After dropping eight points since the turn of the year, whispers were growing of a possible wobble for Liverpool.

However, with the emphatic victory over Man City and Arsenal losing on the same weekend, the murmurs have decisively been put to bed.

Even the most sceptical of Liverpool fans would find it hard not to admit that Liverpool has one hand on the Premier League trophy.

It’s a matter of when not if Liverpool will now deservedly win the title.

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For the majority of the season, it’s felt as though this team was the only one equipped to use its attack in varying ways to make a beeline for the title.

Arsenal’s tactics have shifted more towards pragmatism this season, Liverpool on the other hand have raced into an 11-point lead because they’ve attacked the title.

One team aims to close games out the other to kill them off.

It helps that under Arne Slot, Liverpool has become a multi-faceted machine.

There is not just one way for them to win a game or even defend and this is exactly how they beat Man City.

Whilst Pep Guardiola’s side are undergoing a rebuild, at home they’re still dangerous opposition with players like Omar Marmoush in form.

It isn’t taken note of enough but Liverpool haven’t lost the pressing that made them so dangerous under Jurgen Klopp, instead of being robust high pressers, they’re now ‘smart’ pressers.

It’s indicative of Slot’s time at Liverpool.

The reds don’t need to work hard under the Dutchman they just work smart.

The first goal from the set-piece comes when Liverpool pushed up their attack on City’s build-up, because Dominik Szoboszlai pushed up on Nico Gonzalez and Curtis Jones helped press Rico Lewis as an inverted full-back, City didn’t have a way to get two central players in space.

From the resulting corner, Liverpool’s smart set-piece routine got the first goal.

Though City had their chances, it didn’t feel as though there was ever a point where Liverpool wouldn’t relinquish the lead.

On the other hand, when City pressed Liverpool, the manner in which the Reds were able to change the speed of their attack was impressive.

City buckled under Liverpool’s press, the opposite happened when City pushed up high out of possession.

As City looked to pen Liverpool in, when the ball went wide to Andy Robertson, Szoboszlai emerged as the spare man to pass inside with Savinho too slow to follow up, from this Liverpool constantly found an out ball away from City’s press to successfully get up the pitch.

As mentioned earlier, Liverpool are such a versatile team in attack and defence.

If you drop back and try to defend a little deeper, they’ll simply knock it in behind.

They can do this because firstly, they have one of the best passers in the world in Trent Alexander-Arnold and then have strikers like Mohamed Salah to get on the end of it.

This goal was a throwback to the West Ham game where Liverpool wasted no time in doing this and even started encouraging runners who weren’t strikers to run in behind.

With Liverpool comfortably 2-0 up, Pep Guardiola tried to get back in the game by having City’s forwards drop for the ball in the half-space.

Aware of this danger both Van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate kept stepping out from their defensive line to follow Marmoush which meant he couldn’t turn and drive into space.

After a tough run of away fixtures to Everton, Aston Villa, and Man City, a small window of uncertainty might’ve been opening up.

But in a game that has defied the Premier League over the years, Liverpool slammed the window shut.

They’re not champions yet, but the game against City over the weekend feels like a seismic moment for Liverpool to claim their first Premier League title since 2019/20.

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