Liverpool can secure the Premier League title this weekend, and with Tottenham the visitor to Anfield, not many soccer fans are anticipating the title race extending beyond Sunday.
Sixteenth-placed Tottenham has won just one of its last seven top-flight games and is also winless away to Liverpool since 2011. Gary Neville has already tipped the game to be 'barbaric' while Paul Merson said that Liverpool couldn't have picked a better team to be playing against than Spurs.
Premier League-winning former striker Chris Sutton has added his prediction to the pile — and he also thinks Ange Postecoglou and his players are in for a rough afternoon on Merseyside.
"Liverpool only need a point to make sure of the title, and it is going to happen against Tottenham on Sunday," Sutton said as he tipped a 4-1 Liverpool victory in his BBC predictions. "There is an argument that Spurs, and Manchester United too, should go strong in these Premier League games to try to find the rhythm they have been lacking all season, and get the team playing the way we know they can to help them in their Europa League semi-finals.
"But I don't see Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou doing that before his side play Bodo/Glimt on Thursday, and I can only see one outcome. Liverpool have hardly been that sharp of late but they will be determined to win the title in front of their own fans for the first time in 35 years.
"They were not able to do that when they last won the title in 2020 because of the Covid regulations at the time, so doing it now is a big deal for them. I am expecting them to raise their game and blow Spurs away to get the job done."
Sutton was joined in making predictions by golfer Lee Westwood, who also predicted the Reds to record a win by a three-goal margin.
"Liverpool would like to win it there (at Anfield), wouldn't they?" Westwood said as he backed a 3-0 Liverpool success. "Tottenham might rest people, and Forest have just beaten them. They haven't got much incentive to do anything to stop Liverpool."