Gary Neville names Liverpool’s biggest rival for Premier League title
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Gary Neville says Liverpool are now the ‘clear favourites’ to win the Premier League and views Arsenal as their biggest competition. Liverpool will sit four points clear at the top of the Premier League table on Christmas Day after Arne Slot’s side thumped Tottenham 6-3 on Sunday.
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The Reds’ title rivals Arsenal thrashed Crystal Palace 5-1 earlier in the weekend but second-placed Chelsea slipped up, drawing 0-0 away at Everton. Neville insists Chelsea, widely tipped to struggle before the season started, are enjoying an impressive season but says he expects Arsenal to emerge as Liverpool’s biggest rival for the title.
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Arsenal have come agonisingly close to winning the Premier League under Mikel Arteta – twice being pipped by Manchester City – and Neville has backed them to challenge again. Defending champions Man City, of course, are all but out of contention as a shocking run of form has left them seventh, 12 points adrift of Liverpool.
‘Liverpool are clearly the best team in the Premier League at this moment in time,’ Neville said on his Sky Sports podcast after the remarkable clash at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. ‘They’re the clear favourites for the title. Man City’s drop-off has been spectacular, I’m not sure anyone really knows how it’s gone so badly wrong.
