Former Premier League winner Chris Sutton has disagreed with Jamie Carragher that Liverpool will not be title challengers this season.
The Reds suffered a setback in their early season push for top spot on Sunday when they had to settle for a 1-1 draw at newly-promoted Luton Town
Carragher's post-match analysis brought about the suggestion that Liverpool would not be winning a title at all - and would not even challenge without the signing of a "top-class defender" or a midfielder.
Though the fact still remains, the Reds are just three points behind leaders and defending champions Manchester City after 11 matches
Sutton believes Carragher's words are premature.
Sutton
"Do I think Liverpool will win the league? No, I don't think Liverpool will win the league.
"Do I think that they can really put a challenge in on Manchester City? Yes, so I don't know why Jamie Carragher has written them off as such."
Sutton continued:
"As well as Luton played and they did play well, really resilient, Liverpool still missed a lot of chances - big chances.
"Jota had the one in the first half where he tried to beat the keeper and his near post though the the easier option would have been to just to go across the goalkeeper into the far corner.
"But your mate Darwin, Darwin Nunez. A player I think who we both like, he scored a brilliant goal didn't he, against Bournemouth. I mean, an unbelievable goal. And then he goes from that to that miss...
"And it's moments like that if you want to challenge Manchester City... I felt, I'm not a Liverpool fan and I have nothing against Luton but I felt deflated a little bit because you want there to be a title race.
"Every time Liverpool drop points... you know, we've got Arsenal fanboys on the production here who are desperate for Arsenal to win the league and maybe that was some of (Mikel) Arteta's frustration that they know they can't keep dropping points with Manchester City."
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