I think you’re wrong too . We drew at Anfield and beat them 4-1 at home. We have almost the same record. They are not by far the second best team in the league.
They are the only team in the PL to beat city this season if your doing comparisons of results.
The best comparisons are head-to-head and league performance. Our league performance is almost identical, and we stuff them on the head-to-head. We can have an argument about who’s better, but Liverpool are not better than us “by far”. They’re just not .
You could argue Spurs are better than Man Utd, yet you are 4 points behind.