Alan Shearer has provided a recent verdict on the Premier League title race after Manchester Metropolis’s complete defeat on Saturday.
The champions sunk to a 3rd top-flight loss in a row as they have been thrashed 0-4 at residence by Tottenham final evening, and a win for leaders Liverpool at backside membership Southampton right now would open an eight-point hole between the highest two forward of their head-to-head conflict at Anfield subsequent Sunday.
Pep Guardiola admitted after his crew’s hammering by Spurs that an 11-point hole to the Reds in early December could be extraordinarily troublesome to reel in, and the division’s all-time main goalscorer has voiced the same sentiment.
Talking on Match of the Day on BBC Sport, Shearer stated: “Liverpool away is an enormous sport subsequent weekend for Man Metropolis. For the primary time I might have actual issues over them. I’m seeing too many worrying indicators. If Liverpool win on Sunday and subsequent week, I feel Man Metropolis would discover it actually robust.”
Alternative knocks for Liverpool
Many Reds followers would possibly nonetheless be apprehensive about the potential of surging forward within the title race because of Metropolis’s latest penchant for hitting an imperious run of kind within the second half of the season.
Nonetheless, the way through which they have been ripped aside by Tottenham was most not like what we’ve seen from Guardiola’s crew over the previous decade, and it’s evident that the lack of Rodri to long-term damage has had a destabilising impact on them just like us and Virgil van Dijk in 2020/21.
If Liverpool can win their subsequent two video games and transfer 11 factors away from the champions, it wouldn’t be an unassaible lead however it’d go away us in a commanding place to face up to a few inevitable setbacks and nonetheless be accountable for our future within the title race.
The upcoming fixtures in opposition to Southampton and Metropolis characterize a vastly inviting alternative to grab a agency grip on pole place and land an unlimited psychological blow on our nearest challengers. The onus is now in Slot’s crew to take full benefit of their rivals’ uncharacteristic malaise.
