Wayne Rooney has predicted Liverpool will win the Premier League title, preventing last term's winners Manchester City from becoming champions for the third straight season.
Rooney, a former Manchester United captain and the club's all-time record goalscorer, faces seeing his old team's two fiercest rivals fight for the title for the second campaign in a row.
Liverpool moved eight points clear at the top after Saturday's dramatic defeat of Leicester City, James Milner's 95th-minute penalty securing a 17th successive league win, with City in action at home to Wolves on Sunday.