Nothing can stop Liverpool now.

The Reds are eight points clear at the top of the Premier League but their squad is going to be pushed to the limit between now and year's end
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, apparently.

But for Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool, it’s also the most worrying. Bushtucker trials are nothing compared with the Reds’ winter schedule.

The Premier League leaders resume their campaign this weekend with a testing trip to Crystal Palace. Familiar faces lie in wait – Roy Hodgson, Christian Benteke, Mamadou Sakho, Martin Kelly; each of them eager to bloody the nose of their former club.

Having scaled one mountain in beating Manchester City last time out, the Reds now face a whole host of them. With 14 games across the next six weeks, this is the period which could come to define their campaign.


"Nothing can stop me now," Mr Burns once said in The Simpsons, "except microscopic germs."

Burns was talking, naturally, about world domination, alluding to the way in which unforeseen dangers can hinder one's plans. Klopp could arguably relate.

Nothing can stop the Reds now, except injuries and fatigue, perhaps. Rather than microscopic germs, the Liverpool manager’s concerns revolve more around calf strains and hamstring tweaks, ankle rolls and jarred knees.

At Palace, for example, they could be without Mohamed Salah, who continues to feel the effects of an ankle injury sustained against Leicester seven weeks ago. The Egyptian has been unable to train fully since the win over City, and missed his country’s games with Kenya and Comoros during the international break.





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