Liverpool will play at least 10 games between now and the end of the season that are set to determine whether this campaign will be one to remember or forget for Arne Slot’s team.That challenging run across three different competitions – the Reds could be faced with as many as 15 matches were they to progress to the finals of the FA Cup and Champions League – will also go a long way in deciding Slot’s future at Anfield.
However, contrary to some recent reports in the German press, the current mood music coming out of the club is the Liverpool head coach’s job is safe, although failure to qualify for the Champions League would surely test the patience of the club’s American owners The Fenway Sports Group.
Despite several slip-ups in the last 16, though, England remain on course to secure an extra spot in Europe’s premier club competition next season, allowing fifth-placed Liverpool slightly more leeway to achieve what would have been seen as the bare minimum requirement at the start of the campaign.
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FREE TO WATCH: Highlights from Brighton’s match against Liverpool in the Premier League
But with sixth-in-the-table Chelsea just one point behind and a whole host of other teams lurking within striking distance with just seven Premier League games left this season – 11th-placed Sunderland are only six points behind the Reds for example – there is now very little wriggle room for the champions.
In fact, Opta rate their chances of competing in next season’s Champions League at just 22.82 per cent.
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Liverpool head coach Arne Slot blames injury problems, a fixture pile-up and the club’s transfer policy for why they were defeated by Brighton
On that basis then, Liverpool’s final seven league games will surely be the main focus for Slot as he looks to navigate the finale to the season with a squad that despite a record-breaking £446m investment in it last summer, has still been shown to be worryingly light at times this campaign.
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2026-04-02 08:00:00
