Our opponent is
runaway league leader Man City.
The 5th of November gives us the hardest test of all with a visit to the Etihad to take on
the runaway League leaders Man City.
Not exact matches
The year before that we did win our opener against Crystal Palace after beating
Man City to the Shield quite comfortably but then our title challenge faltered and Arsenal did not win another
league game for over a month and by mid-October Chelsea were
runaway leaders.
This weekend my local Australian
League team, the Newcastle Jets (currently second) beat the
runaway premiership
leaders Sydney City 2:1 playiing with 10
men for 80 minutes.
Stan Collymore has now called for them to push on and create a four - way dogfight for the Premier
League title, alongside Chelsea, Manchester United and current
runaway leaders Man City.
Burnley battled their way to an impressive 1 - 1 draw against
Man City at the weekend, with defender Ben Mee taking a very literal approach to stopping the
runaway Premier
League leaders in the tracks.
But Klopp, after seeing Salah score for the seventh straight game, said his
man deserved to be competing for English football's top individual honours alongside the Belgian, who has played such a key role in the progress of
runaway Premier
League leaders City this season.
With the FA Cup kicking off and then returning at the end of January, we should have a much clearer idea of where this season is going for the Blues once the month draws to a close, especially with
Man City already
runaway leaders in the Premier
League, ruling out any chance of Conte's
men retaining their title.
Liverpool's display at Brighton moved beaten manager Chris Hughton to dub Klopp's side «the best team we have played this season», despite his
men having also lost 2 - 0 to Pep Guardiola's
runaway league leaders Manchester City.
Man Utd are second in the Premier
League but with no realistic chance of catching
runaway leaders and crosstown neighbours Manchester City.