Jonathan WILSON
he case for the defence For the first half an hour of their visit to Chelsea, the game that would ultimately seal Liverpool’s first Premier League title, Manchester City looked comfortable. They passed the ball about slickly, as they had in their post-shutdown wins over Arsenal and Burnley. Watching their mastery of the ball, the cleverness of the interchanges, it was hard to understand how they could be so far behind Liverpool. Then a free-kick was cleared, Benjamin Mendy got in team-mate Ilkay
