Tough to imagine Liverpool hanging on to the top spot in the League, given the decimation of the squad. It would be tough to hold off Arsenal and City if they were fully healthy. Instead the team is playing a bunch of academy kids off the bench.
I think their injury list right now is better than the majority of EPL squads. Fill it out with a couple of replacement level defenders and I’d like their odds to qualify for Europe:
Jota Nunez Salah Gravenberch Endo Szobo ??? ??? Matip TAA Alison
That’s a pretty damn good squad.
Plus you’ve got Jones as a sub, who was a rotation caliber player. And Bajcetic and Doak as well, although they’d probably not play in a healthy side. That’s not even counting Thiago since him not being injured is the exception.
On the plus side, looks like Nunez and Szobo are almost back, and Salah hopefully will be soon as well. But the others are all out for quite a while still.
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2-0 Arsenal in 27th. This team is buzzing offensively in the Prem. Lethal stuff lately.
Also I was very wrong on Havertz. I didn’t think he was as bad as early season output but I didn’t expect this kind of production. Top player this year.