Manchester City have lost four consecutive Premier League matches for the first time since August 112 all out in 28.2 overs (Hamza Khan 32, Nazifullah Amiri 33; Ranjithkumar Newton 2/28, Viran Chamuditha 2/14, Praveen Maneesha 3/16, Vihas Thewmika 2/10) clear at the top, their big vsgest margin as leaders in the competition since the final day of the 2019-20 campaign
Gary Neville says Liverpool are now “strong favourites” to win this season’s Premier League title after a 2-0 win in Sunday’s showdown with champions Manchester City, who he believes must now undergo a rebuild under Pep Guardiola.
Arne Slot’s side are nine points clear at the top and 11 ahead of champions City, who have now lost four successive league games in the same campaign for the first time since August 2008.
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Liverpool were straight out of the blocks to dominate and Cody Gakpo turned in Mohamed Salah’s cross for a 12th-minute lead. City were fortunate not to concede more before Salah – who had missed his last spot-kick against Real Madrid in midweek – converted a 78th-minute penalty.
Arsenal and Chelsea trail Liverpool by nine points, while City have now gone seven games without a win in all competitions and have lost six of those.
It’s an unbelievable performance from Liverpool. The people who have appointed [Slot], the people who’ve created the stability, the players, most of all, in the sense of getting behind him. It’s really incredible what we’re watching.
None of us expected it. I think Liverpool fans expected it. They may have expected them to finish in the top four but it’s absolutely brilliant what Arne Slot’s done and it gets really serious. It’s gone from being a honeymoon period, a great start to hang on a minute.
There’s a real expectation but they’ll be very, very strong favourites. Nine points clear of Arsenal, 11 points clear of Manchester City and there’s still four or five months to go. The title race doesn’t start until April. We’re just in early December.
These are unusual things for me to be able to say because I would never ordinarily say it.
I’m not saying Liverpool are going to win the league. I still think there’s a long way to go. But there is no doubt that now there’ll be an expectation.
I wouldn’t ever say if they don’t win it from this position they’ll have bottled it. I don’t believe that’ll be the case. I think they will have a difficult patch at some point in the season.