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159 Liverpool are well and truly in the title race this season.
A win against Arsenal on Saturday would mean that the Reds sit top of the league on Christmas Day, and they will be hoping to kick on and push again in the new year.
Whether or not Liverpool can pull away from the chasing pack remains to be seen, but according to Clinton Morrison, speaking on the BBC Radio Five Live Football Daily Podcast, the title race would be over by March if Liverpool currently had Declan Rice in their team.
Morrison says that Liverpool have a huge defensive midfield gap at the moment, and he thinks Rice would be the perfect player to fill that void.
Liverpool would win the league if they had Rice
Morrison shared his verdict on the 24-year-old.
“They have one of the best sixes in the world at the moment with Declan Rice, he was outstanding against Brighton, he can do everything, he was very good at West Ham and he’s an outstanding player,” Morrison said.
“I have loads of mates who are Liverpool fans, and they are envious, if they had got Declan Rice, imagine that Liverpool team,” Hutchison said.
“They would’ve won it, it would’ve been over by March,” Morrison said.
Perfect midfield
It has to be said that Liverpool’s midfield would be bordering on perfect if they had Rice in the team.
Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai would have so much more freedom if they had a player like Rice doing all the dirty work behind them.
Of course, Liverpool have missed the boat on Rice now and he will never realistically end up at Anfield now, but they need a player in Rice’s mould at some point in the near future.
Whether or not Liverpool can find the right player in that position remains to be seen.
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