Gary Neville has aimed a thinly-veiled jab at Alexander Isak in his prediction for Liverpool\u2019s clash with Crystal Palace on Saturday while Roy Keane explained why he doesn\u2019t believe Arne Slot\u2019s side will win the title.<\/p>\n
Liverpool have won all five of their Premier League games at the start of the season and already sit five points clear at the top of the the table having cruised to the title in Slot\u2019s first season in charge.<\/p>\n
The Reds have relied on a number of late goals to ensure that 100 per cent record and there\u2019s a feeling that they are yet to truly hit their stride in quite the harbinger of doom for their title rivals.<\/p>\n
Two of their title rivals in Arsenal and Manchester City drew 1-1 last weekend to drop points in the race<\/a><\/strong>, while Chelsea lost 2-1 to Manchester United.<\/p>\n Hugo Ekitike scored their latest last-gasp winner in the League Cup to triumph over Southampton to take his tally to five for the season, but the summer signing was shown a second yellow card for taking his shirt off in celebration<\/a><\/strong> and is now ruled out of the clash with Palace.<\/p>\n Isak scored his first Liverpool goal in that win over Southampton before being replaced by Ekitike and will now surely lead the line for the Reds on Saturday.<\/p>\n And Neville suggested that\u2019s bad news for Liverpool, claiming Ekitike\u2019s absence will be costly for Liverpool, while fellow Stick to Football podcast Jill Scott backed Isak to truly arrive as a Reds player in the Premier League.<\/p>\n Gary Neville insisted: \u201cLiverpool don\u2019t have Hugo Ekitike because he took his shirt off, so I\u2019m going for a draw, and I think 1-1.\u201d<\/p>\n Jill Scott said: \u201cLiverpool will win and it will be a sliding door moment for Alexander Isak.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365<\/strong> Keane backed Arsenal to win the Premier League title at the start of the season and is sticking to that prediction despite Liverpool\u2019s fine start, claiming centre-back injuries could be costly for Slot after Giovanni Leoni was struck down by an ACL tear on debut against the Saints.<\/p>\n Keane said: \u201cI\u2019d like to go with Liverpool now, but I still think if Liverpool get one or two injured centre halves there could still be a dip for Liverpool, no doubt about it.\u201d<\/p>\n Jamie Carragher is sticking with Liverpool as his title winners as he believes Arsenal only have \u201chalf a chance\u201d thanks to their reliance on set pieces.<\/p>\n \u201cIt almost feels like it\u2019s down to set pieces if they can win the league,\u201d Carragher said. \u201cThey\u2019ve got the best defence, they\u2019ll end up with the most clean sheets.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd it almost feels like if their set pieces work, they\u2019ll have half a chance and if they don\u2019t they won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gary Neville has aimed a thinly-veiled jab at Alexander Isak in his prediction for Liverpool\u2019s clash with Crystal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[9261,748,393,163,1676,4884,179,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-452276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-alexander-isak","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-gary-neville","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-liverpool","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115269430494581449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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