Liverpool have truly been topped Premier League champs with their 5-1 win versus Tottenham at Anfield on Sunday.
Arne Slot’s facet required a minimal of 1 point out defend the title and go well with Manchester United’s doc of 20 group crowns, and strikes from Luis Díaz, Alexis Mac Allister, Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah, together with a Destiny Udogie very personal goal, secured the cut price.
“This is the most beautiful club in the world. We deserve this. We are going to enjoy the next couple of weeks and take it in,” captain Virgil van Dijk knowledgeable Sky Sports after the online game.
“I was desperate to win it for [the fans] and all the fans around the world, and for us as well.”
Salah’s goal was the 185th of his Premier League job, making him the group’s top-scoring worldwide gamer.
With Arsenal’s 2-2 draw versus Crystal Palace on Wednesday, they can’t mathematically seize the group leaders, regardless of having 4 video video games nonetheless to play.
Liverpool flaunt a 15-point profit over Arsenal, having truly shed simply two occasions in 34 group video video games this era. It stands for a shocking launching interval for Slot, that left Feyenoord to alter Jürgen Klopp as Liverpool supervisor final summertime.
The Dutchman paid homeage to Klopp after the final whistle, singing his identify to the group equally because the German had truly supplied for him after his final online game on the membership yr again.
“It was clear we couldn’t lose this game. Everyone on the bus said there’s no way we’re going to lose this game,” Slot knowledgeable Sky Sports.
“They all the time discover a strategy to win. Incredibly proud, not solely of the gamers however the individuals standing right here, sport administrators, my workers members, we must always give them an enormous spherical of applause.
“Let’s neglect it’s the 2nd in 35 years, it’s the 2nd in 5 years.”
When Liverpool final received the title all through the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, avid gamers and workforce congregated at Formby Hall Hotel on Merseyside to take pleasure in Manchester City’s 2-1 loss to Chelsea, which safeguarded the membership’s preliminary group title as a result of 1990.
