Sometimes, it’s quite simple.You can only win if you are better than the rivals.And to prove the quality, you ought to beat them.If you fail… well, we guess it means you don’t deserve to be champion.That’s a long story short of Liverpool’s current Premier League season, which has seen them record a single win in eight games against the teams from the big six.A 2-0 home victory vs Aston Villa in September. And that’s it.Five draws – the last one on Sunday at Old Trafford – and two defeats against the title contenders are just too much for a side that hopes to clinch the most significant football league title in the world.Liverpool against the ‘big six’ in the Premier League this season:◉ 1 win◉ 2 losses◉ 6 drawsJust the 9 points from 9 games 👀 pic.twitter.com/rF1Idl3kwW— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) April 8, 2024 Moreover, it’s also quite blatant for Jurgen Klopp and his team what prevented them from getting better results (although they’re still pretty much in the race for the trophy despite all the setbacks).A notorious xG, which tells us a story of the expected goals, proves Liverpool’s attackers’ lack of finishing qualities.Van Dijk criticises ‘wasteful’ Liverpool: “It’s our fault again”In the draws and defeats mentioned above, Liverpool have scored seven goals in seven games. They have taken 125 shots in those matches, most of them shared between their front three. The EPL average for shots per goal is around one in nine. Against their top-six peers, Liverpool average a goal every 18 shots.”(Being top) matters after 38 matchday days, a lot,” said the Liverpool boss after the draw at Old Trafford. “People and our supporters as well will tell us now we need to better our goal difference and go for that, but that would be the dumbest thing we could do. That doesn’t happen on purpose, you don’t go into a game wanting to score eight goals and it happens.”We are who we are and we are how we are and that’s why we are in the race. I’m absolutely fine with that.##NAJAVA_MECA_8010563##”I knew it would be super tricky until the end. We were until yesterday whichever time we were top, now it’s Arsenal and I don’t know when then it maybe somebody else. We want to be there after the last matchday. It’s obviously better to be there the whole time and get distance between you and the others.”We are fine with our situation. I wish we had more points but I’m absolutely fine and over the moon actually that these boys brought us into that situation. The same boys who missed today a few chances are the boys who brought us 71 points,” said Klopp.
