Liverpool’s hopes of winning the Premier League title look all-but over despite there being just 11 games gone in the season.
The Reds were beaten 3-0 by Manchester City in their latest outing in a result that leaves them eighth in the table with six wins and five defeats from their 11 games. They are four points behind Manchester City in second and eight points adrift of Arsenal.
On Liverpool’s five defeats, Arne Slot said: “Yes, it feels too many and the last thing I should speak about now is the title race. We should first focus on getting results – result after result after result – before we can even think about that and the reality is that we are eighth now.
“One team is quite far ahead, although City are four points away from Arsenal. The rest is quite close and I said last season many times, even when we were leading in the beginning, the best way to judge the league table is of course after 38 [games] but the next best thing is to judge it after 19 games because then you’ve all faced the same opponents.
“And our first focus should be on getting results and the last thing we should focus on is the title race, which is something we could do last season but also not the previous two seasons before. But we need to improve and that’s obvious.”
Following the latest Premier League results, the data experts at Opta have crunched the numbers to predict every team’s final points and position based on the average of over 10,000 simulations. Let’s dive in...
Average predicted points - 27.23
1. 20th: Wolves
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Average predicted points - 36.46
2. 19th: Burnley
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Average predicted points - 36.81
3. 18th: Nottingham Forest
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Average predicted points - 37.47
4. 17th: West Ham United
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