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Alex Smith

Supercomputer calculates Liverpool's chances of winning the Premier League title

Liverpool have been rated as having a 98 per cent chance of winning the Premier League this season by a supercomputer.

The Reds boast an impressive 13-point lead at the top of the table, and have two games in hand over title rivals Manchester City and one in hand over Leicester.

Jurgen Klopp's men are yet to lose in the league this season, and have only dropped two points all season, scoring 50 goals and conceding just 14 times - 11 fewer than the next most parsimonious side, City.

If they were to replicate their form in the second half of the season, the Reds would lift their maiden domestic crown for 30 years, and would be the 19th league title in their history.

Liverpool have a 98 per cent chance of winning the Premier League this season (Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

It looks like a foregone conclusion and the maths whizzes at fivethirtyeight have run the numbers through their supercomputer and reckon it will be a cakewalk for the Reds.

They reckons that it is almost inevitable that Liverpool will lift the famous trophy - with just a two per cent chance they won't - having missed out by a single point last season.

The Merseyside club are predicted to claim 100 points over the course of the season, to level City's Premier League record tally from the 2017-18 campaign.

Liverpool are on course to win the Premier League this season (PA)

That would hand Liverpool the title with a 16-point lead over Pep Guardiola's men, who are the only team given more than one per cent chance of testing the Reds.

The Reds' current goal difference of 36 will grow to 64 - the same as City.

For the rest of the league... Liverpool and City will be joined in the Champions League places by the Foxes and Chelsea - handing Frank Lampard the perfect first year as a top flight manager.

Manchester United will beat Tottenham to fifth, but the Red Devils will be nine points adrift of the top four.

Arsenal have been predicted to finish 11th - just a single point ahead of previous relegation strugglers Southampton - with Tottenham, Everton , Crystal Palace , Wolves and Sheffield United finishing above them.

At the bottom, Norwich have a 93 per cent chance of getting relegated, with Bournemouth and Aston Villa likely to drop into the Championship with them - both are ranked as 54 and 50 per cent respectively.

In form Watford will secure safety by six points.

Fivethirtyeight work out their forecasting by playing out each Premier League season 20,000 times.

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