After the draw against Arsenal, what does Liverpool need to do to qualify for next year's UCL?

After Liverpool have taken just two points from a possible nine against three of their big six rivals, with a draw against Arsenal their most recent result, manager Jurgen Klopp and his staff know how difficult it will be to get the team into the next edition of the UEFA Champions League with just nine games to go, with the Merseyside outfit needing to be cautious not to slip up on any single result in order to keep their hopes of qualification alive until the final matchday.

With 12 wins, eight draws and nine defeats so far, the Reds have 44 points which puts them eighth in the overall standings, below Aston Brighton, Aston Villa, Tottenham and Manchester United who could all stand in the way of their goal, and even if Klopp's men do not fail in any of their remaining games, they must await the results of their rivals above them, depending entirely on more than one of them going on a run of bad luck.

After the disastrous post-FIFA restart, the Champions League ticket seems to be slipping further and further away from Anfield, with the option of the Europa League being the closest target but also a distant one with a number of rivals also fighting for European competition, with Klopp and his squad facing both Tottenham and Aston Villa, who are 5th and 6th in the table respectively, in the near future.

<strong>Liverpool on the brink of yet another failure of the season</strong>

With the elimination of the Carabao Cup, FA Cup, Champions League and without being able to fight for the Premier League title, the only objective that the red team of Merseyside had was to qualify for the next edition of the Champions League thinking about a new opportunity to return to the elite but now with great reinforcements, This plan is falling apart for the Anfield side as the matchdays go by and the negative results do not even allow them to be among the top five teams in the English league, with Klopp and his team having to play in just nine games to achieve the only objective that does not ruin a terrible footballing year.