The supercomputer from OPTA predicted the final finish position of each Premier League side prior to the Run-in season.
While we are entering the last international break of the campaign, both have only two games left, with Newcastle and Crystal Palace left 10 left to play because of the Carabao Cup final. Liverpool got the game they would play at the weekend – a 2-2 draw with Aston Villa – last month.
And it is indeed the Reds who, despite a week from hell, who saw them from the Champions League and lose the final of the Carabao Cup, are nicely at the top of the tree.
The men of Arne Slot have a 12 points lead over the nearest Rivals Arsenal, one that many of the conviction, simply not closed to stop the Reds to win their second Premier League title.
That can be the case – but what does Opta have about the case? Who will probably end in the Champions League and other European places? And can Ippswich, Leicester or Southampton come from the bottom three?
In consideration, Opta has answered all those questions and predicted where each party will end on 25 May.
Indeed, it is Liverpool who will probably win the competition, according to the Boffins in Opta. Despite their recent blips, the men from Slot get a vocals of 98.98 percent to eliminate the title for Arsenal, who receive a change of 1.02 percent to claim their first title of the first division since 2004.
With teams such as Everton, Leicester, West Ham and Crystal Palace left to play, it is predicted that Liverpool will end at 89.43 points, which means that they achieve 19.43 points of their last nine games with an average of 2.16 points per game.
Arsenal, it is expected to end at 76.75 points, about 13 behind Liverpool, which take 18.75 games of their last nine games at a speed of 2.08 points per match, including matches against people such as Ipswich, Newcastle and Bournemouth.
In a plus for Nottingham Forest fans, it is predicted that Nuno Espirito Santo will end at the Champions League places, almost two points ahead of Manchester City to get a return to European football.
The city is expected to be fourth when they surrender their title, 1.82 points behind the forest. Completing England's quota for the European competition is expected to be League Cup champions Newcastle – for Chelsea.
The Magpies are currently sixth in the league table, two points behind Chelsea with a competition in hand. Win that, and they will jump both City and the blues to the fourth jump.
It is predicted that the men of Eddie Howe will end at 63.95 points, with a chance of 30.44 percent to qualify for the most important competition of Europe for next season. It would mark their return to the Champions League after a year away – they have already qualified for Europe after beating Liverpool on Sunday.
That would let Chelsea end up outside the top five, if the first side that protects Europa League football -what they will do if they win the conference competition, as expected.
The side of Enzo Maresca has fallen from a cliff in terms of their shape this calendar year. Ever thought to be in a three-way title race next to Liverpool and Arsenal, they don't have trouble holding their top five status.
In the competition they have won only two of their last five games – against Southampton and Leicester – and struggle for the goal, with Talisman Cole Palmer struggling for form itself.
According to Opta, the blues only end up 0.61 points behind Newcastle, with their match against the Magpies at 10 – Three games from the end of the season – that are crucial,
In general, they get a chance of 27.37 percent to qualify for the Champions League in the first season of Maresca.
That also means that there will be no Champions League finish for people like Brighton, Aston Villa, Bournemouth and Fulham, who themselves have leading European ambitions.
Although all four parties could still be eligible for Europe by winning the FA Cup of Champions League, they are confronted with fighting to do this through their competition positions.
Brighton is currently seventh in the competition, Fulham Eighth, Villa Ninth and Bournemouth 10th. Through Opta's prediction, Brighton will end where they are now, Villa Eighth, Bournemouth Ninth and Fulham 10th.
It is predicted that 5.1 points separate the parties, with Brighton getting an 8.32 percent chance to end at the Champions League places, before Villa by 3.02 percent. Fulham gets less than one percent chance.
Lower the table downstairs, expected to be Manchester United and Tottenham, will end 13th and 14th respectively.
United has been improved lately – unbeaten in their last seven games in 90 minutes – but the damage caused earlier in the season means that the European qualification is almost impossible.
Finally, in terms of relegation it seems an incredible long recording that one of the newly promoted teams will remain this season.
Southampton, who is still currently running the risk of not overthrowing the worst Premier League points in Derby County, get a 100 percent chance of relegation. However, they are predicted that they will end with 14.65 points – 5.65 points more than what they have now and 3.65 more than derby's 11.
Leicester, who are in a terrible form under Ruud van Nistelrooy, is currently nine points drift from Wolves in the 17th in the Liga table and get a chance of 99.54 percent to survive.
There is also not much more hope for Ipswich, who on the same points of Leicester, get a 99.32 chance of relegation. Wolves are the only other side with a more than zero percent chance of falling, with a chance of 1.14 percent.
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