Liverpool legend John Barnes believes the club are now favourites to win the league.

With Manchester City losing three out of their past four league games, they are seven points behind the Reds. Tottenham are six behind in second place.

Many fans believe that if the Reds can come through the next few games with their league in tact, it is theirs to lose. And Barnes agrees they are now favourites.

"I had Man City as favourites until the last two games, but I'd make Liverpool favourites now," he said to BonusCodeBets.co.uk.

"It's not necessarily 'theirs to lose', I just think the Premier League is so difficult now.

"Once upon a time, the top five teams weren't necessarily going to drop points, but these days you can see with Crystal Palace and Leicester beating City, that can actually happen.

"So it's much more difficult now to win the Premier League from a winning position.

"Numerically, it's theirs to lose in terms of numbers they have on the board, but in terms of the difficulty of the competition, it's definitely not finished.

"If they were six points ahead coming into April, then obviously it would be, so for now I make them favourites, but it's not a foregone conclusion."