Gary Neville makes ANOTHER crazy Liverpool prediction

Liverpool’s start to the season has raised expectations across the board.

15 wins from 17 games in all competitions. Just one loss. Top of the Champions League. Top of the Premier League. Fewest goals conceded. Joint second-most goals scored. Slotball is here.

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Arne Slot has worked wonders in his short time in charge of the club, and has Liverpool fans dreaming of a season ending in trophies.

When Jurgen Klopp announced his departure at the end of last season, many expected a similar downfall for Liverpool as we saw at Man United and Arsenal after Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger left.

The opposite has been the case so far - Liverpool somehow look even better this season than they did in Klopp’s final year in charge.

After a successful international break for the Reds, which saw Curtis Jones get his debut England goal, Dominik Szoboszlai score a last-minute panenka against Germany and Ben Doak announce himself as Scotland’s future best player.

Attention now turns to the weekend, as Slot and his players travel south to face bottom of the table Southampton.

Slot will be boosted by the fact that Virgil Van Dijk and Mohamed Salah were both given extra rest time during the break and the news that Harvey Elliott is back in contention after a long absence through injury.

Liverpool should win this game comfortably but will need to avoid complacency with bigger games on the horizon. After the weekend, Slot faces a double bill of Real Madrid and Man City, so it would be tempting to rest some players on Sunday.

Neville's Liverpool prediction

The return of the Premier league brings with it the return of Gary Neville’s anti-Liverpool bias.

At the beginning of the season, Gary Neville notably predicted Liverpool to finish below Man United and outside of the top four. Just a couple of months later and the gap between the two clubs is 13 points. How’s that prediction going, Gary?

He's also the man that "didn't see" a big win for Liverpool against United earlier this season, right before Slot's Reds hammered them 3-0. Another wrong prediction.

Now Neville has shared another controversial Liverpool opinion ahead of this weekend’s trip to Southampton.

Speaking on The Overlap, Neville predicted a 1-1 draw between Liverpool and Southampton.

Former Arsenal striker Ian Wright was shocked at the prediction. “Liverpool are top, are you crazy?” he asked Neville.

After Wright’s reaction, Neville tried to change his prediction to a 2-1 Liverpool win, showing he might have been going for a cheap shot at Liverpool fans with his original score line.

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