At the start of the season, Sarri repeatedly noted it would take a few months for his methods to truly take hold, while at the time there were signs his early work was bearing fruit. The problem is not necessarily that Maurizio Sarri's football isn't working, it's that Chelsea aren't playing Maurizio Sarri's football or any discernible style at all.

They had that many against Chelsea in just 25. It took Manchester City 37 minutes to score four goals against Burton in the Carabao Cup the other week. Liverpool knew they would have to be at their peak to win the league even with City stumbling, but if that 6-0 thrashing of Chelsea is anything to go by, even their best might not turn out to be good enough. Also, it will have been a relief that they held on to, then extended an early lead, rather than relinquishing it - as they did against Leicester and West Ham.īut while they will have been encouraged on Saturday, on Sunday the task before them was made stark by a Manchester City team who blew away a theoretical challenger in Chelsea. Liverpool won't be getting ahead of themselves having beaten a Bournemouth side who have lost their past nine away games, but the 3-0 victory was at least a nerve-steadier, a reminder that two draws wasn't a colossal crisis.

Nick Miller runs the rule over the Premier League's biggest storylines. Manchester City fire shot over Liverpool's bow while furthering Chelsea's woe

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