{"id":537916,"date":"2026-03-13T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537916\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:14:09","slug":"liverpool-not-arsenal-best-team-in-premier-league-michael-owen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537916\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool, not Arsenal, best team in Premier League – Michael Owen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Owen believes Liverpool<\/a> are the “best team in the Premier League<\/a>” despite their struggles this season, and that Arsenal<\/a> aren’t “even close” to being as good as Arne Slot’s side were last year.<\/p>\n

Liverpool came into the 2025-26 campaign looking for back-to-back league titles, but their defence has fallen flat — currently lying sixth, 19 points off leaders Arsenal with nine games remaining.<\/p>\n

But Liverpool and England<\/a> icon Owen, speaking on The Wayne Rooney Show on BBC, said that on their day, they’re still the cream of the crop.<\/p>\n

“Personally I think they’re the best team in the Premier League,’ the former Ballon d’Or winner said about Liverpool.<\/p>\n

“People will laugh like, ‘where are they, sixth in the league?’ They trounced the league last season, they’re just not playing well.<\/p>\n

“But if you get the best performance out of every team in the Premier League and say, ‘right, go on. Your best against your best,’ I think Liverpool are the best team.”<\/p>\n

He added: “It’s hard to believe that they’re worse now. But I just think it’s a matter of time, maybe next season, before you see them at their very top again.”<\/p>\n

Arne Slot and Mikel Arteta are leading different Premier League campaigns this year.\u00a0Liverpool FC\/Liverpool FC via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Arsenal hold a seven-point lead over Manchester City<\/a>, who have a game in hand, at the top, but have attracted critics for their style of football.<\/p>\n

Mikel Arteta’s side have a record-tying 16 goals from corners this season, and are also rigid at the back.<\/p>\n

“Arsenal I think will go on to win the league,” Owen explained.<\/p>\n

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“But you can’t tell me they’re as good as, or even close to Liverpool last season. I think Liverpool have got it in them — they’re just not doing it consistently.”<\/p>\n

Liverpool scored 86 goals last year on the way to racking up 84 points. Arsenal are 17 points off that total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Owen believes Liverpool are the “best team in the Premier League” despite their struggles this season, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-537916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}