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'I just feel' - Kyle Walker makes honest Liverpool admission before Man City match
It's fair to say even Liverpool supporters could not have expected the start their side have made under Arne Slot. Sitting top of the Premier League, top of the Champions League and into the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup, the transition from the Jurgen Klopp era has been seamless.
And the job Slot is doing has drawn admiring glances from the captain of Sunday's visitors to Anfield, Manchester City.
City will arrive at Anfield on the back of the worst run of Pep Guardiola's reign. While they ended a five-match losing sequence in all competitions on Tuesday night, the 3-3 Champions League draw at home to Slot's former club Feyenoord also felt like a loss given they threw away a three-goal lead.
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In contrast, Liverpool are flying, with the stunning 2-0 Champions League win at home to Real Madrid the following evening meaning they have now won 17 of the 19 matches Slot has taken charge of.
And if they make it 18 out of 20 this weekend, it would leave the Reds 11 point clear of City in the Premier League title race. Even for Guardiola, that would feel like too big a gap to close.
And, ahead of the match, captain Kyle Walker has given his verdict on Liverpool and the job their new boss is doing.
“I just feel that Liverpool are flying at the minute, and they’ve got a new lease of life under the new manager," said the England international on You’ll Never Beat Kyle Walker.
“They’re playing some great football, and it’s going to be one of them games that you look forward to. I think every year we always look forward to playing against Liverpool, but especially this year, we’ve got a point to prove against them.
“If you win against Liverpool at any point in the season. It’s always a statement win because they’re always going to be right up there.
“But I think especially this year, where they’ve set off like a house on fire, they’re playing some great football under the new manager.
“He’s brought a little bit of the spark back. I don’t think Klopp ever lost the spark, but I think playing for a new manager (helps)”
Walker is not the first City player to pay tribute to the Reds this week. Rodri, the newly crowned Ballon d'Or winner who will miss Sunday's match through long-term injury, told The Rest Is Football: "In the Premier League? My first year was the worst because we faced that Liverpool, that was unbelievable. Unbelievable.
"I think I would say, I think it would be the best team I will to face in my career, that Liverpool. But in that prime, Salah, I haven’t seen any player that way.
“With that, he was like a knife. Not that skilful, like many, like, let’s say Neymar or Vini (Vinicius Junior) or these kind of players, but like a knife, scoring, assisting.”
