Tottenham Vs Chelsea in relation with Manchester City
This night fixture between Tottenham and Chelsea is so important and not only between the teams but to the real lovers of the English football. I am no longer comfortable with the Manchester city dominance of the English football for may seasons now. Last season, I thought Arsenal will discontinue the reign of the Citizens, but the gunners ran out of arms.
This season, Manchester city has managed to find themselves again at the top of the English premier League table, which doesn't go down well with me. The two teams I had believed to give a fight to the Citizens are Liverpool and Arsenal and they really had bad weekend. The former narrowly escaped win by a relegation team while the later was robbed.
Honestly, I do not trust Tottenham to give a fight to Manchester city, but for fairness, they need to beat Chelsea to return to the top.
Maybe many people feel the same way as you about Tottenham, but with what they are showing now it should be a breath of fresh air to be able to provide competition to Manchester City, which in the last few seasons they have always dominated. Moreover, Tottenham is also one of the strong clubs in this Premier League, it's just that their level has not increased. This season the opportunity came to them, now it's just how they maintain what is their current performance, or even more improved.
Losing two points in a game with a club that is hanging in the relegation zone is a disaster and there is nothing to be happy about and one point gained cannot be any consolation since there should have been 3. Liverpool is already 3 points behind City (and potentially 5 behind Tottenham) and this is a gigantic gap since in order to catch up with City they need to win a head-to-head match, and a defeat in a head-to-head match will be equal to losing the race since the distance turns into 6 points .
That's right, I even thought this would be a landslide victory for Liverpool but it seems like they were having trouble from the first minute. Against a weak team like Luton Town it shouldn't be something that will bother them from getting 3 points but this time it looks like Liverpool have lost their usual performance. In fact, Liverpool had to fall behind first and fortunately Luiz Diaz was the savior in this match with the goal he scored in injury time. Both teams scored late goals and Liverpool almost lost this match. I'm still surprised by Darwin Nunez when he had an 80% chance of scoring a goal but he failed to do it. With this difference, it seems quite difficult for Liverpool to be able to shift these two teams.
It depends on how they respond to the less-than-positive result they got in this match. If they can improve, then they will be able to compete for the championship, but if they decline even more then they will have difficulty competing. Now it's only past week 11 and there are still many matches they will play. one more thing, we also don't know whether bad luck will befall the two clubs above them now or not, because that possibility is still there.
There is still plenty of time for them to catch up with the points they feel now.