Liverpool on brink of title Leicester and Ipswich prepare for drop

LONDON - Liverpool can wrap up a record-equalling 20th English title on Sunday when Leicester City and Ipswich Town are both likely to have their relegation from the Premier League confirmed.

After several nail-biting Premier League title races that went down to the wire, Arne Slots Liverpool have turned this one into a procession as rivals fell by the wayside.

Despite trailing champions Manchester City and Arsenal early in the campaign, Liverpool have been top for all but one week since Sept. 28 and three points at 19th-placed Leicester could see them join Manchester United as Englands most-crowned club.

For that to happen, second-placed Arsenal would also have to lose away to third-from-bottom Ipswich.

But whatever the outcome of this weekends games, Slot looks certain to become only the fifth manager to win the Premier League in his debut season in English football -- the others being Jose Mourinho (Chelsea),Carlo Ancelotti (Chelsea),Manuel Pellegrini (Manchester City) and Antonio Conte (Chelsea).

While Liverpools second Premier League title in six seasons has looked inevitable, so has Leicesters return to the Championship after a woeful campaign.

Leicester snapped an eight-game losing run in the league to draw at Brighton last week but are 17 points behind 17th-placed West Ham United with six games remaining and anything other than a shock win over Liverpool will put them down alongside bottom club Southampton who visit West Ham on Saturday.

Ipswich, who are 14 points behind West Ham, may hope that Arsenal are still celebrating beating Real Madrid to reach the Champions League semi-finals when they host Mikel Artetas team at Portman Road on Sunday.

The Suffolk club have at least shown some fight this season but defeat by Arsenal, along with wins for West Ham United and Wolverhampton Wanderers, would mean that for the