Afterward that Equalizer Everton and Wobble at home Wolves, Liverpool knew that the victory against the Aston Villa would take over his advantage regarding Arsenal in double digits. They came close. The point was the least that they deserved from the fun extraction 2-2.
That was how Arne slot stared after that, two points fell because four goals shared for the second Wednesday in a row. But this differed from Everton, different even on the weekend victory over wolves. “I liked the performance of much, much more,” the slot said.
“Performance Wise wasn't a memory at all. What we can't do too, and what we do too often is that we don't get what we deserve. We must not make a habit of it because it happened a little too much. But we are clearly eight points.”
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Prominent from the conflict of the Premier League between Aston Villa and Liverpool
It was an important detail to be taken from Wednesday evening. More than Mohamed Salah scoring and helping once so that it is now on top of both charts. More and from Darwin Nuneza, the deadlock to miss what the slot called the open goal.
Liverpool just keep picking up points.
There is no embarrassment, not all three in the Villa park not only because of the congested solidification list. Manchester City lost here last season and pulled the year before that, but he still continued to raise the title. Liverpool delivered here as champions.
Arsenal missed the chance to move with six to play when he beat the fairy last April and it was on his house. The villa are a different proposal in front of their own supporters, and now undefeated in the last 13 premiere games here.
Are Liverpool better?
But the Liverpool themselves are unbeaten anywhere in the Prime League of September. It is their guest record that separates them from the others. They are commended by the only undefeated record on the competition. Every other team lost at least twice.
The atmosphere Anfield is among the best in English football, but this comes with a warning when many of these figures stood on the KOPs did not experience the title close up in their lives. Running five years ago played in empty soil.
“You can't compare the circumstances,” said the slot for the previous title Liverpool triumph earlier in the week. “Those who won the league in Koroni, without our fans in the stadium, they were in advance 25 points. So you can hardly talk about pressure.”
Cheerleaders for Liverpool pain to perceive this in a different way, but it brings with that expectation. Andy Robertson felt forced to talk to the team to calm down in victory over wolves, later cooling on the cop when he heard their bays again.
“If you don't have a mentality to win heavy games then you'll never achieve.” That was the main ur ed from that game. But if Anfield should be on the edge between now and May, it may be far from home to win the title.
That guest record will be tested on Sunday. By the opposition, of course. But also with this demanding storage list.
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Can fatigue poison Liverpool?
Liverpool is in the middle of five games in two weeks, and fatigue factor means five points from the first three represents a reputable trip. A sequence culminates in the domestic game against Newcastle before the weekend that can't come soon.
Only Tottenham, Bournemouth and Newcastle made more intensity from Liverpool this season, and all three suffered their injury problems. The slot knows that this is the balancing of the act. There are consequences to push his players too much.
Salah started every match of the Premier League to date this season, a situation that becomes more challenging because games still come. It is not accidental that the slot saw that it lost its laterly as many times in six games, Salah did not start as in 35.
The Egyptian manages his exit well, but for those in a motor room that is more difficult. Can Ryan Gravench really continue like this? Alexis Mac Allister looked spent long before he was suburged in the villa. Connor Bradley came, then went injured.
The management of the installation deserved praise the right from the first game of the season when it took Jarell Quansah in half against Ipswich, but the feeling is now, with a schedule in its most efficient boss under surveillance.
At the end of last year, when he was the only team in 16. that their victory was arsenal – and even it was a useful extraction at Emirates Stadium – progress was serene and rotation on Dutchman's terms. Now everything comes to risk, change too much or too little.
Selection of slots in the center of attention
In Villa, the slot made the temptation turning in front of that game against Manchester City on Sunday, making just one change in the weekend team. The reminder of Curtis Jones did a logical sense given that the suspension gave him a forced vacation.
But the decision to bring the midfielder for Luis Diaz was the subtle change of formation, as well as staff, Liverpool with variation 4-2-2-2 with Jones playing from left pocket and Energy Dominik Szoboszlai joining attack also.
Putting questions in the slot after the match, he explained, “The reason why we did that Lucho (Diaz) played three games in seven days. I was playing him in Plymouth because I knew I had Cody (Gakpo), so I could transfer them if is required.
“But then Cody hurt in Everton because he had a big knock and suddenly left only one Trenger. So that's why we could have done it. And I think it could have been working. The amount of chances we've created and how we are played. “
He added: “It has not been wise to play Lucho for 90 minutes. In the same way I had to take out Jota and Trent (Aleksandar-Arnold), they both return to them. You have to take care of them, especially the time you play when you play So many games. “
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Sky Sports' Peter Smith asks if the fatigue is snail among the stars Liverpool
Some supporters are critical to the club because they are not more active in the transmission window, because it would not notify signatures to feel that this group is over it. Others are encouraged by the influence of those on the margin.
Jota equated his first touch in the Nottingham forest. Nunez, despite his great lady here, won points in Brentford. It was Quansah who caused a challenge for the game against wolves. From Bradley to Wataru Endo, there are those ready to contribute.
But ready for a bigger role? That is a greater question. There are still totems Salah and Virgil Van Dijk, and immovable items in a Liverpool team whose removal from the equation would change a complexion, not only in future season, but in here.
We will be ahead of us, but if these two, I can stay in particular in shape, Failure Liverpool will not be faithful. They showed so much in a villa. It was for the first time in five years that they first achieved and still be behind half. But they answered.
This team only achieves goals. That is the difference in the title race. They are undefeated in 22 premier leagues that have achieved in all 22 of them. Far from home they have achieved more nine goals than any other team, they achieved 50 percent more than Arsenal.
As their fans went north, thoughts are already converted on Sunday, the other is the new emery that he had the final word. “Liverpool is the best team in the Prime League and the best team in the Champions League.” The victory in the city would all but confirmed.
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