Liverpool have been battling for the Premier League title for some time with Manchester City, and last season, with Arsenal, they were in a three-way title race until the end of the season. This season, the club is looking for a new style of play with manager Arne Slott.
Although the Dutchman’s demands are not yet 100% reflected, they have shown a mixture of fast, vertical football, which Klopp left behind, and possession football, where they create games from the back, and have won all three games so far to sit at the top of the table.
Defensively, the new Liverpool are less likely to be easily exploited behind the final line and have an overall impression of greater stability, but former England midfielder Paul Scholes, who played a central role for Manchester United as a player, has suggested that his former rivals could win the domestic league in their current campaign. He suggested that they could win the league.
“When you see the squad, the first XI was brilliant, that’s probably their easiest game out of the three they have had,”
“Then we saw the subs warm up and go past us, I thought ‘wow, this is a proper squad of players’. I think he (Slot) has been quite fortunate to walk into that. Of course, he has to put his own stamp on it and I am sure he will do as we have seen in the first three games.”
“They look defensively better, although, they did concede a couple of chances – we talk about the six forwards they have got. They also have five brilliant midfield players. You think of Curtis Jones, who isn’t here today. Harvey Elliott, who can come into that. I think he really likes them three (Gravenberch, Mac Allister and Szoboszlai). He didn’t change them three. It was all the forwards. The right-back or the left-back. There is a real dominance about that Liverpool squad. They could really challenge for that title this year.”
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