Rio Ferdinand, football pundit on BT Sports, and Stephen Vernock of BBC Sport agree that if we only measure their form in the Champions League phase, Liverpool are the undisputed favourites to win this season’s title. But there is still a tough knockout round waiting for them in the next five months.
The Reds just defeated Girona 1-0 yesterday, scoring a full 18 points, guaranteeing to be one of the 8 teams seeded in the last 16 rounds, and also winning 6 consecutive matches of the first season again since 2021-22 (winning 7 matches in a row).
Just looking at the moment, head coach Arne Slot’s team is in good shape and ready to hunt for the 7th European Cup, but the deeper the round, the more fierce the opponents become. Therefore, all the parade cars or fans who will book tickets for the final match in Munich, Germany, should be calm first.
“In terms of performance at the moment, Liverpool must be consider the favorites, but because the trophy was not award,” said the former 2008 Champions League winner.
“They must maintain perfect performance throughout.”
“Head coach Arne Slot could rest players like Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah for the remaining two games of the league phase.”
“Actually, you can set up the main team to fight first and then take them out to rest, but keeping the main players as fresh as possible is more important.”
While Warnock also sees the current ‘Reds’ as the tightest in both the English Premier League and the Champions League.
“What we can say is that no matter ยูฟ่าเบท who Liverpool face at the moment. They are all tough opponents, whether in the Premier League or the Champions League.”
Before the 2024-25 Champions League kicked off, Opta, the statistics agency, estimated that Liverpool had only a 4.6% chance of winning the championship in September , but this has now increased to 20.7% and sees a high chance of reaching the semi-finals of 51.3%.