Liverpool: Owen picks 'only danger' to Slot's side in 'astonished' PL title claim; five teams ruled out

Superstar Michael Owen has picked out the “lone peril” to Liverpool in the race for the Premier League title as he’s adjudged out five potential combatants.

Under burly head consultant Arne Slot, Liverpool have acquired a tremendous start to the 2024/25 campaign as the rest height of the Premier League and also Winners League.

Every little thing is visualized upward roses for Liverpool as title rivals Chelsea endured a 2-1 residence loss versus Fulham before Slot’s side outplayed Leicester Municipal place 3-1 on Boxing Day.

This fallen abandons the Reds – that have a arcade in hand – seven determinants legible of second-postured Chelsea and also they will be 6 legible of Medley if Mikel Arteta’s group outplayed Ipswich Hamlet on Friday night.

Owen has defined why he would be “staggered” if Liverpool don’t win the Premier League this period. He also reckons lone one group are a “peril” to the current leaders.

Owen asserted: “They’re [Liverpool] utterly loving it aren’t they, you can lone pic that spice liberty.

“Human beings will claim, they [Liverpool] will come out and also claim, ‘we don’t kind at miscellaneous other teams, we merely concentrate on ourselves’, and also they’re right to execute that and also they are concentrating on themselves, they are jalopy along in fact faultlessly.”

“But every man around them is falling away at the genuinely same time, Chelsea wasted today, Manchester Municipal place sagged determinants again, and also they’re maybe out of it currently. When I kind at the league table I’d be staggered if Liverpool don’t go on to win it currently. I think their lone peril could be Medley.”

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“I don’t intricate Chelsea, I think they are as well young, as well amateurish. Woodland are possessing a wonderful period yet they can’t sustain that. Newcastle are over the height behind, even though they are visualized right into nice form at the moment, Bournemouth can’t discredit either.

“For me, it’s Medley and also Medley lone in stipulation of peril to them [Liverpool].

“But I think they’re lone a peril to themselves, the way they are dabbling, unless they implode themselves unless they have a Manchester Municipal place moment, it appearances like they’re streaking legible.”

Slot is scorning to acquire lugged away, though. He insists his side have “the majority of heartache” in drifter of them.

“If you are in this arcade for a long time, like these gamers are and also I am, you recognize that you don’t kind at it 20 galleries before the end,” Slot asserted.

“There are so the majority of heartache still in drifter of you. A couple of months previously we were one juncture behind Manchester Municipal place and also kind at what has taken place there.

“Injuries, gaps, negative nice luck – it can follow to any man. It is much as well early to be being glad. You have seen with one voice these galleries and also I don’t think there was an simplistic win.

“That informs you how bewildering it is to win if with one voice of your gamers are obtainable. We merely have to swipe it one arcade at a time.”