"Chasing the Impossible and a Sword of Damocles - Two seasons with Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool" Part 3

My third self-published book and first on Liverpool Football Club is a compendium of diary entries, match reports and personal stories wrapped up and around season's 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 and here, in Part 3 of 5, is a goal by goal breakdown of the final games of the 2021-2022 season for both Liverpool and Manchester City as the destination of the Premier League Title went down to the final game of a quite incredible season.

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"So the two best club football teams in the world finished the day just as they started it, with Manchester City sealing the Premier League title by just a single point. Liverpool, as predicted by a sage old sportswriter, did indeed finish an incredible league season with 92 points and it still wasn’t enough.

Nor were their 2 (TWO!) defeats all season, 94 goals scored and a ridiculous positive goal differential of +68.

A sage old sportswriter also noted recently that this season, the very epitome of the cliché of the “price of success” as they’ve played every single possible fixture on their way to two domestic cup triumphs and with the Champions League Final in Paris in just six days time, the Reds are creaking under the weight of their own success.

They are looking tired, jaded and leggy and again today rested Mo Salah (substitute) and Virgil van Dijk (unused substitute) and worried glances are being shot in the direction of playmaker Thiago Alcântara as he limped away to join Fabinho on the injury list.

Today was a “free hit” as Liverpool always needed a favour from Aston Villa and by jiminy they almost received them in spades. In six days time they face Los Blancos of Real Madrid in the biggest final (for the biggest trophy) of them all.

I still have a feeling as Jürgen Klopp’s fully firing Reds can blow their Spanish rivals away, but they’re limping toward the finish line and need to muster one last enormous effort in Paris in 6 days time.

“Allez! Allez! Allez!”

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