Man Utd legend Rooney predicts Liverpool will finally win Premier League after 30-year drought
WAYNE ROONEY has risked the wrath of his two former clubs by backing Liverpool to win this season’s Premier League.
The Reds maintained their perfect start to the season in controversial fashion yesterday when Sadio Mane won a late penalty which James Milner scored to give the home side a 2-1 win over Leicester.
The Anfield side sit eight points above Pep Guardiola’s City ahead of their game against Wolves today.
But according to ex-Manchester United and Everton striker Rooney, 33, Liverpool’s lead in insurmountable.
He told iFL TV: “In my opinion, Liverpool look the strongest.
“City are a fantastic team.
“I think Liverpool have improved on last year, whereas City have stayed at that level of great consistency, so I think Liverpool.”
After the game Jurgen Klopp was asked whether his side’s perfect run will come to an end any time soon.
And the German said: “Everyone will feel it in the season that if you get a point against Leicester it will be a success for 95 per cent of all the teams.
“So in a difficult week like we had with a very intense game on Wednesday and a really strong opponent, Leicester City obviously doesn’t have to play [in midweek] – not yet, next year they will.
“We start then with 60 exceptional minutes, the first half was exceptional, we put them under pressure, the energy levels of the boys is just incredible, how we do and do and do again.
“The only problem we had was that we only scored one goal, and it was clear there will be a moment in the game where Leicester probably will come up a little bit because our energy level dropped.
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“And for that, each goal you can score before helps massively [but] we had only one.
“They came up, had more possession, when we had the ball we were not clear anymore – we lost easy balls and were passing these square balls.
“They didn’t even have to press, we just gave them the ball and they had their counter-attacks, which is a big strength of them.”