The Premier League has reached its halfway point, offering a chance to assess the season so far. Liverpool leads the race, but the gap to Arsenal is tight and Chelsea's recent struggles highlight the volatility of the league.
Storm Darragh may have disrupted plans for the two Merseyside clubs. However, for the rest of the Premier League, the halfway point of the season has been reached. Arsenal 's comfortable 3-1 victory over Brentford on New Year's Day signifies that, excluding Liverpool and Everton following last month's Goodison derby postponement, each team has faced all 19 other top-flight teams once.
As Arne Slot has repeatedly emphasized, this point marks the ideal opportunity to evaluate the season thus far and, crucially, anticipate the remaining challenges in the race for the Premier League title. Slot previously discussed this milestone ahead of Liverpool's trip to Tottenham Hotspur just over a fortnight ago. 'As I have said for the last three or four months, judge the table after 19 games because then everyone has played the same opponents,' he stated. 'Probably we had a bit of luck, for example Arsenal had a lot of red cards in the beginning of the season and that's why they dropped points. We have now received a red card and we dropped points (at home to Fulham). We now have Tottenham away which Arsenal had at the beginning of the season, Chelsea already played there.' It's important to note that, before the Christmas weekend, if Chelsea had won at Everton and Liverpool had failed to beat Tottenham - a scenario not entirely implausible - the Londoners would have topped the table at Christmas. Instead, less than two weeks later, they find themselves 10 points behind the Reds in fourth place after a goalless draw at Goodison was followed by defeats at home to local rivals Fulham and away to struggling Ipswich Town. This illustrates the fluidity of the situation and serves as a warning to those tempted to overestimate Liverpool's six-point lead over Arsenal, with the game in hand to be played at Everton at a later date
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