‘They’re not right’: Gary Neville shares what Tottenham will be thinking about Liverpool

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Gary Neville believes Tottenham Hotspur will have sensed a weakness in Premier League title rivals Liverpool this season, as he told Sky Sports.

Despite losing Joe Gomez, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Alisson Becker, Thiago Alcantara and the totemic presence of Virgil van Dijk during an injury-hit start to the campaign, Jurgen Klopp’s champions still look like the team to beat.

That 7-2 thumping at the hands of Aston Villa might have sent shockwaves across the world, but it is also the only time Liverpool have failed to take at least one point from a domestic game this season.

After 11 matches, the Merseyside giants have 24 points and are only second, behind Tottenham, on goal-difference alone.

Neville, however, feels that Spurs will be quietly confident of ending their 13-year trophy drought as long as arguably the most influential central defender in the European game is stuck on the sidelines.

“I’ve said before that I think Liverpool win this league at a canter if Virgil van Dijk was fit, no one can get near them,” the Manchester United legend explained.

“I still think they win this league, but there are just some little things that are going against them that have not gone against them in the last couple of years.

“There are just a couple of teams, Chelsea at the moment, Tottenham, that are just looking at them and thinking: “They are not right and we are OK here, we are just starting to hit form and spirit and we are getting closer to them.”

“The top two (Liverpool and Manchester City) have set a bar that I’ve never seen before, none of us have ever seen before in the last couple of seasons. And now we are seeing something that is more normal.”

Tottenham may not be playing the kind of sparkling attacking football that made them the neutrals favourites in Mauricio Pochettino’s heyday, but Mourinho has the London giants chugging along like an unstoppable winning machine.

A run of seven points out of nine against Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal felt like a real statement of intent.

Meanwhile, in Harry Kane and Heung Min Son, Spurs have arguably the league’s most fearsome attacking partnership, a pair capable of taking apart any defence.