Liverpool now sit top of the Premier League following their 2-1 win over Brighton and Arsenal’s 0-0 draw with Manchester City at the weekend and Dominik Szoboszlai has spoken out about the title race

Dominik Szoboszlai believes Liverpool no longer have to worry about goal difference following Arsenal’s 0-0 draw with Manchester City.

Liverpool beat Brighton 2-1 on Sunday to go top of the Premier League and the result of Arsenal’s trip to City means Jurgen Klopp’s side now sit two points above their closest title rivals.

The Gunners do have a superior goal difference, 46 to Liverpool’s 40, but Szoboszlai says the Reds are not concerned about that heading into the final stages of the season.

Liverpool star Dominik Szoboszlai (Image: Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

“There are nine games left, we are in first place, which means our fate is in our own hands,” Szoboszlai told Hungarian outlet Sportal.

“If we don’t make a single mistake from now on, we’ll [win the league]. We are progressing from match to match, for now, it is not worth looking any further than Thursday’s league game against Sheffield.

“Every game in the remaining nine rounds must be run as if it were the last – and after Arsenal’s point loss on Sunday, we no longer need to aim for sixteen goals in one of the nine games.”

Szboszlai has starred for Liverpool since making the move to Anfield from RB Leipzig last summer and Klopp has branded the 23-year-old his “chaos creator”. Speaking after the win over Brighton, Klopp said: “Wataru [Endo] and Macca [were] in the right spaces and Dom was the surprising act there, the chaser, the chaos creator.

“And that worked really well I thought. They had possession but not the possession they wanted and that helps. Against the ball, we were really calm. [We] set the trigger in the right moment, really compact, incredible game from the boys.

Jurgen Klopp hailed Szoboszlai after Liverpool’s win over Brighton (
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“The centre, with Macca and Wataru, really good; Dom, like a fireball, jumping out there and creating the chaos. I liked that a lot.” He also hailed the midfielder’s role in Mohamed Salah’s winner, adding: “That is an unbelievable ball [from Szoboszlai].

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“It is the creativity and the quality, seeing that. He sees Macca, his first touch is incredible and then he sees Mo. How wasteful we were at all the other moments it was good we had this genius football moment to finish the game off.”