How Liverpool Could Win Title Before Facing Tottenham at Anfield

There’s a certain comedy to inevitability. You know the punchline’s coming, but it still manages to land with a thud. Liverpool, dragging their boots through another routine victory, are now brushing shoulders with the Premier League title like it’s an old acquaintance they haven’t quite hugged yet. A 1-0 win at Leicester wasn’t poetry, but it was purpose — and in April, purpose trumps prose.

Numbers, narratives and near-certainties

Liverpool now sit 13 points clear of Arsenal with five games left. It’s not so much a race as a slow crawl to a finish line no one else has been allowed near. The maths is simple, at least by football’s messy standards: if Arsenal lose to Crystal Palace on Wednesday, they are capped at 78 points — one fewer than Liverpool already have.

That means this thing — this season-long, muscle-sapping, narrative-drenched journey — could end not with a roar at Anfield, but with a whimper in North London.

That’s how Liverpool could win the title. Not in the blaze of floodlights or under the Kop’s roar, but somewhere between Oliver Glasner’s tactical rigidity and Mikel Arteta’s high-wire idealism. A Crystal Palace smash-and-grab is now the only thing separating Arne Slot’s side from early coronation.

Slot’s measured stride to the summit

“We’re all looking forward to that game,” Slot said of Sunday’s clash with Tottenham. But he knows — as we all do — that the real action could come 96 hours earlier.

On the Leicester performance, the Dutchman was honest, almost amused:

“Since I’ve been here I don’t think we played a game where we’ve had so many big chances and didn’t score one of them.”
“In the end we needed a set piece to score, which wasn’t a big chance, but a great finish from Trent.”

Liverpool have rarely sparkled of late, but they’ve learned to endure. And that, perhaps more than anything, is how you win a title.