Manchester City becomes one of the teams that can perform consistently and continue to achieve victory in the 2017/18 season until finally able to end the season by winning two different trophies, the League Cup and Premier League.

Pep Guardiola's success squad carved also sparked other clubs to be able to stop the impressive City in the 2018/19 season to come. One team that has shown its seriousness to be a major competitor is Liverpool.

Although in the previous season they were able to end the season at number four and then advanced to the Champions League final, failure to close the season with any trophy forcing the Reds to be active in the transfer market. As is known they have successfully brought four players.

Seeing the activity of his team in the transfer market, an interesting statement was delivered by Adam Lallana. He feels optimistic if the Reds will be able to compete and stop the dominance of Manchester City in the 2018/19 season.

"Yes, of course, we will be serious in the face of the new season, I and my teammates really want to catch up and stop the dominance of Manchester City," said Lallana as reported by Liverpool Echo.

"Hopefully Liverpool and three or four other teams will be able to steal some points from City, the competition between teams in 2018/19 season seems to be a very interesting thing," he added.

Liverpool's preparations ahead of the welcome of the new season can be said to be quite good, despite having lost to Borussia Dortmund, they managed to win when they met Manchester City and Manchester United.

It is interesting to see the performance of the Anfield-based club in the 2018/19 season, in the inaugural Premier League match, Mohamed Salah and his friends will host West Ham United on 12 August.

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