Arsenal Invincible Martin Keown backs Liverpool to complete league season unbeaten

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Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown feels Liverpool are capable of completing the Premier League season unbeaten, as per the Daily Mail.

Keown was part of the Gunners side which went through the 2003/04 league campaign unbeaten en route to 49 matches without defeat.

Liverpool’s run stands at 37 ahead of the trip to Tottenham tomorrow and if the Reds do complete the season unbeaten, they will wrack up 56 league matches without defeat.

Keown said: “Liverpool’s players may be striving for perfection but they can always improve. It’s about energy and desire. The manager has to create an environment where everybody wants to do better. Arsene Wenger did that with us, so has Klopp. The German has got Liverpool playing good football, too.

“It won’t be easy. But as someone who was part of an Invincibles group 16 years ago, do I think Liverpool will stay unbeaten this season? Yes I do. They have all the right ingredients.”

TBR’s View – Rotation may be biggest barrier to unbeaten Liverpool season

Talk of unbeaten seasons is usually premature, but if Liverpool avoid defeat tomorrow, they would wrack up the equivalent of a 38-game league campaign undefeated. That makes it a genuine possibility.

But with such a big lead in the Premier League, the closing weeks of the season may see Liverpool rotate if they are still going strong in the Champions League and FA Cup.

Would it really be worth fielding a full-strength side to preserve an unbeaten league season if the game falls between a crucial Champions League quarter-final or semi-final?

As Keown admits himself, Arsenal should have done better in other competitions during the season they were invincible in the Premier League. Pragmatism over the pursuit of multiple trophies may stop Liverpool emulating Keown’s side.

That would be the correct way to go. But, Liverpool’s squad depth has proved so strong right now that even their rotated sides are winning Merseyside derbies, so maybe it’s not a case of one or the other.