How Liverpool became Premier League champions: Mohamed Salah’s form, Manchester City’s slide, more

Months after building a commander lead on top of the Premier League table, Liverpool was officially crowned champions on Sunday After a 5-1 win against Tottenham Hotspur, he completed the impressive performance in their first season under manager Arne Slot.

In the last months of Liverpool’s title -winning run, the team went into Cruise Control and survived the few bumps on the way thanks to the inviolable lead they had built in the early parts of the season. It may have resulted in an anticlimactic end of the Premier League title race, although their increase in the top was not necessarily easy to predict at the start of the campaign.

It was unclear how quickly Liverpool would switch from the Jurgen Klopp era, a period of almost nine years that brought renewed success to the club with one Premier League title, one UEFA Champions League trophy and two other trips to the final of Europe’s top club competition. Slot wasted no time in Anfield at all and lost only one match in all games until the beginning of January. The Dutch manager, who only coached in the Netherlands before his move to England was, turned the Klopp attack team into one of one that had more restraint but achieved the same results when they were at their best. Their high-flying start ensured that they had enough insurance to survive some bumps in the way later in the season, and that they would not end the season, even if they were eliminated from the FA Cup, UEFA Champions League and the ELL Cup final lost in a few weeks in the winter.

While the parties in Liverpool are starting, here is a retrospective of the determining trends that fill in the context of the title -winning run of the Reds and made sure that the first season of Slot in Anfield would be a successful one.

Mohamed Salah’s Lights-out form

There was a surprise element for the dominant title -winning run of Liverpool because it really felt a year of transition in the beginning. With very little action on the transfer market last summer, Slot would work with a team built with Klopp in mind, which may postpone the process for the new manager to leave his mark in the team. There was also a layer of uncertainty that went hand in hand with that feeling of transition-Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk, the veterans who had the task of being at the forefront of Liverpool, were in the last year of their contract and there was a realistic chance that they would be on the road quickly.

The thing about the transition, however, is that the line between the end of an era and the start of a new is difficult to predict, and the bets of the Reds that Salah had in him at least one stronger year was a good one. The most memorable aspect of Liverpool’s title-winning run will be that it was the showcase for perhaps the biggest six months of Salah’s impressive career, a period in which the 32-year-old found the back of the net with impressive ease. His count, as it looks, is 33 goals and 33 assists in all competitions this season, the majority of which came from August to February. His shape eventually went hand in hand with that of Liverpool-Hun Spring-Skid coincided with his dry enchantment, although the exploits in the early season did not make it relevant to their title run.

The run was enough to ensure that Salah would ink a new two -year -old deal in Liverpool and deposit itself in the conversation for the Ballon d’Or, adding a new layer of excellence to an already set inheritance. Whether Salah can retain this form for another two years is a question for another time, but even if his role decreases in Anfield, one thing is certain – as far as the latter dance, this can simply be as good if it comes from an individual position.

The downward turn of Manchester City

There is another reason why the Liverpool title run was unlikely – this trophy was again that of Manchester City to lose. At the start of the season, Pep Guardiola’s side stood on a four-year-old Premier League-winning series, and although there were questions about whether they could keep their competitive advantage for a fifth year in a row, few anticipated this campaign.

Their season was hindered for the first time by Rodri’s ACL injury in September, but a series of poor results last fall revealed that the problems were greater than the absence of one player. Guardiola has presented and admitted them from the title race for the new year, There was “no chance” that they could achieve the performance With city 14 points behind Liverpool at the end of December. He did not have the wrong-City in the last weeks of the Premier League season with competing for a berth from the Champions League, which is still not a lock for them in an Uber-competitive season partially inspired by their own bad form.

The dip of City also coincided with a strange year across the board for the most of the best sides of the Premier League. Arsenal will probably earn a third consecutive second place and was fairly consistent the entire season, but Liverpool never seriously challenged the title, while Chelsea embodied a year of transition in their first under manager Enzo Maresca. Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur are now doomed to half of half after unusually poor campaigns in the Premier League this season. In a sense, the Reds were the only team of the task and will therefore run away as deserved champions.

Arne Slot’s strong first impression

If uncertainty was the theme of the Liverpool season, Slot was the personification of it. There were no questions that the ex-Feyenoor boss had earned a job as it had earned, the Eredivisie and KNVB Cup and demonstrated him as one of Europe’s next young managers. However, it was reasonable to take into account an adjustment period, and felt the quiet summer of Liverpool as a signal that the team would not be transformed to immediately fit the tactical vision of lock.

However, the new manager went on the ground and quickly showed his management style despite working with a team that still reminded of Klopp’s approach. Slot implemented and brought a pragmatic approach in a short order without sacrificing the results, although his side had on average fewer shots than Klopp did the year before, the attacking output was comparable during the first six months of the campaign. Even when it became more complicated in the rear half of the season, Slot was able to clearly show that he is part of the top of Europe and is perhaps the first of various young managers who made the leap successfully.

There will be new challenges for Slot As soon as next season -the bumps of this campaign are in the way of sufficient to prove that Liverpool could use some updates that will speed up the transition from the Klopp era to the lock era. What the latter ultimately looks like is a big question, but it makes the Reds a fascinating team to follow for years to come.