The reason Liverpool are top of the league and strolling towards the title is because they play so many ways. They can be direct and press high. They can control the tempo and keep the ball. And they’ve now shown they can sit in deep and hit teams on the counter and make set-pieces work.

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta blasted his players for failing to hit the standards demanded of Premier League title winners in a crushing 1-0 defeat to lowly West Ham on Saturday."That was nowhere near the levels that we have to hit to have the opportunity to win a Premier League.