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Are Liverpool going under the radar in the Premier League title race? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It seems that Arsenal is getting all the attention in the media when discussing the team to challenge Manchester City for the title whilst Liverpool are going under the radar. This is probably because Arsenal finished a close second to Manchester City last season. But it must be remembered that Liverpool finished a point behind Manchester City two seasons ago with 92 points whilst challenging for the quadruple. Also, the current Liverpool squad contains many players from that season and some were part of the Premier League and Champions League winning sides. Klopp seems to have a greater prowess of taking a team close to/winning a title.

In addition, Liverpool have had more difficult fixtures this season, they have played four of the big six (+ Newcastle) away whereas Arsenal have only played two and are still yet to play Manchester City away.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes and no. A lot of people were completely willing to write us off on the basis of last season saying that we would barely scrape Top 4 when I personally knew from the start we definitely were going to compete at a much higher level this time around, but at the same time, I don't think we're capable of going the distance right now. Arsenal aren't as exciting but their mentality looks a lot better and City are always a monster in the second half of the season, especially once KDB comes back from injury

Our main issue is that we lack a proper holding midfielder. We have players who can play in that position but we lack a player like Rodri or even Declan Rice. It leaves us way too open at the back and vulnerable to fast counter attacks since Trent is constantly bombing forward and Alisson, Van Dijk & Matip/Konate can only do so much

As we saw against Luton away and even Everton at Anfield, we really struggle against low blocks. We find it difficult to break them down and when we try and push for a winner, it leaves us open at the back with two centre backs caught out because they were trying to score a header from a setpiece at the other end of the pitch, two fullbacks who's best attributes doesn't consist of defending and a #8 playing as a #6 as our main line of defense. We've been mostly bailed out so far as we saw yesterday but like Arsenal last year in some respects, I have a feeling it will catch up to us at some point