Gary Neville: Liverpool one notch above Manchester City | Football news

Gary Neville insists that the application that Liverpool is showing so far this season is one level above that of Manchester City.

Jurgen Klopp’s team have started their defense of the Premier League title they won last season with three consecutive victories, including an impressive victory at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea and a 3-1 win at home to Arsenal on Monday Night. Football.

Meanwhile, Manchester City started off with victory against Wolves, but Pep Guardiola’s men were stunned after a 5-2 loss to Leicester City at the Etihad Stadium on Super Sunday.

Gary Neville commented on Liverpool’s win against Arsenal and City’s loss to Leicester and talked about Gary Neville’s podcast, the former Manchester United defender was effusive in his praise of Liverpool and warned Guardiola and his team of the title …

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Neville’s change of mind

I chose Manchester City before the start of the season, when they asked us to make our predictions, just because they were going to respond. I thought they would do more in the transfer market, but I’m in a position where, and it’s only three games, I’m going to change my mind.

It is not for Sunday. Obviously I was at the Etihad on Sunday to watch Leicester beat City 5-2, but I only saw Liverpool, even in that first game against Leeds, where some people realized they were not in their prime, they were careless and you could reach them.

That was a crazy game, the kind that I have been involved in myself and if you come out of those games above, when you are not at your best, it shows something.

They also signed two players after that game and then went to Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea and did the business. Then they have Arsenal at home, another team near the top of the league, and they are back in business.

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Liverpool ‘exceptional’ shows the way

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Against Arsenal, the performance of the first half was outstanding. When you are on the porch, you see more in terms of the shape against the corners. They took their work very seriously. His reaction to giving the ball away was impeccable across the field.

The first three set the tone, but everyone else supports them. They were absolutely exceptional.

You can bring out Jordan Henderson and James Milner, who used to be the workhorses of this team, and now they are all workhorses.

Naby Keita is someone who has taken a couple of years to catch up, but now you watch him play and it seems like he’s coming. Fabinho advances in the game and does not sweat. Georginio Wijnaldum is a player who you never give credit to, but he does everything very well.

The whole team, from the goalkeeper to Roberto Firmino at the top of the field, is spectacular.

‘The signings a declaration of intentions of Liverpool’

It was a brilliant performance against Arsenal. You are looking at a team that is in sync, together in possession and out of possession. They can control the game, they can counterattack and they can press. They can mix it up with you if necessary and can score from set pieces. They can do everything you would like a good soccer team to do.

The signings of Thiago Alcantara and Diogo Jota were great movements because they signaled intention. They needed to get stronger in midfield with someone who can play, control the game and do something a little different than the rest of them, and then Jota up front, which brings real quality in the top three, but not make them nervous to the point where want to leave. It was a smart signing.

They are a really superior team and we know that from what they have accomplished in recent years, but they seem to have come back to do it again.

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‘Liverpool one level above Man City’

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I’m talking about the fact that players are missing, and in the last 12 months we’ve mentioned it, I don’t know how many times. I can mention that they have been delayed for a week to start and may not be up to date from a fitness point of view. I can mention all these things.

We know that Pep Guardiola does not have the team he wants on the field at the moment, he is signing another central defender.

But when I see Liverpool’s application in the game against Arsenal and Manchester City’s application, it’s a different level. And that’s the only thing Pep Guardiola will really have to affect.

For two seasons, his transition from losing the ball to getting the ball back was off the scale, the way we’ve never seen it before. He was taking Barcelona to the Premier League.

Nev Title Warning for City

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They have come out of it. They came out of it last season and I think at that point I felt that with the levels that they had reached they were always going to push themselves a bit. I was hoping they would start this season really, really on that.

Against the Wolves they were good, but Sunday was really worrying because I didn’t see that same urgency and application in the game.

Pep Guardiola is the best coach in the world, his team has been outstanding and will improve, without a doubt, but you have to be careful.

They lost eight points to Liverpool in the first eight games of last season and found they couldn’t catch up. They can’t afford to do that against this Liverpool team, it’s too good.