With the Premier League returning this weekend, Sky Sports assesses the pros and cons of title challengers Liverpool, Arsenal and Man City...

LIVERPOOL

Sky Sport's' Richard Morgan:

Con: History is against the Reds

There is a reason Opta's supercomputer rates Liverpool's chances of retaining their title at just 7.1 per cent and that is because only four teams in Premier League history having ever managed to claw back a deficit of eight or more points at this stage of the season to win the title [although Man Utd have done it four times and Man City twice].

For that to happen, not only would Arsenal and Man City both have to start dropping points, but Liverpool would also then need to go on the sort of long unbeaten run that currently looks well beyond a side that has already lost fiv

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