Ahead of his side’s EPL fixture against Southampton on Sunday, Liverpool’s manager Arne Slot has played down on his team title hopes insisting they will approach one game at a time.
The Reds are currently five points ahead of second-placed Manchester City with eleven games played and Slot has insisted there is still a long way to go to decide who wins the league.
“I don’t talk about favourites. It is boring but I just talk about the next game, which is a challenge in itself. In the Premier League the margins are very small. That is true all season.
I have followed the league and there was a moment when City were eight points behind Arsenal, so there is no use in getting carried away at all at this moment in time”, he said.
Liverpool have made their best ever start to a season under Slot who replaced Jurgen Klopp in the summer. They are also top of the new 36-team UEFA Champions League with four wins from four games.
“These teams like City, Arsenal and Chelsea, even [Manchester] United and all the others, are able to put together a run of games like we did. So we are not getting carried away at all and looking at it in terms of favourites.
The players know what they have to do to win a game, and it’s a lot. If they could give 50% less and still win, maybe we would think we have 50% extra in the tank and not need to give our maximum for results. But we know it has been a close call in many games”, he continued.
Liverpool travel to bottom-placed Southampton on Sunday looking to continue their impressive start to the season and they are clear favorites to come out on top in the fixture.
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