Arsenal hero Nigel Winterburn says he was always confident Liverpool wouldn't match their Invincibles record.
Back in the 2003-04 campaign, Arsene Wenger's side went the entire 49 game Premier League season without tasting defeat as they won the title with 90 points.
Speaking to Gambling.com, Winterburn said: "It's incredibly hard to do. The Arsenal team I was a part of in 1991 won the league by losing just one game.
"People talk about how fabulous this Liverpool team are – and they are, they've just walked away with the league – but it just goes to show you how difficult it is to maintain that level of intensity and focus for 38 games.
"It's almost impossible at Premier League level. I say almost because Arsenal have actually achieved it, but I think how well Liverpool and Manchester City have performed over the past two to three seasons without going unbeaten just puts Arsenal's achievement into an even greater perspective.
"I was always confident, from an Arsenal point of view, that Liverpool would lose a game, mainly because they were so far ahead in the league.
"Even if they had gone unbeaten all the way up to clinching the title, I still think they would have switched off. With so long to go, I would have been confident that they would have been beaten in one of the remaining games.
"When you mathematically secure a title, for some reason, no matter how the manager talks to you and no matter how professional you want to be, you realise that everything you worked for to win the league has been achieved, and it just makes you drop your guard a little for the rest of the season.
"We saw it with Liverpool themselves when they went to Manchester City and got thumped 4-0 by another fabulous team.
"I did get a little twitchy earlier in the season when they looked unstoppable, but I was quietly confident they'd slip up somewhere along the lines."
