Well you could say we've used the gears too much to compensate and wrecked the gear box, to keep an analogy rolling.
The 18/19 pl season had
30 wins
7 draws
1 loss (that city game)
Goals scored 89
Goals conceded 22 (close to that thommo teams record of 16? - which given the favouring of forwards since then is a great achievement)
+67 goal difference
The defence had a feeling of invincibility that year and I often felt like we could see out a game handily.
The CL exploits, just a fantastic campaign. Great memories.
19/20
Won 32
Drew 3
Lost 3
Scored 85
Conceded 33
+52 GD
The defence felt more fragile but still very good, did feel like we'd always find a way to win or not lose in the league. Of course people can point to covid as an interference to our end to the league, but mentality monsters and all that
Much of the same in the CL groupstages and an early enough exit from the CL.
For me the 2 extra points in the league, don't balance out well against less losses, more goals scored, less conceded and the knock on goal difference swing. The cl title obviously a big difference, real mentality monsters to win no 6.
Winning the title and what that meant for us all is of course a great thing to celebrate and meant loads.
But the season before we developed the mentality monsters mantra and that night at Anfield which ended up getting us no6 v spurs was a big deal.
We needed that title to reap the rewards of a stellar season. Speculation of course but had we not won a cl title that year, lost the final to spurs or seen them beat barca, that would have been a big kick in the balls.
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