Rooney backing Liverpool to beat Manchester City to Premier League title

Wayne Rooney has predicted Liverpool will win the Premier League title, preventing Manchester City from becoming champions for the third straight season.

Rooney, a former Manchester United captain and the club’s all-time record goalscorer, faces seeing his old team’s two rivals fight for the title for the second campaign in a row.

Liverpool moved eight points clear at the top after Saturday’s dramatic defeat of Leicester City, James Milner’s 95th-minute penalty securing a 17th successive league win, with City in action at home to Wolves on Sunday.

Ex-England striker Rooney, who will join Championship side Derby County as a player-coach in January, feels it will be Jurgen Klopp’s Reds who come out on top this term.

“In my opinion, Liverpool look the strongest,” DC United star Rooney told boxing outlet iFL TV after Gennady Golovkin beat Sergiy Derevyanchenko at Madison Square Garden. 

“City are a fantastic team. I think Liverpool have improved on last year. City have stayed at that level of great consistency. I think Liverpool.”

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— Wayne Rooney (@WayneRooney) October 3, 2019

Another of Rooney’s former sides have had a tough start to 2019-20 with Burnley inflicting a fourth successive Premier League loss on Liverpool’s city rivals Everton.

Pressure is growing on Marco Silva with the Toffees 17th in the table, a point above the relegation zone, but Rooney expects his boyhood club to improve.

“I think the players are too good to be where they are in the league,” he added.

“Once results start coming, they’ll definitely get out of it.”