Carragher explains why he doesn’t want Liverpool repeat in PL title prediction

Jamie Carragher says that while he hopes Liverpool win the Premier League again in 2020/21, this time around it looks a little different.

The Reds picked up their first top-flight league title in 30 years when they finally got their hands on the trophy shortly after football’s restart last season, and Carragher believes they can do so again in the coming campaign.

But with Liverpool streets ahead of the competition in 2019/20, and eventually winning the league by 18 points after easing up having clinched the title with seven games to go, the Sky Sports pundit hopes we could see a fight to the finish in the new season.

“I’m a Liverpool man and I want to see them win the league again, but maybe not in the manner they did it last season,” he told TEAMtalk.

“We want and we need to see a competitive title race I want to see the other teams get closer to Liverpool because we need it to be more competitive.

“We don’t want any team to be 20 or 30 points ahead and while I want Liverpool to win the league, I’d like to see them in the tight title race and winning it on the last day of the season in exciting fashion, going down to the wire and with less points than they got last season.”

But while he thinks it could be a closer title race, Carragher still sees only two clubs as being good enough to win the league.

“If the top one or two teams are getting 99 and 100 points every season, it means there are fewer points to go around,” he added.

“So I would like to see the total points needed to win the Premier League go down to 90 points this season as that would mean we will have a more interesting title race.

“That could happen as I expect all the teams trying to chase Liverpool to do better than they did last season, but I only see two teams in contention for the title and that will be the top two for the last couple of years.

“The chasing pack have to bridge the gap on Liverpool and that’s why teams like Chelsea have been spending money in the transfer market to try and make that happen.

“But Liverpool and City are a long way ahead of the rest and I don’t see that changing.”

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