"We also know it is different when you are four points behind a team that is 18th or 19th in the league, because they usually don't pick up as many points as the number three, four or five picks up. So to close the gap to numbers three, four and five, that means you have to win a lot and that is not what we have done a lot this season,"
"Slot's side are sixth in the Premier League heading into MD26, five points behind Manchester United in fourth and four further adrift of fifth-placed Chelsea in the table. Liverpool are assigned a 21.7% chance of finishing in the top four, with Aston Villa (70.2%), United (35.1%) and Chelsea (48.2%) all better fancied in the Opta supercomputers data-led simulations of the 2025-26 season."
Liverpool travel to Sunderland after a dramatic defeat to Manchester City, where Erling Haaland's late penalty completed a league double and worsened Liverpool's position. Arne Slot demands near-perfection because the team sits sixth entering MD26 and trails Manchester United by five points and is a further four points behind fifth-placed Chelsea. Opta simulations give Liverpool a 21.7% chance of a top-four finish compared with higher probabilities for Aston Villa, United and Chelsea. Liverpool have conceded four 90th-minute winners this season, the joint-most in a Premier League campaign, and lost at Anfield after scoring first for the first time since April 2017.
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