Well done boys, good process. Having earlier in the afternoon seen opportunity knock to extend their lead at the Premier League summit, Liverpool barged through the door in exhilarating fashion here in North London. And, in doing so, Arne Slot’s side sent out a compelling statement they are a side that will take some shifting from the top of the table after a remarkable, ridiculous afternoon at Tottenham Hotspur.
Slot, forever striving for impossible perfection, was swift to be critical of the last 25 minutes when Liverpool, their collective feet easing off the gas, gave the home side false hope of a comeback that was never, ever going to happen. Liverpool player ratings as Mohamed Salah and Dominik Szoboszlai brilliant with six superb at Spurs Mohamed Salah shows true dressing room feelings with comments made immediately after Tottenham chaos But this was instead a story about what went before as the Reds not so much cleverly negotiated as emphatically hurdled a potential banana skin against unpredictable opposition to take advantage of a favour from, of all clubs, Everton holding second-placed Chelsea. Of course, it was in this part of the capital last year that Liverpool suffered a VAR-infected defeat that, in retrospect, signposted why they would ultimately fall short in their title challenge.
There was no chance of that here. And if the Reds were ahead of schedule last term, this increasingly appears as though this can be their time. Both Arsenal and Chelsea, the pair .