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If anything last weekend in the Premier League taught us, it is that you can never predict with absolute certainty what will happen. There will be understandable frustration and worry after what Liverpool had to endure at Goodison Park, but what’s done is done and you can only move on.
Kopites has been used to seeing this Liverpool team win week after week for the past few years. What we are witnessing now is a more accurate representation of what it is like to follow a soccer team, and it is what we all have to get used to.
If you were to predict how many points the eventual league winner will score this season, then you are far braver than most. Liverpool have accumulated 99 and 97 points in the last two seasons, the chances of that happening again are pretty slim. That is not due to a lack of quality in this team, but rather that the hard blow of reality will soon reap its ugly head.
It seems remarkable that despite only a handful of matches being played this season, some are not only writing off Liverpool for the title, but also tipping clubs to lift the trophy that were otherwise not considered. Namely Tottenham Hotspur.
When the Spurs were 3-0 up at home to West Ham, many said they might be in the running to win the league. Those calls fell silent after the Hammers again scored three goals in the closing minutes, as José Mourinho’s team essentially threw two points. Tottenham may well be in the running for the title this season, but the point is that this season has seen almost every team concede goals and receive a disappointing result, and it is too early to make any predictions.
The unprecedented circumstances we face have made this season unlike any we’ve seen before. No fan inside the stadiums is a more decisive factor with each week of passing play.
Jürgen Klopp said after last season that he couldn’t imagine a team winning the league in England with less than 90 points from now on. That has been the case for the past four seasons, but before it was not a common achievement.
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In the last 25 campaigns since the Premier League switched to a 38-game season, only nine of them have resulted in the title winner accumulating 90 points or more, and four of them have come in the last four seasons. It may well be that we are in the era where a team has to achieve greatness to win the prestigious trophy, and even then it may not be enough.
However, this season seems to be different. Teams at the top and bottom of the league, including Liverpool, are going to lose points more often than they would have before. If not having fans in the stadium is the main reason, who knows, but there certainly seems to be a knock-on effect.
There are still 33 league games left this season, and Klopp will send his team determined to win each and every one of them as he has before. There will be bumps along the way and, unlike in previous years, Liverpool could afford to lose more points in the league and still finish champions, as is the nature of the season we are having.
What I read on Liverpool.com
Joel has written a really solid piece on Jordan Henderson and how he looked his best in the Merseyside derby. A must read, for sure.
And Dan has also put together a good piece on Liverpool’s upcoming roster of matches, and how they are about to enter a defining period of the season.
What i’m hearing
I’ve mentioned it before in a previous piece, but if you haven’t already, check out Jamie Webster’s ‘We Get By’ album. Excellent from start to finish, and you can listen to it right here.
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