The time has come for Liverpool to embrace the following main hurdle of their first Premier League marketing campaign underneath new head coach Arne Slot.
The Merseysiders will welcome fellow high-flyers Chelsea to Anfield after having secured an 18-point haul from their opening seven top-flight video games in 2024/25.
There are nonetheless doubts aplenty over the Reds’ title credentials in gentle of what was objectively deemed to be a beneficiant early fixture schedule.
Certainly, it solely emboldened pundits to write down off Liverpool within the title race forward of the October worldwide break.
Gary Neville counters Paul Merson’s Liverpool v Chelsea rating prediction
Gary Neville backed Liverpool to take all three factors towards Chelsea on their return to home soccer this weekend.
The previous Manchester United fullback went for a 3-1 victory to the hosts, which might guarantee they keep their place on the high of the Premier League desk going into the following matchweek.
“I believe Liverpool beat them. I believe Chelsea, they’re a bit youthful… 3-2? 3-1? Liverpool 3-1,” the MNF host spoke on The Overlap.
“I believe will probably be an enormous environment that day, I believe Chelsea will simply…”
Will simply… crumble? That seems to have been the course of journey Neville was taking place while discussing the tie with Wayne Rooney.
Now we’ll by no means know!
Fellow Sky pundit Paul Merson, nonetheless, was of a special thoughts when previewing the Blues’ impending journey to Anfield.
The previous Arsenal star backed Enzo Maresca’s Chelsea to safe a 2-2 draw at L4. Nonetheless, he was gracious sufficient to acknowledge {that a} Liverpool win would set up Arne Slot’s aspect as real title challengers.
We’d prefer to suppose the character of our optimistic begin to the marketing campaign means we’re already within the body!
Nonetheless, we’re positive our Dutch head coach and his squad are more than pleased being underrated all through to the enterprise finish of the marketing campaign.
