Don't be tempted to think Klopp's blueprint has superseded Guardiola's | Jonathan Wilson

Liverpool’s relentless machine has proved superior to Manchester City’s but it would be unwise to assume they have found a way to dominate their rivals in perpetuity

It is a measure of what an astonishing season this has been from Liverpool that if Manchester City had won every match they played since 8 October, when they lost 2-0 at home to Wolves in their eighth game of the season, they would still have been second right now.

Jürgen Klopp’s side have maintained their extraordinary form of last season when they finished a point behind City with the third-highest total in history, perhaps even improved; City have not. The danger is to become numb to such relentlessness, to think it is normal. It is not, not even as football’s self‑destructive economics stretch the gap from the top of the table to the bottom.

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