Liverpool may yet join Arsenal in next season’s Champions League, particularly if Newcastle continue playing like that and Erik ten Hag keeps making errors.
Arsenal
If those final minds hadn’t been changed about weak, soft, bulliable Arsenal, that really ought to do it. That was as impressive an isolated win as any Premier League club has recorded this season.
Liverpool
There have been worse weekends in the history of Liverpool Football Club, who are essentially one Alisson goal away from reaching next season’s Champions League final at this point. No fans were in attendance to witness the 10-game unbeaten run which snatched qualification from 8th and eight points back from fourth place on March 14 in 2020/21; plenty have been on hand to push them through a sequence of six consecutive wins, four of which have come at home, to render a gap of eight points behind 4th in 8th on April 3 almost entirely obsolete.
Not since Birmingham in December 2009 has a Premier League team secured five straight victories by a single goal. For only the fourth time in Jurgen Klopp’s reign, Liverpool have won back-to-back league games 1-0. This is not a leisurely stride to fourth place. They are doing things the hard way and grinding each possible point out of this, avenging previous setbacks against Leeds, Nottingham Forest, Fulham and now Brentford in the process.
But that pipedream has suddenly become a reality. There remains work to do but with both Newcastle and Man Utd dropping points and only Brighton a factor to consider behind them, Liverpool’s salvage mission is on.
Harry Kane and Mo Salah
For the first time since October, both Kane and Salah scored in a round of Premier League fixtures while Haaland did not. Their respective exploits for Spurs and Liverpool have been understandably overshadowed but they are still brilliant players who so often elevate their teams from ordinary to excellent, who so regularly turn one point into three.
Noni Madueke
Todd Boehly threw so much at the wall that some of it had to stick. Madueke has played 382 Premier League minutes across four starts since joining in January, yet already only two Chelsea players have completed more dribbles than his 22. The winger brings something different to any other member of that bloated squad, which is justification alone for continuing to pick him.
While a great deal of work does need to be done on his decision making in the final third, Madueke is at least trying things and…
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