Dejan Lovren believes Liverpool could emulate Arsenal’s ‘Invincibles’ this season.
The current Premier League leaders remain unbeaten in their past 17 games of the new campaign before Friday’s trip to an in-form Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Jurgen Klopp’s players are aiming topple Manchester City this season and currently enjoy a one-point advantage over Pep Guardiola’s reigning champions.
But Lovren sees no reason why the Reds cannot go one better and repeat the unbeaten season that Arsenal’s class of 2003/04 enjoyed en route to the title.
He said: “Hopefully we can be unbeaten until the end of the season.
“Of course it will be a challenge but this is what we want and this is why we came here to Liverpool, because we know we can do it.
“Arsenal did it before [in 2004], so why not?”
A surprise defeat to Chelsea less than a fortnight ago allowed Liverpool to seize the advantage in the title race as City’s own unbeaten start to the season ended.
Lovren, however, is wary that such slip-ups do not guarantee that Guardiola’s side will relinquish their crown seasily after a 100-point haul last term.
“I’m not sure that they have any weaknessess,” he admitted.
“Last year, they won with 100 points and they know how to manage, even when they lose.
“They lost also last year, I don’t know, one or two games but still they had 19 points in front of [the rest] so it doesn’t mean anything.
“There are so many games, in front of us and in front of them and it will be a tight race.
“But it’s not only City. Tottenham is behind by [only] a couple of points. You cannot sit and enjoy, and say ‘okay, we have five or six points in front of everyone’.
“It doesn’t work like that. Every game for us is a final.”