'The first of three finals' - how good can Liverpool's season be?

"The archetypal of 3 finals," is however Arne Slot described Liverpool's 3-1 comeback triumph implicit Southampton to spell 16 points wide successful the Premier League.

The Reds present look a Champions League necktie with Paris St-Germain and the Carabao Cup last with Newcastle earlier they are successful league enactment again.

Liverpool's imagination of achieving the Treble was ended past period by Plymouth successful the 4th circular of the FA Cup - but they stay firmly successful the hunt for 3 trophies.

"It's a motion of a bully squad that you tin triumph successful antithetic ways," Slot told BBC Match of the Day aft the match.

"It was a mediocre show archetypal fractional - not lone due to the fact that of the mode we played but besides due to the fact that of the vigor we brought."

He added successful his post-match quality conference: "This was the astir important crippled of the week. The archetypal of 3 finals. I anticipation successful the adjacent finals we play a spot amended than the archetypal one."

Mohamed Salah netted 2 penalties astatine Anfield, with Darwin Nunez scoring the different arsenic they came backmost from 1-0 down.

A mix-up betwixt Virgil van Dijk and Alisson had allowed Will Smallbone to springiness the Premier League's bottommost broadside a half-time lead.

Slot's broadside person had to combat for 2 wins successful a week arsenic helium bids for a trophy-laden archetypal play since replacing nine icon Jurgen Klopp.

"I don't deliberation we played bully today," said Salah, who has 32 goals successful each competitions.

Salah has been progressive successful 44 Premier League goals this play (27 goals, 17 assists), the joint-most by a subordinate successful a 38-game season.

"If you privation to triumph the Champions League oregon Premier League you person to triumph these games similar that," helium added.

On Tuesday the Reds big Paris St-Germain successful the Champions League past 16 2nd leg, starring 1-0 from their smash and drawback astatine the Parc des Princes.

"The lone bully happening successful the archetypal 45 minutes was that they saved their vigor [for PSG] and didn't tally astatine all," quipped Slot.

"It was possibly the archetypal clip this play I saw this tempo.

"We person to spell 1 measurement up successful presumption of strength against PSG. Compared to the crippled contiguous we person to spell three, four, five, six, 7 times up successful presumption of strength if we privation to person immoderate accidental of reaching the adjacent round."

Next Sunday they conscionable Newcastle astatine Wembley successful the Carabao Cup last - with a accidental to triumph a archetypal trophy nether their Dutch manager.

"The past 2 games person been precise pugnacious - it is not astir me, it's astir the full team," Harvey Elliott, a half-time substitute connected Saturday and goalscorer successful Paris, told BBC Radio 5 Live.

"We request to support winning games - it's arsenic elemental arsenic that.

"It's astir taking it crippled by crippled and making definite we use ourselves successful the champion imaginable way."

Only 5 English teams - well, 3 clubs - person won 3 regular trophies successful a play before.

That is not counting those you person to suffice for specified arsenic the Community Shield, Uefa Super Cup oregon Club World Cup.

Two person completed the recognised Treble of European Cup, league rubric and FA Cup - Manchester United successful 1998-99 and Manchester City successful 2022-23.

Liverpool person managed to triumph 3 successful a play doubly before.

In 1983-84, they won the 3 they could negociate this play - the aged First Division title, League Cup and European Cup.

A bully omen? They mislaid to a 2nd tier nine successful the FA Cup 4th circular that play excessively - Brighton.

The Reds besides won a hat-trick of cups successful 2000-01 - the FA Cup, League Cup and Uefa Cup.

One squad person won the home treble - Manchester City successful 2018-19 erstwhile they won the league, FA Cup and League Cup.

Plenty of teams person managed to triumph 2 trophies successful 1 season.

Because astir countries bash not person a league cup, Celtic are the lone squad to triumph a quadruple of the European Cup positive 3 home trophies successful 1966-67.

Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Ajax, PSV and Inter Milan are the European teams to person won the Treble before.

The Premier League is practically a foregone decision present with Liverpool truthful acold wide of the chasing pack.

Statisticians Opta springiness Liverpool a 98.9% accidental of winning the title. Arsenal, 16 points behind, person 2 games successful manus - including Sunday's lucifer with Manchester United.

Slot said: "It's 16 for present but that tin beryllium down to 7 by the clip we play Everton successful a fewer weeks."

Arsenal person 3 league games earlier the Reds' adjacent top-flight lucifer with Everton connected 2 April.

And successful the Champions League, Liverpool are the favourites excessively pursuing their first-leg triumph astatine PSG.

They are fixed a 26% probability of winning by Opta.

And Liverpool are overwhelming favourites to triumph adjacent Sunday's Carabao Cup last against Newcastle - astatine astir 1-4 with bookmakers.