Liverpool could have solely managed a draw on Wednesday, however Slot’s facet have now gone 22 consecutive Premier League video games with out defeat, successful 15 of these.
It’s the first time they’ve been in a position to put collectively such a streak since their 44-match unbeaten run between January 2019 and February 2020, after they went on to win a primary Premier League title.
Regardless of the draw, knowledge analysts Opta nonetheless predict Liverpool to complete high on 87 factors, six away from Arsenal, utilizing their projection algorithm.
Their probability of successful the title has dropped barely, nevertheless, from 87.65% to 84.79%, whereas Arsenal’s has risen from 12.35% to fifteen.13%.
No different crew is given a greater than 1% probability by Opta of being champions.
It has proved a testing run for the league leaders, who conceded a last-gasp equaliser towards Everton in an emotional Merseyside derby draw at Goodison Park final Wednesday, scraped a hard-fought 2-1 win over Wolves at Anfield on Sunday after which needed to come from behind for the purpose at Villa.
But Slot denied his crew are struggling a dip in kind.
They go to Manchester Metropolis realizing Arsenal will shut the hole to 5 factors in the event that they beat West Ham on the Emirates on Saturday.
“I do not really feel like that in any respect,” added Slot. “When you go away at Villa it’s all the time a tough fixture. Efficiency-wise, not a dip in any respect as we speak in my view.
“What we should not do, and a bit too typically now, we do not get what we deserve. When you put all the probabilities in a row from us and them it is clear which crew ought to have gained this recreation.
“We should not make a behavior out of that because it’s occurred a bit an excessive amount of now however we’re eight factors clear with Arsenal having a recreation in hand.”
