Is Arne Slot privately accepting that Liverpool may simply have one hand on the Premier League trophy?
Virtually everybody outdoors the Reds’ administration workforce and taking part in squad will consider that’s the case after the leaders beat West Ham this afternoon with an 89th-minute Virgil van Dijk winner to go 13 factors away from Arsenal with simply six matches remaining.
The Merseysiders know that six extra factors will assure league title quantity 20, and so they might even clinch it subsequent week in the event that they beat Leicester and the Gunners have been to lose at Ipswich earlier within the day. If not, it could possibly be determined at Anfield towards Tottenham Hotspur the next Sunday.
Slot not bothered about when or the place the title is gained
When Slot was requested after at present’s match about the potential of successful the Premier League at Liverpool’s dwelling floor in the event that they and Arsenal each win their subsequent couple of video games, he insisted that he doesn’t care in regards to the particulars – simply that it occurs.
The Dutchman answered (through liverpoolfc.com): “If I’ve to win it 15 kilometres from right here… I don’t care the place to win it. We all know we nonetheless need to win two extra video games, which I’ve tried to return again to each single time: it has been on 32 events troublesome sufficient for us.
“First win two and that’s the one factor we should always concentrate on and this week we should always attempt to enhance, enhance, enhance increasingly to offer ourselves a greater likelihood of successful a recreation of soccer subsequent week.”
Liverpool nonetheless want to ensure of it, however it appears a formality now!
Liverpool followers will agree with Slot about one factor – none of us are actually bothered about how, when or the place the Premier League title is gained, as long as we win it.
There are hundreds of thousands of Reds supporters who’ve solely lived by way of one top-flight triumph, and that after all was diluted partly by the worldwide pandemic stopping the LFC household from having fun with a large-scale communal celebration.
Admitttedly there’s one thing further pleasing about clinching a league title by yourself floor in entrance of your individual followers, however we’ll take it anyplace and anyhow that it comes.
In fact, it have to be careworn that Liverpool nonetheless have to earn these six factors to ensure of changing into champions – and we shouldn’t overlook that we nearly threw away two with Andy Robertson’s late personal purpose at present – however even essentially the most cautious and pessimistic of Reds are certainly now believing it’s solely a matter of when and never if!
