Arne Slot, his players and Liverpool fans have been asked when they knew the Reds would win the Premier League this season. They should've known months ago.
Patting myself on the back a little with this one.... but I'm genuinely curious, when did you think they'd do it? No wrong answers, we're all friends here!
I grew up around Philadelphia in the States supporting the local teams (Phillies, Eagles, Sixers, Flyers). Too many examples during those years (some legendary) of a local team “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” left deep scars.
This past Friday, an Arsenal supporting client of mine that knows my allegiances stated “You’re going to get a point from one of your last 5 games, right?” I told him I couldn’t comment while I got into my fetal position.
That's a good point re Chelsea which I should've included had I thought of it. If they had won at Goodison that day they'd have gone top ahead of Liverpool's game at Tottenham.
That seems ridiculous now when you look at the table but that was the state of play. As the prediction from matchweek 17 in the article shows, they weren't likely to maintain their form.
It will be interesting to monitor the predicted points from the start of next season, to see how things shape up as the season goes along.
With Chelsea dropping points, it seemed to take away some of the pressure, especially as we'd just had the Fulham draw.
Knowing what we know now, we probably would have smashed Spurs anyway, but it was another bonkers game which never seemed in doubt, but also kept me a little nervous. It could have been 5-0, 10-5 as well as 6-3.
MD26. On Saturday Arsenal lost against West Ham. Pretty much knew our win would break them and we delivered against City on their turf. Arsenal followed this up with two draws.
Yeah I think that's probably the general consensus. It definitely felt done, particularly as Liverpool won one of their toughest fixtures of the season.
I generally never do predictions, mostly because I always think we can win, barring really dark periods like the Hodgson "era." But I started to feel really confident after the holiday run. When we entered January at 14-3-1 and I was just this side of furious that we hadn't gotten all three points at Anfield against ManU, I knew then that we were probably the favorites. By that time, we were 6-0 in the CL, too, and it was hard to deny that we were one of the best sides in Europe, to say nothing of England. Not sure I can say that I "knew" we would win it then, but I know that I felt it would be a decent shock if we didn't.
For me it was probably the 2nd half performance at Newcastle, even though we didn’t win.
We had been outplayed in the first half for the first time really all season. Lesser teams would have wilted and taken a defeat, but we were simply brilliant in the 2nd half and should have won the game.
Newcastle played really well on the day at a raucous St James and still couldn’t beat us. That convinced me that we weren’t going to lose many games all season long, and I just couldn’t see how other teams were going to get the sort of points total that we looked destined for.
Of course there was so long to go at that point that injuries could have derailed us, but I had faith in Slots injury prevention record at Feyenoord as that was a big reason we recruited him and his staff.
That's a good shout. The next game, Fulham at home, really helped convince me. They were around fourth in the expected points table at that point and Liverpool largely outplayed them with 10 men. I loved that Slot didn't bring on a defender when Robertson was red carded and sorted it out in a different way.
Yeah that one was in my mind as well. Slot really showed his bravery in that game.
To still try things tactically to go for the win with 10 men for 70 mins was impressive, it showed his commitment to winning games, rather than not losing them, as well as his faith in his squad.
Patting myself on the back a little with this one.... but I'm genuinely curious, when did you think they'd do it? No wrong answers, we're all friends here!
I grew up around Philadelphia in the States supporting the local teams (Phillies, Eagles, Sixers, Flyers). Too many examples during those years (some legendary) of a local team “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” left deep scars.
This past Friday, an Arsenal supporting client of mine that knows my allegiances stated “You’re going to get a point from one of your last 5 games, right?” I told him I couldn’t comment while I got into my fetal position.
At 3-1 on Sunday I dared to dream.
You left it quite late then!
That I did. It’s the hope that kills you, Beez.
It was particularly pleasing how the Reds went about their business on Sunday. They did it with style
I think you were the first out of the traps from the brain-trust to call it, I was doubtful, but should have trusted you!
I started to believe after the Forest away game.
We were very unfortunate not to win, but I knew it was done after Virgil's winner against West Ham.
I was a bag of nerves in the days before the Spurs game, with Chelsea on good form, but both yourself and Paul showed why they would fall away.
They drew just before our Spurs game, and never threatened again.
Arsenal were a pest, them beating City reignited things, but thankfully we were relentless!
Haha, I won't always be right by any means!
That's a good point re Chelsea which I should've included had I thought of it. If they had won at Goodison that day they'd have gone top ahead of Liverpool's game at Tottenham.
That seems ridiculous now when you look at the table but that was the state of play. As the prediction from matchweek 17 in the article shows, they weren't likely to maintain their form.
It will be interesting to monitor the predicted points from the start of next season, to see how things shape up as the season goes along.
With Chelsea dropping points, it seemed to take away some of the pressure, especially as we'd just had the Fulham draw.
Knowing what we know now, we probably would have smashed Spurs anyway, but it was another bonkers game which never seemed in doubt, but also kept me a little nervous. It could have been 5-0, 10-5 as well as 6-3.
MD26. On Saturday Arsenal lost against West Ham. Pretty much knew our win would break them and we delivered against City on their turf. Arsenal followed this up with two draws.
Yeah I think that's probably the general consensus. It definitely felt done, particularly as Liverpool won one of their toughest fixtures of the season.
I generally never do predictions, mostly because I always think we can win, barring really dark periods like the Hodgson "era." But I started to feel really confident after the holiday run. When we entered January at 14-3-1 and I was just this side of furious that we hadn't gotten all three points at Anfield against ManU, I knew then that we were probably the favorites. By that time, we were 6-0 in the CL, too, and it was hard to deny that we were one of the best sides in Europe, to say nothing of England. Not sure I can say that I "knew" we would win it then, but I know that I felt it would be a decent shock if we didn't.
For me it was probably the 2nd half performance at Newcastle, even though we didn’t win.
We had been outplayed in the first half for the first time really all season. Lesser teams would have wilted and taken a defeat, but we were simply brilliant in the 2nd half and should have won the game.
Newcastle played really well on the day at a raucous St James and still couldn’t beat us. That convinced me that we weren’t going to lose many games all season long, and I just couldn’t see how other teams were going to get the sort of points total that we looked destined for.
Of course there was so long to go at that point that injuries could have derailed us, but I had faith in Slots injury prevention record at Feyenoord as that was a big reason we recruited him and his staff.
That's a good shout. The next game, Fulham at home, really helped convince me. They were around fourth in the expected points table at that point and Liverpool largely outplayed them with 10 men. I loved that Slot didn't bring on a defender when Robertson was red carded and sorted it out in a different way.
Yeah that one was in my mind as well. Slot really showed his bravery in that game.
To still try things tactically to go for the win with 10 men for 70 mins was impressive, it showed his commitment to winning games, rather than not losing them, as well as his faith in his squad.