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Liverpool have not been close enough to the leading pack in the Premier League this season.
Manchester City and Arsenal are the two sides fighting it out for the title, while Liverpool are looking at a third place finish from quite a distance behind.
That is the reality of Arne Slot’s second campaign at Liverpool, even if recent results have at least given the season a more positive feel. But there is one area where the Reds are ahead of Arsenal this season. It is just hard to know whether that is a compliment or a criticism.
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Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images Liverpool’s strange winning runs sum up Arne Slot’s season
Liverpool’s latest run has quietly put them in unusual company.
This is now the fourth different occasion in 2025/26 that Slot’s side have put together at least three Premier League wins in succession. No team has managed more separate runs of that kind this season, with Manchester City also on four and Arsenal behind them on three.
That is a strange statistic for a side sitting so far away from the title race. It points to a team still capable of building momentum, but one that can’t find consistency.
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Their season has constantly swung from one extreme to the other. They opened like title contenders, winning five league games in a row, before collapsing into a dreadful spell that brought six defeats in seven.
It was recovery, slump, recovery, slump for the rest of the season.
That’s the frustration with Slot’s team. The problem is not that they cannot win games. The problem is that they have not been able to keep winning. Liverpool look set for Champions League qualification, but that’s as much down to poor competition from the teams below as it is to our own form.
That was the bare minimum, and a third-place finish would paint the Dutchman in a much more favourable light.
For that, Liverpool have to do something they have not managed since the start of the season. They need to make it four Premier League wins in a row when they head to Old Trafford on Sunday.
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