Liverpool can still make the most of this surreal season
Liverpool can build on their start to the season.
By any accounting or measure this is beyond doubt the most unique and novel year in footballing history.
We’ve had football without fans in the stands since mid March and Liverpool are champions of the league after conquering the world the year before.
We are six match days into the new campaign and the Reds, for all the plethora of team adversity affecting this squad since mid August when COVID first infected the players, are sitting on 13 points and are second only by virtue of goal difference to Everton.
Perennial rivals Manchester United and City are languishing in 15th and 13th respectively, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Tottenham are sliding in at 9th, 10th, and 11th respectively. The top table is heavy with sides the likes of Aston Villa, in 3rd and Everton.
Leicester, Leeds and Southampton are 4-6; with Crystal Palace and Wolves making up the rest of the top eight.
The point is in review of this table after six weeks is the relative parity in the league thus far into the campaign. The usually good and decent teams are malingering midtable and midtable and bottom feeder clubs are shining at top.
This is something as surely unique to the Premier League this campaign as surreal as this entire year has unfolded. Who could have foreseen such a year. I mean Manchester City in 13th with 8 points of 18 on offer? Five points separate 13th and first place so no one is yet running away from the pack. Virtually all 13 sides are still in the hunt.
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This is shaping up to be a wild and rip roaring ride into winter, particularly if no one goes on a huge winning streak of five or six ties in a row.
It should be noted strongly here that even after all the rough challenges thrown at Liverpool and these Reds they are still quite in the thick if it and are in a fine position all things considered.
Thiago has yet to play a complete match…Allison is returned earlier than expected from injury, Fabinho is turning into a descent center back, the defensive shape is surviving the test thus far, and Firmino is on the tally sheet again. All good things in the moment as the gaffer likes to say.
The Reds have a tricky and challenging Champions League tie with Midtjylland at Anfield on the morrow, before returning to league play on the weekend when they will host David Moyes and Hammers to Anfield.
This finishes out the ties for October, and should the Reds come out with victories in both CL and the West Ham match then they will be looking smart heading into a complicated and tricky match list which sees them facing Manchester City in the 8th.
That’s looking far enough ahead at this point, as events unfold and the shuffle of fixtures takes its toll we could see some very interesting football and jockeying in the table. And after all the other surreal events and absurdities we have all seen and lived with this past nine months or so; who could expect any less for the remainder?
Just as Jurgen Klopp says, and this is true; we take these things as they come in the moment, the good with the bad and press on. Each match presents its own kind of challenges. And we need to concentrate on each one in the moment.
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A wild and wacky season we have in store or so it would appear; just as it has been all year long.