City are still top of the league and their defending will improve. They have a new manager with a different approach.
If you are not worried about our defending ? you should be. No team will win the title defending as we do, it is not good enough. If you continue making simple mistakes handing teams chance’s you will become unstuck. Maybe not at the start of the season but when it get towards the back end of the year and the pressure starts to multiply poor defending will cost you dearly.
I hope it gets better but when I look at our defenders I’m not that sure it will.
Who said anything about winning the league?
Houllier had to finish in the Top 3, later Top 4.
Benitez had to finish 1st in the league.
Dalglish had to finish in the Top 4.
Rodgers had to finish in the Top 4.
Klopp has to finish in the Top 4.
When they were appointed, 4 of the 5 coaches above had a very similiar goal in front of them. We were not in the European Cup, and their task was to get back in it. Anything more would be a bonus. Some succeeded, some didn't.
We want to win the league, but Klopp is not expected to win the league this year. He is here to get us back into the Top 4, and even if the defending isn't perfect, he's very capable of that. As 3 years ago, a good December and January will be the backbone of whatever we go on to achieve this season.
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