Liverpool are terrible defensively, they are there for the taking next week.
But they sure can put the shit teams to the sword, and there's more points to take from them than there is from the rest.
We could end up getting 12 points from City and Liverpool, but come 3rd. I'm not complaining, that just shows you that winning leagues isn't about the big games. It's about the general milieu of the season.
That probably explains how we're in the Champions League Semi Finals. When we play big boys where there will be space we can do it. But against the nitty gritty, you get no time and space, and unfortunately our team or tactics or whatever cannot deal with the squeeze.