City, United and Arsenal are more or less fixed (any order at the moment). Fourth spot is totally open but Spurs and Southampton are my picks. West Ham, Everton and Liverpool will all be fighting for European places though.
I agree - as you say, we've played a lot of the big away games. If we can still be in touching distance of top 4 come end of Janaury, I believe the owners will back Klopp in the transfer window. Combined with the players becoming more in tune with the tactics, it makes for an exciting second half of the season. Two wins on the bounce and players are feeling more confident, which then transcends to the fans.
They've done what West Ham and Southampton did at the bridge, and what we did to them at Goodison. Beating Chelsea of late isn't the yardstick that it was, they're unbelievably ****e at present. Of course the kopites will be hailing it as a milestone win and the start of a new World order, but in reality it's 3 points and a good performance at a side completely bereft of confidence.
The Leicester situation is rather interesting, hate to use the term 'fairly easy run of opening games' and the are playing well with the two form players in the league but so far they've only played 2 of the traditional top 6, losing to Arsenal and drawing with Spurs both of which were at home. And in there next two fixtures they'll have played all 5 of the bottom clubs. Should be a hard December for them.
Its a safe bet City, Arsenal and United will be in the fop 4, but then who? I was very pleased with the result yesterday which gives belief - but there will be games where we drop points despite playing well because of a lack of a striker. We need a striker in January imo. Spurs look like they're going to have a good season and surely Chelsea will come back into in? 4-7 is difficult to predict.
It is going to be hard for Chelsea to make it .I think fourth spot is two horse race Tottenham or Liverpool?. Jurgen Klopp called those who are talking about the title CRAZY. I agree with him !.
what a surprise tobes and diego likes this comment. you fecking bitter bellends go and cry on your own boards
the mancs and bitters of course lol. they have to try and twist anything positive about our club, they always do after we win.
Exactly. I've literally not seen one person associated with Liverpool mention the title.. I saw the BBC reporter ask Klopp about it and he rightly told me to stop being so ****ing silly.
'Are you crazy?' - Klopp reacts to Liverpool title talk Goal Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp Jurgen Klopp has dismissed talk of a Liverpool title challenge as "crazy" after his side beat Chelsea 3-1 at Stamford Bridge. Two goals from Philippe Coutinho and a late strike from substitute Christian Benteke saw the visitors battle back from Ramires' early opener to secure a first Premier League victory for their new manager. Klopp was thrilled with the way his side responded but was quick to quash the idea of his side challenging for Chelsea's crown this season. When asked if he felt a title challenge was in the offing, he said: "Oh, please! Are you crazy? I've been here three weeks!" "The second half was an open game. We got our goals at two perfect moments. There was a bit of luck, but it was deserved," he continued, referring to Coutinho's deflected second goal. "We didn't have the best start. We needed a few minutes. It's important we stuck through and played football. We were in the game. We deserved to be level at halftime. "Conceding an early goal is better. You have to make mistakes so you can learn from them. We had to fight and we did that. It was very important for us." On Coutinho, he added: "Phil is a great player, he's unbelievably skilled and a great guy. We are not at our limit. We could do better, of course." Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho was left incensed on the touchline when Lucas Leiva escaped a second yellow card for a trip on Ramires but Klopp insists the referee was correct. "No, of course not," he said when asked if he felt a red card was deserved. "I saw much more intensive situations when he can give yellow cards but he gives yellow cards for nothing. We cannot win at Chelsea without luck."
I still wouldn't write off Chelski yet for getting into the top 4. People quoting stats like no one's been that far behind or had such a poor start and made it, but most those teams having such a poor start or being so far behind have been in that position because they're **** teams. Chelski are still, on paper, laced with top talent and quality players. Mourinho will likely get the siege mentality going soon and they'll climb up the table slowly. Three wins when other teams at the top falter with draws and they'll be 4 points shy. A better stat is that no defending champions have ever been so far behind and no team as good as the chavs have been so far behind. It's too early to write them off unfortunately. City and Arsenal are shoe-ins (could this even be Arsenal's year?). United, despite their points tally and I've said this before, are playing awfully. I wouldn't cement their place up there yet. Bold prediction: Arsenal, City top two. Spuds and someone else third and fourth. Between United, us and Chelsea.
Mourinho will be lucky to get Europa this season But their new manager has a decent chance of top 4, especially if he spends the £100m+ he'll have in January well
Chelsea have the best squad in the league but a loser mentality at the moment. They're fully capable of coming back. Just depends on how long they're in the slump for. I'd bet against them at this point. I doubt United will be top 4 come May. Not with LVG in charge anyway.
