The competition for the Champions League has heated up in recent weeks, with Liverpool and Newcastle joining Manchester United and Tottenham in targeting a top-four finish

Even if they finish fourth in the Premier League, Liverpool, Brighton, and Newcastle might be denied a place in the Champions League.

The fight to finish inside the top four is fierce, with a slew of teams vying for two spots, despite the fact that Arsenal and Manchester City have all but secured their places in the tournament for next season.

Liverpool, managed by Jurgen Klopp, has Champions League ambitions and hopes to put together a string of performances that would propel them into the top four by the conclusion of the season.

Along with the Reds, Newcastle, Brentford, and Brighton all have significant aspirations of breaking into the top four ahead of Manchester United or Tottenham Hotspur, who presently occupy those two slots.

Even if Liverpool finishes in the top four, there is a chance – albeit a small one – that they may miss out on Champions League status for next season.

If both Manchester United and Chelsea win Europe’s top two cup tournaments but fail to finish in the top four – and one of the other teams, including Liverpool, finishes fourth behind Arsenal, City, and someone else – they will be denied access to the Champions League. Instead, that team would have to make do with a place in the Europa League.

Tottenham missed out on Champions League participation in 2011/12 after Chelsea, who finished sixth, won Europe’s premier club title. The Blues will be aiming for a third title in 11 years when they face Real Madrid in the quarter-finals next month, with their Premier League rivals likely to back their Spanish opponents.

Newcastle can overtake Tottenham if they win either of their games in hand or beat third-place Manchester United immediately after the international break, while Liverpool and Brighton sit fifth and seventh, respectively.

Klopp stated last week regarding his team’s chances of qualifying for the Champions League: “It’s THE competition, and we want to compete every year. That has now become a big task for us. We are aware of this. As we return from the international break, we have a full football week ahead of us, with three games. City, Chelsea, and Arsenal will determine if we get out of it.”

Some of the time in football you get a player who simply does things any other way, and Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold is unquestionably one of those

Trend-setters don’t come around in football regularly, yet Alexander-Arnold likely could be one of the most compelling players of his age with regards to altering how football is seen.

The Liverpool star has some way or another become perhaps of the best playmaker in world football from right-back – already the most un-energizing situation on the pitch, while he’s likewise been at the very front of the new reversed full-back development throughout recent months.

Talking on CBS, Jamie Carragher has been picking his Group of the Year, and the intellectual has, obviously, picked Alexander-Arnold at right-back, guaranteeing that he’s a totally extraordinary player who is not normal for any other individual.

Alexander-Arnold is novel

Carragher shared his decision on the full-back.

“Right, here’s our group. We have Maignan in objective, Trent Alexander-Arnold is totally special as a right full-back, never seen anything like him,” said.

Progressive

In years to come we might well examine Alexander-Arnold as a genuine footballing progressive.

Carragher once said that no youthful footballer at any point needs to be a full-back, broadly saying that no one needs to grow up to be a Gary Neville.

Be that as it may, kids these days likely would like to grow up to be a Trent Alexander-Arnold. He’s changed the significance of what a full-back must be. He’s shown exactly how much that position can influence a game from a going after perspective, and he might well have motivated a youthful age of players who need to imitate his style.

Try not to be stunned assuming in the following 10 years we begin seeing an ever increasing number of in fact splendid full-backs coming through.

Alexander-Arnold’s style of play might well shape football long into the future, and that is a demonstration of exactly the way in which splendid he is.