FORMER STRIKER DIOUF SAYS LIVERPOOL CARAFED IT LAST SEASON.
Former striker El Hadji Diouf has stimulated that, Premier League leaders Liverpool are no strangers to cracking under pressure, having “bottled it” last season to finish second.
Liverpool scythed down rivals last season for a tight battle with Manchester City before losing the title to Pep Guardiola’s side by a solitary point.
Diouf said he doesn’t see them doing as well as they did last season,” Diouf, who scored six goals in 80 appearances for the Merseyside club between 2002-05, told Dfm sports.
They had the chance to win the league title; they had it in their hands and then let it slip. They were seven points ahead around Christmas – how City got it, in the end, beats my mind.
Liverpool, who captured a sixth European Cup in June, lost only one game in the Premier League last season – against City – and Diouf was baffled by how Jurgen Klopp’s team had not translated their dominance into a trophy.
If you have only one defeat in a whole season, surely you can’t say that you didn’t win the league,” the former Senegal international added.
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