I think it can be valid if you consider that maybe zeke wanted levi to capture him so he can infiltrate eldia from with in , honestly zeke lossing so easily have always been suspious to me , I think he did it to find eren and brainwash him so he can get the cordinatior titan power from eren or make eren destroy eldia himself
But Levi in a previous chapter he said he has felt that before a few times. When he was sitting across from Mikasa and actually discussing it with other people present.
The other person would prob be Erwin considering it said that they can trick themselves into thinking someone is their master but then again he had his skills before then too while he was fighting for his and his friends' survival back then.
WAIT!!! THEORY
What if Levi actually devoted himself to humanity making him actually Humanity's Strongest!!!!

I call bullshit on Ackerman's protecting titans. I mean... Levi gonna chop Zeke's limbs off and he better do so.