{"id":8826,"date":"2025-03-01T02:19:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T02:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/?p=8826"},"modified":"2025-03-01T02:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T02:19:55","slug":"alex-keble-looks-at-the-state-of-play-in-the-2024-25-premier-league-title-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momentsunfolded.com\/archives\/8826","title":{"rendered":"Alex Keble looks at the state of play in the 2024\/25 Premier League title race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Liverpool ease past Newcastle to go 13 points clear at the top\n

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Arsenal drop more points in title race with draw at Forest\n\n
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Football writer\u00a0Alex Keble\u00a0assesses the 2024\/25 title race after a pivotal set of midweek fixtures where Liverpool beat Newcastle United and Arsenal drew with Nottingham Forest.\n\"PL2425-KEBLE-TITLE-RACE\"\n

Arsenal\u00a0lost more ground in the title race after following up a shock\u00a01-0 home defeat\u00a0to\u00a0West Ham United\u00a0on Saturday with a\u00a00-0 draw at Nottingham Forest\u00a0on Wednesday.\n

Liverpool\u00a0capitalised on that slip-up again, extending their lead to 13 points with a\u00a02-0 win home win Newcastle United, albeit having played one match more than Arsenal.\n

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Title race\n\n
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Position\nClub\nPlayed\nGD\nPoints\n\n\n
1\nLiverpool\n28\n+40\n67\n\n
2\nArsenal\n27\n+28\n54\n\n
3\nNott’m Forest\n27\n+11\n48\n\n
4\nMan City\n27\n+16\n47\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Only once before has a team trailed by 13 points and gone on to win the title – and encouragingly for Arsenal, they were the team who did it, in 1997\/98.\n

However, the Gunners still had 19 matches to play in that season, whereas this time around they only have 11 matches remaining.\n

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What is the form guide?\n

Liverpool have taken 11 points from their last five league matches, including an impressive seven points from a tricky trio of back-to-back matches against\u00a0Aston Villa, Man City and Newcastle.\n

Liverpool’s last seven results\n
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Opponent\nResult\nCompetition\n\n\n
Spurs\n4-0 (W)\nEFLC\n\n
Plymouth Argyle\n1-0 (L)\nFAC\n\n
Everton\n2-2 (D)\nPL\n\n
Wolves\n2-1 (W)\nPL\n\n
Aston Villa\n2-2 (D)\nPL\n\n
Man City\n2-0 (W)\nPL\n\n
Newcastle\n2-0 (W)\nPL\n\n\n\n\n

Arsenal’s draw at Forest, combined with their loss to West Ham, means they have only won one of their last four matches in all competitions.\n

Arsenal’s last seven results\n
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Opponent\nResult\nCompetition\n\n\n
Wolves\n1-0 (W)\nPL\n\n
Girona\n2-1 (W)\nUCL\n\n
Man City\n5-1 (W)\nPL\n\n
Newcastle\n2-0 (L)\nEFLC\n\n
Leicester\n2-0 (W)\nPL\n\n
West Ham\n1-0 (L)\nPL\n\n
Nottingham Forest\n0-0 (D)\nPL\n\n\n\n\n
What are Liverpool\u2019s remaining fixtures?\n

Things are now set to get decidedly easier for Liverpool.\n

For a start, there is space to breathe. Liverpool play only one Premier League fixture in March, against bottom-placed Southampton.\n

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Five of their six Premier League matches through March and April are against teams in the bottom half of the table, the only exception being Fulham away on 5 April.\n

They will still have to contend with a Champions League last-16 two-legged tie with Paris Saint-Germain and an EFL Cup final in March, but there is no doubt there is more room in the calendar this spring.\n

May, however, contains matches against\u00a0Chelsea, Arsenal and\u00a0Brighton & Hove Albion\u00a0before ending – more tamely – with\u00a0Crystal Palace\u00a0at Anfield.\n

Liverpool’s remaining PL fixtures\n
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Date\nOpp.\nDate\nOpp.\n\n\n
8 Mar\nSouthampton (H)\n26 Apr\nSpurs (H)\n\n
2 Apr\nEverton (H)\n3 May\nChelsea (A)\n\n
5 Apr\nFulham (A)\n10 May\nArsenal (H)\n\n
12 Apr\nWest Ham (H)\n18 May\nBrighton (A)\n\n
19 Apr\nLeicester (A)\n25 May\nCrystal Palace (H)\n\n\n\n\n
What are Arsenal\u2019s remaining fixtures?\n

Arsenal’s fixtures look trickier.\n

They now travel to\u00a0Manchester United and then have back-to-back London derbies against Chelsea and Fulham, followed by a trip to a rejuvenated Everton.\n

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The good news is Arsenal only have two Premier League matches in March, which is just as well given their injury list, although of course that will depend upon how far they go in the Champions League. They will face PSV Eindhoven in the last 16.\n

The difficulty only really relents towards the end of April, and there is then a trip to Anfield to come in May.\n

Arsenal’s remaining PL fixtures\n
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Date\nOpp.\nDate\nOpp.\n\n\n
9 Mar\nMan Utd (A)\n26 Apr\nCrystal Palace (H)\n\n
16 Mar\nChelsea (H)\n3 May\nBournemouth (H)\n\n
1 Apr\nFulham (H)\n10 May\nLiverpool (A)\n\n
5 Apr\nEverton (A)\n18 May\nNewcastle (H)\n\n
12 Apr\nBrentford (H)\n25 May\nSouthampton (A)\n\n
19 Apr\nIpswich (A)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Who has the better fixtures?\n

The Fixture Difficulty Rating (FDR) is a tool used in\u00a0Fantasy Premier League\u00a0which ranks fixtures from one (easy) to five (hard).\n

It puts Arsenal and Liverpool almost neck and neck.\n

Arsenal\u2019s total score is 33, or 3.0 per match, while Liverpool\u2019s is slightly easier, at 28, or 2.8 per game, as they only have 10 matches left.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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