Opinion | Premier League leaders Liverpool could make 2020 their greatest year yet
- Jurgen Klopp’s world and European champions keep getting better as title challengers slip up in English Premier League
- Club eye third Uefa Champions League final in a row with return to Madrid, the scene of last summer’s first trophy
For the Kop, 2019 has been a delight. It has been one of the greatest 12 months in Liverpool’s history. Fans at Anfield do not want the year to end – except that 2020 promises to be even more momentous.
Jurgen Klopp’s team reached the halfway point in the English Premier League season with a thunderous 4-0 victory over second-placed Leicester City at King Power Stadium. It was a breathtaking display.
Klopp’s team are confounding expectations on a weekly basis.
The main aim is to win the league. The last time the Reds claimed the title was 1990. A huge swathe of the fan base have never experienced the feeling of being English champions. Hope, anticipation, desperation and craving cascade from the stands at Anfield. Winning the league would sweep away three decades of pain. That moment feels close.
Younger fans have heard stories from their elders about the great sides. The new generation had grown to accept that they would never see the feats that their forebears witnessed. Until Klopp came along.