Manchester City: The King's Courage!

This year's Premier League is witnessing the most exciting two-horse race in history between the rich Manchester City and Liverpool. Both are also showing impressive performance and keeping close to each other on the rankings. Up to now, the top spot has been swapped more than 10 times between the two teams. This is an unprecedented number in the Premier League era.

Entering the most important stage of the season, the reigning Premier League champions face many challenges. In just over 2 weeks, the Spanish strategist's team has clashed with Tottenham 3 times in the Champions League and domestic tournaments; followed by a fateful derby with the Red Devils of Manchester.

Pep Guardiola's bravery in helping the Etihad team overcome the most difficult moment of the season. Photo: ATP

It can be said that, looking at the tight schedule and opponents of the Etihad team, many people thought that the blue half of Manchester would stumble against one of the two teams in the "Big Six". In fact, in the Champions League arena, The Citizens still returned to their familiar "smart at home, stupid in the market" ego when they were bitterly eliminated in the quarter-finals by a fellow countryman Tottenham.

But in the domestic arena, it was a different story. The reigning champion still showed the spirit of a "destructive machine" to wipe out Pochestino's army with a minimal score to continue chasing the team that is also in high form, Liverpool, in the race for the championship in the highest arena of the foggy country.

After overcoming Tottenham with the only goal of young player Phil Foden, Pep Guardiola's army also showed the spirit of the defending champion when turning their sworn neighbors into losers right at the "Theatre of Dreams". The ones who brought sorrow to the Red Devils of Manchester were Bernando Silva, who is holding the most important link in Pep's tactical system, and substitute player Sane.

By defeating the same city team in the make-up match of round 31, The Citizens are currently on a streak of 11 consecutive wins in the domestic arena. If Pep Guardiola's team can maintain their winning streak from now until the official end of the season, the Etihad team will end this season's Premier League with a streak of 14 consecutive wins. This is the second longest winning streak in Premier League history (less than the record of 18 wins they set last season). In addition, they also broke their own scoring record when they surpassed the milestone of 156 goals in a season.

Defeating the Red Devils of Manchester, Man City opened the door to the Premier League championship this season. Photo: Getty

With this impressive achievement, the Etihad Stadium team is the towering wall preventing an extremely strong Liverpool from advancing to the first Premier League championship in history. Pep Guardiola's army has risen to the top of the rankings with 1 point more than the opponent.

The Etihad team now holds the right to decide the throne in their own hands when the opponents ahead are only Burnley, Leicester City and Brighton. These are not too big obstacles for a team showing destructive form like Man City.

In a season that witnessed the excellence of the team on the way to conquering the championship in the highest arena of the foggy country like Liverpool. Fans have just seen the mettle of Pep Guardiola and his team. They knew how to wipe away the bitter tears when being eliminated in the Champions League arena to quickly stand up and overcome the final barriers on the way to the throne when the season officially ended.

With that spirit, Liverpool could very well become the greatest runner-up team in the Premier League era. Pep Guardiola's team is also on the verge of becoming the first team in 10 years to successfully defend the championship in the highest league in the country known as the land of fog. Glory is only 3 matches away from the Etihad Stadium team.