Roy Hodgson believes that Liverpool will slip up in the title race
Liverpool strengthened their hold at the top of the table with a 2-0 victory over Wolves away from home on Friday night. Jurgen Klopp’s men continued their best ever start to a top-flight season, stretching their unbeaten run in the Premier League to 18 games.
Manchester City’s 3-2 loss against Crystal Palace sent the Reds four points clear at the top of the standings. However, Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson believes that the Merseysiders, who are looking for their first league title in 28 years, are likely to slip up in the title race and there are plenty of surprises still left to unfold.
“I don’t think Pep Guardiola will be too concerned about a four-point gap with 20 games left to play,” said Hodgson, who was Liverpool manager in 2010-11.
“One of those is going to be against Liverpool, but even without that game, the chances are that Liverpool will go somewhere and something like this will happen. Someone will beat them against the odds, there is a long way to go yet and there will be an upset somewhere along the line.
“I am sure the only disappointment for Pep will be having so much of the ball and being able to buzz around our final third as much as they were able to do without creating as many chances as they would have liked.
“But I would like to think he will give Crystal Palace a bit of credit for that. His side were able to ask a lot of questions but we managed to come up with the answers.”
