Trent Alexander-Arnold expects Liverpool to win silverware this season after “sending a statement” with their wins over Real Madrid and Manchester City.
The Reds currently sit top of the Premier League, four points ahead of second-place Chelsea, and eight points clear of reigning champions City with a game in hand.
Arne Slot has started his tenure almost seamlessly, with Liverpool losing just one of their games under him in all competitions so far – a 1-0 home defeat to Nottingham Forest – while they have a perfect record in the Champions League, winning all six their matches.
Liverpool are currently on an 18-match unbeaten run in all competitions and are the favorites to lift the Premier League trophy, with an 82.4% chance of finishing first at the end of the season.
“This is where we want to be [at the top of the table]”, Alexander-Arnold, who is in the final year of his contract, told Sky Sports.
“It's still early, so we can't get too excited. But if you told us this at the beginning of the season, we would have a huge smile on our faces.
“We are in a very, very good position, a very strong position – more so in the league than in the Champions League because then it becomes knockout football and what you have done so far doesn't really matter.
“We just have to stay consistent in the coming months and put ourselves in the best possible position.
“I think we [can] win multiple trophies. “I think that's the level we're at, that's the level we've shown we're capable of, beating the best teams in the world.”
Liverpool continued under Slot where they left off under Jurgen Klopp, scoring two or more goals in each of their last seven Premier League games, the last of which was an extended run between September and December 2021 (11 in a row).
The Reds scored 76 goals in 33 games in 2024, their second-best average goals per game in a year (2.3) in the Premier League era, with a score of 2.38 goals per game in 2019 (88 in 37 games).
Slot's side comfortably beat Man City 2-0 in their last home game in the Premier League, following a 2-0 win over Madrid in the Champions League, and Alexander-Arnold believes this could be the turning point.
“I think this was just a statement week for the team, for the club. They are probably our two biggest rivals in Europe and domestically over the last five or six years,” he added.
“I think we struggled to overcome them as a team. So to beat them both in just a few days was something that showed everyone that we are a real team.
“And whether they wanted to believe it before or they still don't believe it, we don't care. We know what level we are at. What others want to think about us has no influence on us.
“We know the quality we have. We know what levels we can reach. We know we have a lot to improve on, and we will do that, and we will get better throughout the season, which I think is good for us and bad for someone else.”
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