Arne Slot has drummed into anybody that can hear that Liverpool haven’t but been examined this season, however that can all change on return from the worldwide break!
Few may ask for a greater begin below a brand new head coach, with six wins from seven video games within the Premier League nestling the Reds on the prime with the fewest targets conceded (two).
As per the present standings, Liverpool have confronted just one workforce within the prime 10, and they’re chargeable for the one early blemish on Slot’s report.
The extent of fixture problem has not been misplaced on the Dutchman, who just lately stated: “Everyone tells me {that a} prime Premier League desk workforce is more durable to beat than a backside league desk workforce, and we’ve not confronted certainly one of them but.”
Nicely, that’s quickly to vary. In response to Opta Analyst, Liverpool’s subsequent 10 league video games are ranked because the hardest set of fixtures throughout the division, with a mean opponent score of 89.8-out-of-100.
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They are going to meet Chelsea (H), Arsenal (A), Brighton (H), Aston Villa (H), Southampton (A), Man Metropolis (H), Newcastle (A), Everton (A), Fulham (H) and Tottenham (A) – a good break up of dwelling and away.
At present, from this run solely Southampton sit exterior the highest 10 as the remaining occupy each place between second and ninth.
Liverpool will face the primary 4 on this aspect of the November worldwide break, with the following six to kickstart the hectic festive interval.
Arsenal and Man Metropolis, in the meantime, have seen their subsequent 10-game run adjudged to be the tenth and sixteenth hardest fixtures throughout the league – fairly the disparity.
We will definitely understand how severely we are able to take Liverpool’s silverware probabilities after the run has concluded simply earlier than Christmas.
However we are able to’t neglect Slot nonetheless has to juggle Champions League and League Cup fixtures over the approaching weeks, which can additional check his squad and provides us a robust indication of what our expectations might be.
Convey it on!
