Arne Slot's team are currently top of the Premier League standings with 21 points from their first eight top-flight fixtures. Liverpool are one point ahead of second-placed Manchester City - who meet Southampton on Saturday afternoon - and have four more than Arsenal in third.
Liverpool claimed a 2-1 win over Chelsea in their previous Premier League fixture, before then going on to beat RB Leipzig in the Champions League. Arsenal lost to Bournemouth in the top-flight last week, a game that saw William Saliba shown a red card - meaning that will miss the showdown against the Reds through suspension.
Both Liverpool and Arsenal are dealing with injury concerns, and Neville has explained why the Reds will pose a tough test for the Gunners on their home ground. "Liverpool are in really good form, they've got a strong defence, they've got players up front who can win any match, in a moment, and they've got a midfield who are so willing it's untrue, so it's not going to be easy [for Arsenal]," said Neville on The Overlap US.
Neville was then asked to provide a score prediction before going on to tip Liverpool to fall to a 2-1 defeat. Reds legend Jamie Carragher quizzed Neville about the prediction with the one-time Manchester United captain citing "instinct" as his reason for that call.
"I'm going to go Arsenal 2-1 because I don't see Liverpool going seven points clear of them," he responded when asked for a prediction. "My instinct is I don't see on Sunday night the league table saying Liverpool 24 points and Arsenal 17 [points], that's my instinct.
"In my experience of when I've seen these games in the past and I'm going not just off my instinct today, I think sometimes when you have these games and you go; 'Manchester United can go seven points clear of Arsenal in 1998', it doesn't tend to happen.
"There's a motivation of the team that are desperately not wanting to go seven points behind. It gives them that edge that the team that are four points in front don't quite have at this time of the year."
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