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Premier League: How Wolves Can Stop Liverpool’s Unbeaten Run

By Keith Lisenbee

SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 18: Raul Jimenez of Wolverhampton Wanderers celebrates scoring his sides third goal during the Premier League match between Southampton FC and Wolverhampton Wanderers at St Mary's Stadium on January 18, 2020 in Southampton, United Kingdom. (Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)
SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 18: Raul Jimenez of Wolverhampton Wanderers celebrates scoring his sides third goal during the Premier League match between Southampton FC and Wolverhampton Wanderers at St Mary's Stadium on January 18, 2020 in Southampton, United Kingdom. (Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images) /
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Liverpool has won 13 Premier League matches in a row. Wolverhampton Wanderers are next on their list. Wolves have a chance to pull a stunning upset and here’s a strategy of how they might do it.

Afore the Wolves and Liverpool encounter coming on Thursday, I was trying to see if any of the Wolves fans would provide me with any ideas of how, and not if, they could stop the undefeated run of the league leaders, Liverpool.

Unfortunately, there was no response to the tweet which could mean one of two things. The first possibility, the home fans are worried and trying to determine what’s the solution needed to halt the Reds is a maths equation unsolvable to man.

The second, I could have been the only soul alive at that hour of the tweet, which is beyond belief. I’m going with the former on this split. I tweeted the following (silly me made the error of thinking the intense clash is coming over the weekend ahead)…

No reply? No problem!

So I have been left to my own devices on how the 6th place Premier League club with the wolf on their crest could come out victorious. I ran through the possibilities:

  1. The entire Liverpool starting line-up defects to Latvia.
  2. The Red’s manager, Jurgen Klopp, suddenly leaves the club to become a monk in a castle in the Black Forest of Germany.
  3. Wolverhampton’s players suddenly develop super-powers similar to The Avengers.
  4. The Wolves transfer in the free transfers of Lionel Messi, Christiano Ronaldo, and a 27-year-old Roy Keane.
  5. Klopp and the entire Liverpool starting line-up is abducted by aliens in a UFO flown by Sir Alex Ferguson.

I spent most of the night weighing each of these possibilities and determined that either they were implausible or even if they did occur would still result in the Reds winning the match.

In between eating old pastries and drinking stale beer, I started reviewing numbers, videos, speeches by Winston Churchill, press conferences, and scenarios on video games and came up with a more plausible strategy for how the Wolves could beat (or at least draw) Liverpool.

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