Michael Owen sees Liverpool as the favourites to win the Champions League and says their biggest competition could come from Premier League teams Chelsea and Man City.
The Reds brushed aside Atletico Madrid at Anfield on Wednesday to book their place in the knockout stages and ensure they will finish top of Group B.
Liverpool won the Champions League in 2019, 12 months after losing in the final to Real Madrid, and Owen believes they will enjoy another productive run in the competition this campaign.
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The former England player rates Liverpool as the ‘favourites’ and believes their ‘biggest dangers’ in Europe will be Chelsea and Man City.
The Blues won the Champions League last season and have made a remarkable start to the 2021-22 campaign, winning eight of their ten league games and three of their four European matches.
When asked if Liverpool are the favourites to win the Champions League, Owen told BT Sport: ‘I think English football and the Premier League is so far ahead of everyone else at the moment and getting even stronger.
‘We’ve been ahead for a few years anyway and then we’ve taken the two best players in the Italian league in Ronaldo and Lukaku.
‘Lionel Messi’s gone to a weaker league so the Spanish league has got weaker. I can never really take the French league as seriously as maybe I should.
‘We’re taking the best managers as well. I think the biggest dangers to Liverpool are probably Man City and Chelsea.
‘You look at the Anfield factor, I just can’t get that out of my head. Good luck going there in the second leg of a European tie. They are almost unbeatable at Anfield.
