What impact has Man City win had for Liverpool?

Liverpool have formally opened up an 11-point hole to Manchester Metropolis (fifth) within the Premier League desk with their 2-0 win on Sunday.

Targets got here courtesy of Mo Salah (penalty) and Cody Gakpo (open-play) as Arne Slot’s males secured their eleventh English top-flight win of the 2024/25 season.

The coaching wheels are very a lot off within the Dutchman’s opening marketing campaign in English soccer.

The one query remaining is how a lot the previous Feyenoord boss can obtain this time period.

Liverpool’s title odds have modified after Man Metropolis win

There’s nonetheless loads of life left on this Premier League title battle so far as we’re involved right here at Empire of the Kop.

While it’s definitely thrilling to see Opta’s supercomputer up our probabilities of profitable a twentieth top-flight crown this time period to 85.1%, nobody at Anfield needs to be taking something without any consideration.

The Sky Blues could have fallen out of the highest 4 spots (quickly, in our view), however there’s nonetheless the not-so-small matter of Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal aspect to cope with.

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After coming near profitable the league for the primary time because the 2003/04 season, we’ve little doubt they’ll be hungrier than ever to reap the benefits of this Metropolis stoop.

What do Liverpool’s subsequent 5 league video games appear like?

It appears somewhat ridiculous on our half to recommend Liverpool have a tricky run developing given we’ve simply seen Slot’s aspect defeat Actual Madrid and the champions of England in fast succession.

That stated, it could be silly to miss the problem posed by the likes of Newcastle United at St. James’ Park and Ange Postecoglou’s wildly unpredictable Tottenham outfit.

→ 4th December: Newcastle (A)

→ seventh December: Everton (A)

→ 14th December: Fulham (H)

→ twenty second December: Tottenham (A)

→ twenty sixth December: Leicester Metropolis (H)

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