Peter Crouch has expressed his belief that Liverpool is poised to clinch the Premier League title, marking a fitting farewell for Jurgen Klopp this season.
He also acknowledges that Arsenal has significantly re-entered the title race.
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Following a remarkable eight-game winning streak, Arsenal has risen to the top of the league standings as the international break commences, with ten matches left in the season.
Arsenal is set to face the reigning champions, Manchester City, in a highly anticipated clash at the Etihad Stadium this weekend. Meanwhile, Liverpool is gearing up to host Brighton at Anfield.
Crouch, at the outset of the season, had predicted that Klopp would secure his second Premier League trophy, despite Manchester City’s impressive achievement of a treble in the previous season.
In a recent talkSPORT interview, the ex-Liverpool and England forward reiterated his support for Liverpool’s title bid, while also praising Arsenal for their remarkable recovery after a particularly tough winter.
‘I said Liverpool [would win the title] at the start of the season and I think plenty of people will say there is a bias there and they’re probably slightly right,’ Crouch told the Hawksbee & Jacobs Show.
‘But Arsenal have played themselves back into the conversation for me.
‘Manchester City will obviously be favourites given the recent history and you would say it’s a two-horse race, but Arsenal have just put themselves right back in the mix now.
‘The amount of games that Arsenal have played where they have just won so convincingly… if they get their injured players back then it’s definitely a three-horse race.
‘But I’m going to stick with Liverpool. I still think they can do it.’
During the extensive interview, Crouch reminisced about the array of esteemed defenders he encountered in his playing days, highlighting Chelsea legend John Terry as ‘probably the best of the bunch’.
‘I always remember getting schooled by Tony Adams in one of my first games,’ Crouch added.
‘I was at QPR. It was a cup game, it wasn’t Premier League. I remember Tony Adams and I think it would have been Steve Bould, maybe.
‘I thought I was a Premier League player at the age of 18 but I was playing in the Championship and I thought, “Yeah, I’m scoring goals at this level, I’ll make Premier League level no worries”.
‘Then I came up against Tony Adams and that view changed very quickly. What a defender he was.
‘I think over the years, Sol Campbell gave me a big test because he is so physically strong.
‘But John Terry was probably the best of the bunch, I think.’
