Liverpool, with manager Arne Slot taking over the team and integrating his own tastes, including rearranging the midfield structure, have continued their good form since the start of the Premier League season.
They have also maintained a consistent record in the Champions League, winning all their games.
They have the ability to win close games, and the adaptability to correct a poor first half in the second half. Jurgen Klopp’s goal-scoring momentum is also intact, while the defensive side of the game looks particularly improved.
Former Liverpool forward Michael Owen, who was famed as a ‘wonderkid’ during his playing days, said his old club would go on to win the Premier League, but that Arsenal could be the only team to rival them.
“They’re [Liverpool] absolutely loving it aren’t they, you can only imagine that dressing room,”
“People will say, they [Liverpool] will come out and say, ‘we don’t look at other teams, we just concentrate on ourselves’, and they’re right to do that and they are concentrating on themselves, they are motoring along really well.”
“But everyone around them is falling away at the same time, Chelsea lost today, Manchester City dropped points again, and they’re probably out of it now. When I look at the league table I’d be astonished if Liverpool don’t go on to win it now.”
“I think their only danger could be Arsenal. I don’t fancy Chelsea, I think they are too young, too inexperienced. Forest are having a great season but they can’t sustain that. Newcastle are too far behind, even though they are coming into good form at the moment, Bournemouth can’t challenge either.”
“For me it’s Arsenal and Arsenal only in terms of danger to them [Liverpool]. But I think they’re only a danger to themselves, the way they are playing, unless they implode themselves, unless they have a Manchester City moment, it looks like they’re streaking clear.”
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There is still a long way to go in the season. There may come a time when we are out of form and a time when we have a string of injuries. We have the squad to get through that, but we have struggled a bit with the defensive rotations in recent games due to Ibrahima Konate, Connor Bradley and Kostas Tsimikas leaving one after the other.
Nevertheless, the reserves also have talented players sitting on the bench. Can the Dutchman’s skill at the helm, plus the national-level players, come together to share the victory at a packed Anfield…?