The Premier League Panel: Georgia is certain that Liverpool will take the title

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Our expert panel convenes to ask whether anyone can beat Liverpool to the Premier League title and what the chasing pack have to do to stand a chance.

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00:00Yeah, no, and I know what you mean, but yeah, personally, I blame him raw-dogging that flight.

00:04He hasn't been the same since. Georgia, I mean, if we sort of speak about Arsenal and Liverpool as

00:09title rivals, I know there's a fair degree of confidence on your end that they aren't really

00:12this time around, but did we learn anything from the 2-2 draw that the two teams played out early

00:17this season? Was there anything you saw there that just makes you look at the way the two teams play,

00:21the way they face off against each other? They won't play again until May, so that could be a

00:25bit of a title descender in the last couple of weeks of the season. A club decider, sorry,

00:28in the last couple of weeks of the season, but did you learn anything from that game?

00:32Was there any sort of alarm bells ringing, or is that just another sort of, you know,

00:35one point, not such a bad result after all kind of situation?

00:39I mean, as I say, I'm confident, but I do expect points to be dropped, and we have had some luck

00:47where when we have dropped points, so have other teams, and I think it's only been one time where

00:51Arsenal have capitalised on us dropping points. So if they had one where we've lost or drawn,

00:58this table could be very, very different. So it needs to be mentioned that, you know,

01:03there has been some luck there as well. I know Everton played quite a big hand in

01:08drawing against, I think it was Chelsea and Arsenal back to back, which was like, thank you.

01:14But yeah, like it could be a totally different story. And yeah, I think, I do feel for Arsenal,

01:23because, you know, as we've just said, this could have been their year with City imploding

01:30completely. And now they're looking at Liverpool and thinking, can we catch a break, please?

01:36So there's a lot of fight in them, for sure. They're a huge club,

01:39and I don't think we're safe from them by any means, but I do still back Liverpool,

01:46and I am confident we can get the job done. But I don't think it's going to be a comfortable

01:50end to the season. I do think it's going to be maybe three points or less in between the top two,

01:58because great if it's a landslide, but there's not really any fun in that. So why not?

02:03Last weekend, why not? So yeah, no, I wouldn't rule them out. But I do stand by my statement

02:09that I think we can get it done. It just won't be, it won't be cruise control. It'll be more of a,

02:14you know, a staggered end to the season, in my opinion, anyway.

02:18Well, it wouldn't be much fun if it wasn't close for us neutrals, but I would have thought if it

02:21was my team cruising their way to the top of the league, I'd find it quite entertaining,

02:25to be perfectly honest. I'd be perfectly happy being a Celtic fan or something like that.

02:29Very quickly, before we go to the break, Jason, one question I'd like to ask about Liverpool is

02:33strength in depth. I mean, we've talked about Arsenal, if Saka goes down injured or something

02:37like that, but what he has done, they've got a problem. What happens if Salah goes down injured?

02:41What happens if, you know, Virgil van Dijk goes down injured?

02:45I mean, Arnie Slott will be hoping he never has to find out. You know, I think that

02:49it would be a huge blow, obviously. You know, we're talking about two of the best players,

02:52not just of this Premier League season, but arguably of the Premier League era. You know,

02:56obviously it'd be a huge blow, but I do think that Liverpool, you know, they do find a way.

03:02We've seen it in previous seasons, haven't we, where they've had injury crises, if you like,

03:07and they have been able to plug those gaps. Obviously, out of the two, I think losing

03:10Salah would be the bigger blow, and I don't think there's any question about that at the moment.

03:14Just because of what he offers in an attacking sense, that being said, Liverpool do have other

03:19quality attacking players, you know what I mean? So, obviously, Slott won't want to find out what

03:23happens if either of those players go down, and let's work on the assumption that they're not

03:27going to. But, yeah, I still think that they've got enough of an advantage and enough quality

03:32whereby they should still be able to see it out of the tackling.

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