Premier League: ManCity, Liverpool, Chelsea im Check

Manchester City (1st, 44 points, 44: 9 goals)

At the latest 4-0 victory in Newcastle, Jack Greatly and Phil Modern lacked in Manchester City's starting, apparently because they had a break in a nightclub during the week. It is an incident that says two things about the Premier League leader. First, he just gains effortlessly when Pep Guardiola waives the most expensive and the most talented professional simultaneously. Second, if, then Manliness seems to be able to stand in the way this season only.

For weeks, the defending champion has almost demonstrated, as noble and wide his squad is. No matter who plays: all know their tasks in the Guardiola system, and all are good enough to fulfill their tasks as desired. With eight victories in series, City not only adopted the league peak, but now also eaten a little winter bacon. Even the discussions about a missing number 9 are — currently at least — stopped, though with Bernardo Silva is a midfielder TopTorjäger (7 results).

The fact that Germany-fright Terran Torres, 2020 has come for 27 million euros from Valencia and equipped with a contract until 2025, just before a 55 million euro winter change to FC Barcelona says everything about Mantis's title opportunities: his farewell would not Early troubled. He has been injured anyway since October, the month, in which City last a league game night won.

FC Liverpool (2nd, 41 points, 50:15 goals)

So it would be suspected pretty boring, if City would also have a top gate — one like Mo Salah: With the Egyptian (18 games, 15 goals) the FC Liverpool knows the best player of the previous season in his ranks. But this is also a problem : at the beginning of the year, a phase in which the Reds have come to stumbling for years anyway, the Africa Cup is scheduled, which will probably make no coach as hard as Jürgen Klopp.

With Salah, Radio Mane and Navy Data, three of his most important players will soon be missing for several weeks — if the tournament in Cameroon (9.1. To 6.2.) All Dementia are canceled despite not yet omikron-due. Liverpool's spectacle season, in which Kl opp's team whose power football has so excellently implemented as well as since the master season 20219/20 no longer threatens a cut.

The fact that the Reds have improved compared to previous years, but not mancity-like lane depth, already showed itself when the Corona wave detected individual power carriers; Without Salah & Co. Kl opp is certainly happy about every work victory. And: If Omicron should also ensure in England for spectator restrictions or even ghost games, nobody would suffer from the top 3 as much as Liverpool.

FC Chelsea (3rd, 38 points, 39:12 Goals)

The staffing curtain, which is facing the Klopp-Eleven, experienced Chelsea before Christmas. After a Corona outbreak, seven players lacked the 0-0 in Wolverhampton, the third draw in the last four games. The team of Thomas Tuchel, on the 14th match day still first, has already piled up six points behind man city and three on Liverpool and threatens to say goodbye to the title race as expected.

And that does not just have to do with the virus load: For weeks, the blues falls hard because they are difficult to go to zero play. Tunnel speaks of details that do not fit, but that can already be sufficient in this competition (and thus in this league is not only SANITY and LIVERPOOL). These details belong that individual bugs (e.g. Jorge, Wendy) have increased that Jericho is not physically at 100 percent and, above all, that Baller's supervisor Kane fails again and again. Overall, Tunnels team seems to fight with a certain tiredness.

Anyway, the bill Champions League winner + Lusaka has not revealed what all the world had expected. The 115 million-million newcomers could only partially fulfill the high expectations due to injury (which applies to Werner in his second year) — even this is one of these following details.

The standard summed up the form curves in front of the Boxing Day: at City is hard to imagine, as it should come to the next defeat; Chelsea seems to be forgotten how to win.

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