Are Liverpool winning the league this season, well if you hang around Liverpool, you won’t hear a whisper of it.
The Scousers are far to experienced and a little superstitious about getting carried away in November, but you can bet your bottom dollar, every Reds fan is thinking about it.
So do the Reds actually have a chance?
Liverpool winning the league
Liverpool FC have taken early control of the Premier League title race, but Alexis Mac Allister says he didn’t think they would be contenders at the start of the season.
That was the literal translation of the midfielders response to TNT sports, but in actual fact he was saying the team was not focussed on winning the league in pre-season, there focus was to build a new era.
Arne Slot’s Liverpool side beat Aston Villa 2-0 at Anfield after reigning champions Manchester City had earlier slipped up 2-1 at Brighton.
The results gave Liverpool a five-point lead at the top over Pep Guardiola’s men, who have now lost four successive games ( two in the league) That is hardly a catastrophe for Man City.
Liverpool are only the sixth team in the Premier League’s 33 seasons to be at least five points clear after 11 games. The other five – including Liverpool in 2019-20 – went on to win the league.
Top of the league by five points
“If we are top of the league by five points then it means something,” said Mac Allister. Who went on to put it context. “But we have to go step by step. If you asked me before the season started I would not say we were candidates, but now it looks like [we are].”
Alexis Mac Allister LFC midfielder and World Cup Winner
The Egypt international who keeps on scoring
The Egypt international scored for a fourth successive league game when he netted the second at Anfield on Saturday night. And despite his slightly different role in the team, he keeps on scoring. He is by far the most important player As Mac Allister suggested, guaranteed to get goals.
Former Liverpool winger Steve McManaman believes the Reds have the experience to maintain their challenge at the top.
“This group of players have been long into a campaign, some of them have won the Premier League and the Champions League, so of course they can sustain it,” he said on TNT Sports.
There is a long way to go
While Liverpool are in the ideal position right now, their supporters will know there is a long way to go in the race And as yesterday’s game shows, they have to keep the team fit. Arnie Slot offers Trent injury update.
Manchester City have won the last four Premier League seasons in a row and while some of those have been comfortable, they have also had to overcome the pressure of being the side hunting the leaders.
Two seasons ago they trailed Arsenal by four points after 10 games but battled back to ultimately finish five points clear.
In 2020-21 it was Chelsea who led the Premier League at the same stage as Liverpool lead this time.
The gap on that occasion was just three points after 11 games, but Manchester City went on a run of 12 consecutive wins that saw them 13 points clear of the Blues by the end of January.
