Gary Neville has said Liverpool will not runaway with the Premier League title and ponders the possibility of a Jose Mourinho vs Frank Lampard title race.
Spurs ended the weekend top of the Premier League after a tactically astute 2-0 victory over Manchester City on Saturday. It is the first time they have ended a day top of the summit since August 2014.
It sets up a mouthwatering clash with Lampard’s Chelsea next weekend, with the west Londoners also finding a run of form that has catapulted them to within two points of Spurs. Chelsea’s fifth consecutive victory at Newcastle extended their unbeaten run in all competitions to 12 games and had lifted them briefly to the summit until Tottenham leapfrogged them.
Speaking before Liverpool’s win over Leicester that took them level on points with Spurs, Neville said on The Gary Neville Podcast: “I’m excited for next Sunday with Chelsea playing Tottenham.
“It’s an interesting season. We thought Chelsea might be interesting at the start of the season as they have a young, exciting squad – it looks like Frank Lampard is starting to get it right. He was still searching for his best team in the first few matches to try and fit everyone in. There were certain players that weren’t fit but now they are and he’s starting to work it out. They look pretty strong.
“Is it a season where Jose Mourinho and Frank Lampard being up against each other in a title race? I thought Liverpool would run away with it, but not now, not the with Virgil van Dijk injury. That’s the one that is the gamechanger and exposes them a lot more.”