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Albert Riera, Yossi Benayoun, and Sami Hyypia of Liverpool during a training session at AXA Training Centre (Image: 2025 Liverpool FC)

Liverpool will be looking to clinch the Premier League title in the forthcoming weeks, with the Reds currently 12 points clear at the top of the table with nine games left to play.

We’re gonna win the league!’

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Supporters have already sung the song about the champions elect, dusting it off the first time away at Man City when Liverpool ran out 2-0 winners against their former title foes back on February 23.



Then, it was as much about sticking the knife into Pep Guardiola’s reigning champions as their own confidence about the Reds’ endeavours.

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They have been here before, of course.

The following day, Federico Macheda struck a stoppage-time winner in a 3-2 victory over Aston Villa to reclaim top spot, with United having trailed with little over 10 minutes left to play.

They would go unbeaten for the rest of the Premier League season, dropping points only once at home to Arsenal, as they pipped Liverpool to the league title by four points.

Benayoun believed Liverpool would go on to win the league after his last-gasp winner in the capital.

But across three seasons, he was unable to win a trophy with the Reds - despite the Israeli’s best efforts.

He set up Fernando Torres in the Champions League semi-final defeat to Chelsea in 2008, and Lucas Leiva in the quarter-final exit to the same opposition the following year - having already scored a famous winner against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu in the previous round.

He’d also scored twice in a 4-4 draw with Arsenal that ultimately proved costly to Premier League title hopes only weeks after his late Fulham winner.

He would then go on to win his only honour during his time in English football under the Spaniard as he was an unused substitute for their 2013 Europa League win over Benfica.

Yet the Israeli still feels the strongest allegiance to Liverpool, to the extent he declined the opportunity to represent both the Reds and Chelsea in last weekend’s legends match between the two at Anfield.

That match marked Benayoun’s first appearance at Liverpool’s famous ground since May 2010, where he started against future employers Chelsea as a 2-0 victory won them the Premier League title.

Given how the midfielder’s Reds career ended, it made his return to Anfield all these years later all the more special.

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“You have a dream to play for big clubs like Liverpool and I was lucky to do it,” he said.
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