Liverpool kept their minimal Premier League title chances alive — just about — on Sunday with a 4-2 win over Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield which leaves the Londoners seven points adrift of Aston Villa in the final UEFA Champions League qualification position. Jurgen Klopp’s men worked up a comfortable 4-0 lead through Mohamed Salah, Andy Robertson, Cody Gakpo and Harvey Elliott goals before Ange Postecoglou’s side rallied with late Richarlison and Son Heung-min strikes made it a decidedly nervy final 10 minutes.
Despite the Reds’ worrying late wobble, they remain five points behind Arsenal at the EPL summit with just six points left to play for although Manchester City can extinguish those hopes by winning their game in hand which happens to be against Spurs. Tottenham, though, now need to win their three remaining games and hope that Villa pick up no points from their final two games with their next outing a visit from none other than Liverpool at Villa Park in the penultimate game of the campaign.
This after Villa went down 1-0 away at Brighton and Hove Albion earlier on Sunday and lost yet another player to injury in Morgan Rogers with Unai Emery’s walking wounded needing a miracle to overturn a 4-2 first-leg deficit against Olympiacos in the UEFA Europa Conference League semifinals. Despite another entertaining and goal-filled round of games, Liverpool and Spurs’ positions remain unchanged and both essentially have to win their remaining fixtures to stand any chance — no matter how remote — of finishing higher than their current position.
Even six points for Klopp’s Reds will almost certainly not even be enough to move up to second while nine points is a massive ask of Postecoglou’s Tottenham from their three…
