Over the last week, Arne Slot’s staff have been trying to look for clues for likely situations that no one in the Premier League has yet been able to see coming. That is the moment when Anthony Elanga, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Morgan Gibbs-White get into position to suddenly break. It has confounded the majority of the Premier League this season, given Nottingham Forest have beaten 12 of the competition’s 19 clubs, including Manchester United and Liverpool themselves. There’s been a glorious throwback in the value of the counterattack, one that has come out of nowhere.
You can say the same about a Forest-Liverpool fixture being billed as a title clash for the first time in 46 years. Talk of that 1979 showdown sits alongside the echoes of Leicester City 2015-16, whether Nuno Espirito Santo’s side can cause lightning to strike twice, and how exactly they’re doing it.
