Blackburn and Leicester. It seems unbelievable, we must insist: in all this time, Liverpool has not scratched the ball.
These are other times.
Liverpool advance step by step. Five years after signing for the redsKlopp is ready to reset them. If it bears fruit in the next days, his league victory would round off an unquestionable trajectory. Klopp had managed the superb Liverpool that took over the Champions League last year. And now he maintains the best essences of the set in this atypical 2020, displeasure against Atlético apart.
Image of the surroundings of the Everton stadium, while the Merseyside Derby was played inside (JASON CAIRNDUFF / Reuters)
A little more and this Liverpool will take the Premier. While waiting for the City, which today receives Burnley, the reds They have gone to bed with a margin of 23 points after their goalless draw on Everton field (0-0).
As the result indicates, this Merseyside Derby, the oldest in English football – it has been played continuously since 1962 – has been as silent as it was artificial. It has been disputed with the empty stands, with the hobbies gathered in their houses, the canned shouts and a large banner stretched out on the rostrum, saying: No to racism.
Everton’s Gylfi Sigurdsson fights for possession with Jordan Henderson and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, in the presence of Alexander-Arnold, at Goodison Park (Pool / Getty)
We certainly haven’t seen the best Liverpool, and neither has Salah, its franchise man.
Klopp has not included him in the five changes, aware that at this point in the course, and sailing with so much wind in his favor, it is not necessary to leave life in the effort either.
