After setbacks in the Champions League and Carabao Cup, Liverpool fear losing the Premier League title to Arsenal. Their coach, Arne Slot, is worried about losing out in the title race, ultimately being forgotten, and feeling frustrated for years.
In an excerpt from his book, Slot shared his concerns about falling short in the Premier League title race.
“I know how it works,” said the Dutchman. “If you don’t win trophies as a manager or a player, it can haunt you for decades.
“There are different ways to be remembered. Look at the Dutch team in the 1974 World Cup. Everyone saw that tournament as one where the Netherlands triumphed. But they didn’t come home with the cup.
“Of course, I want to win as many games as possible, but I also want to stay in people’s memory. That, in my opinion, is a trophy in itself.”
The pressure to win the league is undoubtedly mounting for Liverpool.
I know of Gooners who have already conceded the Premier League title race to Liverpool. The Reds are 12 points ahead of Arsenal with nine games to go. It’s claimed that by Matchday 29, no team with such a lead has ever lost the title race. But Liverpool could yet become the first…
The Reds would need to drop 13 points (suffer four defeats and a draw) to throw away the title race. As good as Liverpool have been this season, could they stumble?
Before the break, we saw PSG knock them out of the Champions League on penalties. Then came another disappointment, as the Reds faltered in the Carabao Cup final, soundly beaten by Newcastle.
These two setbacks have exposed vulnerabilities in the Reds’ game. In fact, it’s been said that if opponents neutralise Mohamed Salah, Liverpool become toothless.
Looking ahead at Liverpool’s fixtures, teams like Everton, Fulham, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Brighton may look to replicate PSG and Newcastle’s blueprint to claim all three points.
This would certainly aid Arsenal’s push for league glory…
But for Arsenal to clinch the title, they’ll need to help themselves too. A perfect run from now until the end of the season is a must.
Can Arsenal sustain such a run? They’ve no choice but to try. With Bukayo Saka returning to the fold soon, we’ll hopefully be stronger.
If Liverpool are worried, then we clearly still have a chance in the title race.
Daniel O
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I like your optimism, I really find it hard to believe it can happen unfortunately.
Even if liverpool do slip up, theres no guarantee we would capitalise on it.
We lost the league at home to West Ham, end of.
Can we please stop talking about the title!
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Hmmmn! It’ll take a miracle for this to happen!
We should be thinking of those behind us now.
Sadly I don’t think that Slot has anything to fear about losing the title this season.
Anyone who believes that Liverpool will throw the title away, will be disappointed I fear.
They may drop a point here or there but I can see us doing just the same, which has happened on 4 occasions already this season.
It looks like second is our only hope for a third season running.🤦♂️🙄
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there is no sign at all of “Liverpool fear title race collapse”, the opposite as all they have left to play for, focus on just nine games
Liverpool recent wobbles have come in Cup competitions – like our bad week getting knocked out of both, but in the middle of a 15 game unbeaten run in the PL – i.e. Cup may not translate to League
with 12 point gap, and superior goal difference effectively makes that 13 points, so would require dropping 50% of the 27 points left – simply is not going to happen
realistically, and record books tell us, the PL title race has been over since xmas