Former Manchester City and England defender Stuart Pearce believes that Liverpool will win the Premier League this season. Both City and Liverpool have started the Premier League brilliantly. City have registered 2-0 and 6-1 wins on Arsenal and Huddersfield Town respectively while Liverpool have beaten West Ham and Crystal Palace 4-0 and 2-0 respectively.
Pearce said, “I personally think they’ll win the league this year. I think it’s a two-horse race between them and City and they might just come out on top. I’m seeing a belief within the group that I probably haven’t seen before from the back end of last season. They’re hungry as well. They lost the Champions League final and the manner in the way they lost the final will hurt them.
They didn’t win the league last year so I think they’ve got the hunger in their belly. They’re chasing that first title for however long and I think that hunger will get them over the line.”
Another former Manchester City player Craig Bellamy who also played for Liverpool said that the team is better this season due to a solid defence. Bellamy said, “They were very vulnerable to counter-attacks and with a defender like (Dejan) Lovren he was vulnerable. He left me so concerned that when the team won the ball and the opposition was going the other way, he would get exposed. For them to go and win the league I think it was going to be very difficult.
They’ve shored that up, the defence. Now they have genuine pace. They can now defend one v one because, at times, with the way they play with the fullbacks going on and the wingers coming inside they’re going to have to be prepared to do that at times.”
Liverpool play their next Premier League fixture against Brighton and Hove Albion on Saturday.
