Is Arne Slot privately accepting that Liverpool may simply have one hand on the Premier League trophy?
Nearly everybody outdoors the Reds’ administration group 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 may 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 may very well be determined at Anfield in opposition to Tottenham Hotspur the next Sunday.
Slot not bothered about when or the place the title is received
When Slot was requested after right now’s match about the potential for profitable 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 concerning the particulars – simply that it occurs.
The Dutchman answered (by way of 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 tough sufficient for us.
“First win two and that’s the one factor we must always give attention to and this week we must always attempt to enhance, enhance, enhance increasingly to present ourselves a greater probability of profitable a recreation of soccer subsequent week.”
Liverpool nonetheless want to ensure of it, nevertheless 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 received, as long as we win it.
There are hundreds of thousands of Reds supporters who’ve solely lived by means of one top-flight triumph, and that in fact 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 additional pleasing about clinching a league title by yourself floor in entrance of your individual followers, however we’ll take it wherever and anyhow that it comes.
After all, it should be pressured that Liverpool nonetheless have to earn these six factors to ensure of turning into champions – and we shouldn’t overlook that we virtually threw away two with Andy Robertson’s late personal objective right now – however even probably the most cautious and pessimistic of Reds are certainly now believing it’s solely a matter of when and never if!
