Mentality Monsters: Will Steven Gerrard Keep Liverpool’s Quadruple Bid Alive?

The former Liverpool captain, Steven Gerrard will be in the dugout with Man City manager, Pep Guardiola on Sunday as he looks to deny City, any chance of silverware this season to keep the unprecedent quadruple alive for his former team, where he spent 17years playing for the Merseyside club. Liverpool is chasing for unprecedent quadruple in English topflight league, having secured league and the FA Cup against Chelsea in those two occasions, Liverpool has been praised for their strength and intensity which the manager, Jurgen Klopp described his players as “mentality monsters” the energy and momentum are with Liverpool in chasing for the bid while they still have score to settle in Paris with Los Blancos.

Liverpool’s win at Southampton took the title bid to the last day, it is going to be interesting one to watch, City’s fate is at their own hands win and win the league, due to Gerrard’s strong affiliation with the Merseyside club, he will be eager to do a very big favour to his old team, where he failed to win the league as a player, it could be a better time to make up for those times, as it will be the icing on the cake to sum up his cherish relationship with Liverpool. Aston Villa are the underdogs here, and City will do everything to pipe them and win the league.

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Early January Liverpool was written off the title race fallen behind the leaders with 14points, the task becomes herculean for the Klopp boys, but they turned and deal with the pressure properly with the right mentality wining Carabao Cup and FA Cup, is the start of a dream season where nobody expects them to reach to that climax. Liverpool knowing that they have to school Wolves properly while waiting on Gerrard’s team to complete the other job, it might not be only Steven Gerrard but also Philippe Coutinho will be looking to make up the toxic relationship endured with Liverpool’s fans, if he happens to be one of these players that will deny Man City the title at Etihad.

Liverpool and Man City, over the years have established themselves at the top, and the English premier league title is now two-man horse title, they met three times this season with two draws and Liverpool knocking them out of FA Cup, Liverpool’s Mo Salah is the top scorer and top assister, despite his goal drought in recent matches and has been nominated for PFA player of the year alongside City’s key player, Kevin De Bruyne who has been pivotal for the Manchester side, both teams have different approach to the game while City play possessional football, Liverpool anchor their game on intensity and energy, it is a big shock not to see Sadio Mane on that list of PFA player of the year.

Steven Gerrard clearly knows that the entire Liverpool football club will be relying on him to hand them title since they broke the 30years await of premier title, during the press conference he had admitted that his phone has been busy “I totally understand and respect the external noise and questions that have been coming my way for some time” he went to further to say that “Liverpool are involved in a title race and I spent a lot of time there. We will go out at the weekend and give it everything we have got to get points for Aston Villa. If that inevitably helps Liverpool, fantastic”. The former captain already knew what it means for Liverpool on their chasing unprecedent quadruple bid.