City - Liverpool : who has the fitness edge ?

[Frogfish]

Stats say we do. But City could be fresher after more rotation (and a bigger squad).

Read the article below and especially the sprints and distance covered recently. We have greatly increased both whereas City have fallen off a cliff.

The injuries chart is interesting too .. we have had 50% more injuries than City.

We also have the advantage of each of our opponents being lower rated that City's ... bar the last game (vs Wolves and Brighton respectively).

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/11689601/liverpool-or-man-city-whos-fresher

 

[ibromurph]

Haven't we had to run more because we've simply played tougher games recently? (Spurs, Bayern twice, Everton, United, Southampton, next Chelsea).

City have had it relatively easy of late. Your likes of Cardiff, Brighton, Schalke, Bournemouth, West Ham.. teams who turned up, accepting they were already beat and happy to keep the scoreline to one or two goals.

 

[Frogfish]

Haven't we had to run more because we've simply played tougher games recently? (Spurs, Bayern twice, Everton, United, Southampton, next Chelsea).

City have had it relatively easy of late. Your likes of Cardiff, Brighton, Schalke, Bournemouth, West Ham.. teams who turned up, accepting they were already beat and happy to keep the scoreline to one or two goals.

There may be many reasons for it but having watched the City games I have to say they don't seem to have the same ebullience as they did earlier this season. So not as full of Pep.

 

[Mystic]

Considering City are competiting on four fronts, and us on two, I'd expect City to tire more, regardless of squad size.

 

[StevieM]

Haven't we had to run more because we've simply played tougher games recently? (Spurs, Bayern twice, Everton, United, Southampton, next Chelsea).

City have had it relatively easy of late. Your likes of Cardiff, Brighton, Schalke, Bournemouth, West Ham.. teams who turned up, accepting they were already beat and happy to keep the scoreline to one or two goals.

Haven’t you learnt anything?

We have to run more because we don’t effortlessly control games like The Bestest Team Ever.

In any case, we’re only running around more to make it look like it’s not a conspiracy by everyone to rob The Bestest Team Ever of their rightful quadruple.

 

[6TimesaRed]

 

[tombrown]

Bollocks! We are already 3 points down next season ... add that to our 25 point deficit from last season, which obviously carries over as it wasn't played this time round, and we'll be fighting relegation