Arne Slot was discussing how difficult the Premier League is. He often does, the man whose results have suggested he has found it easy. Slot forever underlines that it isn’t, not even when Liverpool only need two victories to take the title and their next two opponents are Leicester and Tottenham. “We've shown in the last 32 games that there have only been two or three wins that were quite comfortable, but the rest of them were very, very, very hard work,” he said after Liverpool made hard work of beating West Ham.
It offers an indication into the type of champions they will be: deserving, after just two defeats in 32 games, as frontrunners who have rarely looked in danger of being caught. And yet damned with faint praise: Arsenal have dropped too many points to chase them and, mixed as Liverpool’s performances have been in recent weeks, the question will remain unanswered if they would have cracked under pressure. No one has applied enough to tell.
