Yahoo Sports contributors Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros discuss how the underestimated Liverpool squad are serious contenders to win the Premier League title. Hear the full conversation on the “The Cooligans” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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We're underestimating.

I think Liverpool a little bit because they have looked great this season and the fact that city lost and arsenal loss is just really, really great for Liverpool.

But Liverpool on 25 points and Arsenal at 18, this is, that's a, we now we're talking, this is a real gap for first place at the end of the day.

I think Liverpool are still haven't proven themselves.

And I still think they got that winner gap, better managers and better teams.

They have lost the league by not really preparing this team for these winter breaks.

That don't happen.

You know, they play right through Boxing Day all this.

It's really tough, especially with the amount of competitions that Liverpool is taking part in and want to succeed in.

Liverpool is not one of these Cubs.

They're like, you get us to care about a cup.

You did good this year.

It's not enough.

I think they might have enough to do it.

I think they could possibly win the league and really, really surprise both city and arsenal, especially the game against uh against Brighton Liverpool.

Like legit look like a proper, a proper team.

Man, if I'm not mistaken, they were down two nil in that game.

They were down one nil nil and they ended up winning 2 to 1.

But what I'm saying is they've shown they've been susceptible.

Remember going back last season where City City were uh getting scored on, on the first shot on target, like almost like something like 12 out of 14 matches.

It was like a crazy run.

That's, that shows you that there's those moments of weakness, but they were deep enough to not only go get around it, but also towards the end of the season, they went on these crazy runs every year.

That guard all understands, you need to hold your momentum to the end.

You need, you need to go big at the end.

That's when you need to sort of start to get all the points.

So for a team like Liverpool, they just don't know that yet.

It's very, very likely that it doesn't matter.

It's very likely that they continue to play this way.

But I think it's just as likely that they do slip up because they don't have and maybe there's enough smart soccer people in there to be like, hey, man, you got to prepare for the matches.

This is what's coming up, that's different and they have a plan.

But um, my suggestion is that it's gonna be a little bit of a shock.

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