LONDON -- Liverpool are a fabulous, thrilling, football team in full flow. All controlled aggression, relentless pace, viscerally incisive attacks, loosely organised chaos.
But the reason they're eight points clear at the top of the Premier League and holding steady on their course for a first title in 30 years is that they're more than that. They don't have to be in full flow to win.
They're winning games scruffily, calmly, luckily. Through sheer force of personality, through skill, through brilliant goals. By taking full advantage of mistakes, by calmly taking control of games, by just refusing to give up.