I think Liverpool are good enough at least for second place, because their quality has not gone down it is just a confidence issue and a lot of bad luck I would say. The player composition is always a problem and now they know for sure they could not rely on same 11 players season after season. They overperformed for 2 seasons already and now the average is coming into play. Alisson is still top keeper,,, no doubt. Reality is just a painful thing.
I do agree that Liverpool is much much better than they have been in the past month, and they will definitely recover from this and become a much better team soon and show how good they are once again. However I am not entirely sure about the second place deal, that seems a bit harder to achieve by the looks of it.
Liverpool is at 40 points and United is at 46 right now (so is Leicester by the way) and that is 2 game difference as a whole. Could that change? There is a chance that could change, we still have 14 games left but that just means it is a bit harder for Liverpool to be there right now.
Of course we are talking about Liverpool here and they could even go 14/14 in the last games, they are THAT good but it is going to be a tough one for them, with champions league coming back now, it is going to take a lot more fatigue issues as well.
