Three points cover 6 to 11 in Premier League
Liverpool sit 6th on 9 points, Ipswich Town are 11th on 6, and the gap between them is 3.
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Six places, three points. That is the whole story of the middle of the Premier League table after five rounds, where Liverpool in 6th and Ipswich Town in 11th are separated by almost nothing at all.
Liverpool have not lost. 2 wins and 3 draws from 5 games, 7 goals scored and 4 conceded, a goal difference of 3. Their form reads D, D, W, D, W, and they arrive on a run of 1W.
Ipswich Town have taken the opposite route to the same neighbourhood. 2 wins, 0 draws, 3 defeats, 7 scored and 11 let in. A goal difference of -4. Their last five: W, L, L, W, L. They have not drawn a match. Not one.
Above them the table splits quickly. Man City lead on 15 points at 1, with Arsenal on 12 and Brighton Hove on 10. Brentford and Leeds United both hold 9, ahead of Liverpool only on goal difference. Below Ipswich Town the drop is steeper still.
So the question is not who is better. It is who blinks first. A single defeat for Liverpool and a single win for Ipswich Town in the same round would leave them level, and the goal difference that currently separates them is 3 against -4 — a swing of seven goals across five matches.
At the top of the scoring list, Erling Haaland has 5 for Man City, Alexander Isak has 4 for Liverpool, and Bukayo Saka, Marcus Tavernier and João Pedro are all on 3.
The league returns on Saturday 10 October, when Arsenal host Leeds United. Before that, the last completed round produced 1-1 between Fulham and Man United on Sunday 20 September.