By Emlyn Begley BBC Sport 12 May From the section Premier League Share this with Digg Facebook Google LinkedIn Reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Copy this link https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48136480 Read more about sharing. Manchester City have sealed the Premier League title, needing a 14-game winning run to keep themselves above Liverpool – the best second-placed team in English top-flight history.It felt like an absolutely relentless battle between two great Premier League sides. But do the stats back that up?The best top two everIt has been a title race of unparalleled quality and the numbers bear that out.This is the form guide for the second half of the season:Man City: WWWWLWWWWWWWWWWWWWWLiverpool: WLWWDDWDWDWWWWWWWWWThe top two have amassed 195 points – a top-flight record for the champions and runners-up. They actually passed the previous Premier League record in their 36th games of the season. They also recorded the most combined wins (62) for a top two.In both those instances, the previous record was last season, although City had provided a much greater share of the combined figures than second-placed Manchester United.City and Liverpool have also broken the record for the fewest combined defeats – five. The top two in 2004-05 (Chelsea and Arsenal) and 2008-09 (Manchester…