Manchester City in the 5th position is definitely a surprise. And I don't think anybody expected Liverpool to actually be ahead by nine points compared to the second team on the table. Especially as they got a new coach. The match between Manchester City and Liverpool was also pretty unexpected. It was like Liverpool dominated the whole match. Did not give any chance to Manchester City at all. The way Liverpool has been playing has definitely impressed a lot of people, including me. I think if they are able to keep this up, and they do not take it easy thinking that they are already nine points ahead of everyone else and they can afford to take it easy, they are going to win the English Premier League title. But you never know, we have seen funnier things happen in football. But Liverpool will have to screw up big time if they are actually not able to win the English Premier League title from this situation.
Both of them are true, nobody expected City to have a full month where they didn't win a single game, it's been 7 or 8 years since that happened I guess, probably more. Also nobody expected Arne Slot to come in and just dominate the league neither, and I do not understand what makes Liverpool this much better, I watch their game and there isn't a specific strategy that makes them better neither.
Like how Pep had his tiki-taka, and how Klopp had gegenpress, and Mourinho had defensive counter attacking, etc etc, everyone has their own strategy. I do not see Arne doing anything special, he doesn't have anything specific like that, the team just... plays better? That's the best I can explain, they are playing a very usual style of football without anything extraordinary, but they play it extraordinarily good and that is how they are dealing with the situation and that's how Liverpool is at the top right now. I suppose we can say what Arne slot does is just get the best out of people.