Graeme Souness reveals club that could stop Liverpool from winning Premier League title

Former Newcastle United manager, Graeme Souness has said that the club will be the biggest huddle to Liverpool’s chances of claiming the Premier League title.

He said Newcastle United’s away game against Liverpool will be the Red’s “dangerous game” to overcome if they are to give themselves a big chance of winning the title this season.

The Reds’ 2-0 victory over Chelsea saw them leapfrog Manchester City back to the summit of the Premier League on Sunday.

This was after Manchester City, who still have a game in hand, had temporarily moved above them, thanks to their 3-1 win at Crystal Palace earlier.

Manchester City’s remaining fixtures look tougher with Tottenham and Manchester United amongst their opponents with five matches to go, while Liverpool will face Cardiff, Huddersfield, Newcastle United and Wolves.

“I think, looking at them, the dangerous game for City is the United game. Derby games notoriously hard to predict,” Souness told Sky Sports.

“And the dangerous game for Liverpool, for me, is Newcastle away.

“I think the next game takes care of itself, Cardiff. Although they will want to go to war, Cardiff, they’ll be fighting for their lives, I think Liverpool – given the back four and midfield they have – will deal with that, and then the three guys up front have got a goal or two.

“I think Huddersfield takes care of itself, they’re already thinking about next season. For me, the Newcastle one is a worry.

“The way Rafa sets his team up, you can see he’s quite happy to sit back, absorb the pressure and try and catch them on the break.

“Tactically he’s very, very good and the support up there will be right up for that game, they’ll want to put a spoke in it.

“And then ideally you’d have been wanting Wolves to get to the cup final so their minds would have been somewhere else. We’ve seen against big teams they do well.

“But for me, it’s Liverpool at Newcastle and City at Old Trafford. They are the games that will decide this league.”