Soton are quite capable of shipping a handful, and 5-0 does us no favors.
A win (which increases GD) on Sunday MIGHT win us the League, regardless of what happens the following Sunday, IF Soton can get anything out of a game where Klopp will be forced to rotate.
Our result on Sunday MIGHT force Klopp’s hand, if it is decent enough, because going into their Soton game 6 points behind and a GD in the 8/9/10 range would virtually guarantee the League for us.
However, anything less than a victory (which would give us a MINIMUM 8 GD) on Sunday gives them a lifeline requiring a result for us against Villa.
This Sunday is OUR CUP FINAL! Win it, stay 3 points ahead, with a minimum 8 goal GD advantage, and it would require both a Herculean effort by Liverpool to win the FA Cup on Saturday, their Soton game by a wide margin on Tuesday and then their last game against Wolves by another wide margin, just to have a chance….unless we ship a bunch of goals while losing to Villa to help them!
This is not only in our hands, but we have greatly enhanced that hand by winning so well in the last few games. It has been a few performances WORTY of Champions, but has not assured us of anything…YET!
ONWARDS!