It’s not too usually that Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville agree on footballing issues, however Liverpool are so irresistible proper now that they’ve united the Sky Sports activities duo on one factor!
The Reds underlined their Premier League title credentials with a dominant 2-0 win over Manchester Metropolis at Anfield on Sunday, extending their lead on the summit to 9 factors after 13 video games and pulling 11 away from the reigning champions.
The pundits who predicted that LFC would fall away after Jurgen Klopp’s exit are being confirmed laughably improper by Arne Slot, who’s now received 18 of his first 20 matches answerable for the Merseyside giants.
Pundits speak up Liverpool title probabilities
Talking on Sky Sports activities within the closing minutes of right this moment’s match at Anfield, Neville claimed (by way of BBC Sport): “Arne Slot, taking up from Jurgen Klopp, is in dreamland. It’s a tipping level type of day and Liverpool are actually unimaginable favourites for the Premier League title.”
Carragher appeared to agree along with his colleague’s verdict and wrote off the champions’ hope of a fifth successive title, saying (by way of Sky Sports activities): “I don’t assume there may be anyway again for Man Metropolis now. Typically you might want to lose so individuals realise what you may have completed. This season, Man Metropolis is not going to win the Premier League.”
What a time to be a Liverpool fan!
Liverpool have beforehand had complete leads on the high of the Premier League in December and never gone on to win the title, so Reds supporters mightn’t be getting forward of themselves simply but, particularly with Arsenal build up a powerful run of kind after a lapse previous to the worldwide break.
Nonetheless, the way by which, within the area of 5 days, Slot’s workforce dismantled serial Champions League winners Actual Madrid and a Metropolis facet who’ve dominated the English high flight for a number of years exhibits simply why they now need to be thought of because the frontrunners to dethrone Pep Guardiola’s facet.
LFC are completely flying, in stark distinction to right this moment’s opponents, who’ve now misplaced six of their final seven matches and seemed distinctly second greatest at Anfield. Their supervisor’s response to the house followers’ chants of ‘sacked within the morning’ says all of it in regards to the stress he’s feeling.
The title received’t be received this month or any time quickly, however proper now Liverpool followers should certainly be in dreamland (to make use of Neville’s phrases) at how their workforce is taking part in and reeling off win after win.
