Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has analysed the element that can give his former side an advantage over rivals Manchester City and Arsenal in the Premier League title race.
After 27 video games performed of the 2023/24 season, there are simply two factors isolating the top three sides, with Liverpool sitting in first vicinity on sixty three points.
The Reds secured three factors on Saturday with a last-gasp Darwin Nunez winner away at Nottingham Forest, whilst City and Arsenal each kept up the strain later in the gameweek with wins over Manchester United and Sheffield United respectively.
The trio seem to be set to run every other shut as we approach the business end of the marketing campaign in what promises to be the most competitive title race in years.
Outlining the strengths of each side on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football Carragher highlighted that whilst Arsenal can also have the strongest defence and City the nice general squad, Liverpool’s use of substitutes to win video games late on, as they did at Forest, could prove crucial.
Carragher, standing in front of a photo displaying the affect of the Reds’ substitutes said: “Since the five-sub rule got here in, no-one has utilised it higher than Jurgen Klopp…
“Arsenal are the nice defensively. We’ll touch Manchester City next. They’re probable the fine team and acquired the first-class individuals but this is the place Liverpool could win the league: from the bench.
“Jurgen Klopp continually makes use of five subs…
“It suggests the electricity from the bench, surely in phrases of scoring goals.
“38% of Liverpool’s desires [have come] after seventy six minutes and would you believe Liverpool have certainly scored a higher percentage of dreams after the 76th minute than they have in the first half of games this season.
“Again that shows they’ve received gamers prepared to come off the bench. They’ve acquired quality, and credit score to Jurgen Klopp.”
Fellow pundit and Premier League superb Thierry Henry then added: “It’s the amount of factors additionally that they acquired from those goals… they’re in reality winning. That’s a lot of points, 15.
“He [Klopp] does have confidence what he has on his bench.
“If you appear at some teams in the Premier League you have some players that will not go away the bench. Sometimes at City with Pep he does not even make any exchange in some games.”
As highlighted via Sky, Liverpool have scored an mind-blowing 24 goals after the 76th minute so some distance this season (15 for each Arsenal and City), incomes them an greater 15 points (11 for City and nine for Arsenal), while there wide variety of goals or assists by way of subs is 22 (compared to 18 for Arsenal and just 10 for City).
