liverpool will win the league, invincible | OneFootball

It’s dark to have to write an article like this as a Manchester United fan at the best of times. Factor it in with your team being 14th in the league table after four games, nearly a week after a derby defeat to Manchester City, and it gets significantly worse. Liverpool has started the season like a true house on fire. They haven’t even kicked into gear yet, and I think that is what will scare opposition fans the most.

An early-season argument against Liverpool has been the fact that they continue to score late goals. Virgil Van Dijk’s 92nd-minute effort against Atletico Madrid was the fifth late winner of the season, but the fact that Liverpool keeps scoring late is more of a positive than anything else. There hasn’t really been a game when it looked like Arne Slot’s side was going to be beaten. They may have conceded twice last night, and conceding despite going ahead seems to be an early teething issue this season, but they were truly breathtaking at times in yesterday’s game.

Liverpool, truly inevitable

There just feels to be an air of inevitability about Liverpool this season. Crystal Palace have given them their only defeat of the campaign, and even then, that came from the penalty spot, not within the 90 minutes. The persistence and never-say-die attitude, accompanied by the sheer fitness in the side, which Slot eluded to last night, means Liverpool are continuing to grind teams down minute after minute in matches this season, and that’s a scary recipe for the rest of the league.

Sir Alex Ferguson’s sides used to have this aura about them. The late goals scored in Fergie time were never a coincidence; in fact, United trained for them. If you are fit enough to go until the end and mentally tough enough to believe until that whistle blows, then the latter part of the game is a goldmine for making things happen. Tired legs make mistakes, and tired minds aren’t as focused. If you can head into that period of the game somewhat fresh, and with true belief inside your mind and body that you can get a winning goal, magic can happen. And Liverpool is making magic happen so far this year.

It’s a fact that the side has not even gelled yet. Florian Wirtz is still finding his feet, and Alexander Isak has yet to start in the Premier League as he gets his fitness back to a reasonable level. The rest of the league strengthened, but Liverpool became twice as strong as last season, and boasts by far the best squad in the league. It’s a bold prediction, but I really feel like they will go invincible this season. The reason is that, no matter how many goals the opposition scores in a game, I always feel like Liverpool will score more.

Negatives not a worry

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 17: Florian Wirtz of Liverpool reacts during the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 League Phase MD1 match between Liverpool FC and Atletico de Madrid at Anfield on September 17, 2025 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)

Defensively, they are suspect, that’s undeniable. They are not a perfect side by any means, and they will face issues in the full-back area from time to time. Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez are fabulous players, but both are very aggressive, particularly Kerkez in his 1v1 duels, which can and has backfired at times for Slot and his side this season. Kerkez being substituted in the first half against Burnley was a clear indicator of this. They can be vulnerable defensively, and they will concede goals all season unless they rectify that issue.

Alas, even with that issue, the positives of both players clearly outweigh the negatives, particularly in attacking areas. They are also helped by the fact that all of Liverpool’s midfield pairings are top class, with only Arsenal perhaps able to clearly stand up and suggest they have a better midfield trio at this moment in time. Dominick Szobozlai has been a revelation this season. Alexis Mac Allister keeps getting better, and Ryan Gravenberch’s defensive midfield renaissance has been nothing short of a stroke of genius from Slot.

Furthermore, Liverpool’s attacking talent both in the eleven and on the bench trump anyone else in the division, and the fact that they could bring Hugo Ekitike off the bench last night for Isak was a ridiculous power play that showcases by far who the clear favourites for this league title are.

stronger than the chasing pack

Arsenal have talent up front, but not enough. The mentality isn’t there yet either, and that was evident the other week against Liverpool at Anfield, where the side from Merseyside were indeed there for the taking, but Arsenal failed to capitalise. That game is another reason why I hold the belief Liverpool can and will go invincible. In games like that, when the opposition are vulnerable and there to be got at, Liverpool aim for the jugular. They win them games comfortably. They drag themselves over the lines in games where their weaknesses are on show, and they steamroll teams with no mercy when they show the same weaknesses themselves.

They are a freight train eagerly steamrolling their way towards a record 21st Premier League title, and as a Manchester United fan, all we can do is watch and pray that something somewhere goes wrong to stop them. Liverpool has too much depth in too many areas to fail to win this league title. They have too much confidence after last season to falter at the hurdles that will present themselves, and the travelling pack is just not strong enough to stop them.

Arsenal are good, but they’re not great, yet. Manchester City are better than last season, but still lack leaders as they transition from a treble-winning side into the next era at the club. They are too vulnerable on transition to win a Premier League, and are in between two styles, with Pep Guardiola’s possession game of the past and Pep Lijnders’ rock and roll football of the expected new look Manchester City future merging together like the Venom Symbiote and Peter Parker in Spiderman 3.

They are too good to stop. Too hot to handle, and I genuinely cannot see them losing one game between now and next May.