English FA Premiership Tottenham 0 Liverpool 0: As part of the England team that lost in Northern Ireland and the Liverpool side that beat Milan in Istanbul, Jamie Carragher will be acutely aware that nothing is impossible.
The defender is also a realist, though. In already ruling out the title going to Anfield he was not being defeatist but honest.
A deserved draw at Tottenham is a decent result but Liverpool's display far from screamed champions. A solitary goal in three league games - from a set piece against Sunderland - shows one weakness and, with Steven Gerrard subdued and Xabi Alonso given 21 minutes, Liverpool were more mechanical than classy.
Carragher is confident the team will do "a lot better" in the Premiership than last season but said: "I think it's difficult for us to win the league because you look at the start Chelsea have made already and the signings they made. The thing we are looking to achieve is to (reduce) that gap. Everyone calls it a top three at the moment plus the rest. We want to call it a top four or get into the top three."
Liverpool's failure to sign a right midfielder or centre-back has left Rafa Benitez with a weaker squad than he wanted and the pairing of Peter Crouch and Djibril Cisse needs work. They linked dangerously only once for a shot well saved from Cisse who looked more likely to create than score.
Service from John Arne Riise and Luis Garcia was poor and Benitez seems reluctant to trust Alonso away from home in a four-man midfield. Solidity is a priority and Liverpool will savour a second straight league clean sheet on their travels - already one more than last season.
After an uneasy start Liverpool conceded few chances. Carragher impressed and his admission that it will be "difficult" to retain the European Cup was as sensible as his analysis of the club's title chances: "It will be a long process because we haven't got the finances that Manchester United and Chelsea have."
Liverpool had the better of the second half, with Riise smacking a shot against the bar, after Spurs dominated the first. Tottenham's Jermaine Jenas, Lee Young-pyo and Grzegorz Rasiak made ordinary debuts, though Rasiak hit the woodwork and, like Crouch, saw a goal disallowed. Martin Jol may ask Lee to be progressive from left-back with Edgar Davids tucked in from left midfield.
Goals are not flowing for Spurs. Jermain Defoe too often has to work to make chances for himself and, for all the tidy passing promised by a midfield of Davids, Jenas and Michael Carrick, none instinctively gets into the box. The biggest plus was the solid return of Ledley King.
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