Records That liverpool Are About Break
Liverpool are not only on the brink of ending their 30-year wait for a 19th league title, but they’re on course to do it in the most emphatic way possible.
The Reds did equal one record in their 3-2 win over West Ham on Monday as they made it 18 wins in a row to draw level with Man City’s previous best from 2017.
The runaway leaders are currently on 79 points after 26 wins and a draw from 27 games, which is seven more than Manchester City’s all-conquering ‘Centurions’ had earned at this stage of the 2017/2018 campaign. If Liverpool win all their remaining games they’ll finish on 112!
Liverpool are also a mammoth 22 points clear of the defending champions, who can now reach a maximum of 90 from their 11 remaining games, so the Reds just need another 12 to seal the title.
It’s just 11/4 now with Sky Bet that they can go through the entire season unbeaten.
Should the Reds smash – or emulate – a whole host of other records in their sights then it’ll be a fascinating debate as to where Jurgen Klopp’s men rank among the Premier League’s most dominant ever sides, including Manchester United’s treble winners, Arsenal’s ‘Invincibles’, the aforementioned ‘Centurions’ – as well as City’s so-called ‘Fourmidables’ of last season – or even Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea sides from 2004-2006.
The fact this is all coinciding with their arch-rivals’ worst season for 30 years – when Liverpool last won the league – is just footballing poetry, and if the trends of the two clubs continue in this vein for the foreseeable future then it may not be too long before Liverpool surpass United’s all-time leading haul of 20 titles.
Potential Premier League records & title dates
Liverpool won’t be able to break all of these but they could smash a number of them and equal some others…
- Earliest title-winning date: 14 April (Man Utd, 2000/01)
- Record games remaining: Five games (Man Utd 2000/01, Man City 2017/18)
- Biggest title-winning margin: 19 points (Man City, 2017/18) – CURRENT: 22
- Most points: 100 (Man City, 2017/18) – CURRENT: 79 (Most possible: 112)
- Most wins: 32 (Man City, 2017/18) – CURRENT: 26 (Most possible: 37)
- Most home wins: 18 (Chelsea, 2005/06; Man Utd, 2010/11; Man City, 2011/12 & 2018/19) – CURRENT: 14 (Most possible: 19)
- Most away wins: 16 (Man City, 2017/18) – CURRENT: 13 (Most possible: 18)
- Most goals: 106 (Man City, 2017/18) – CURRENT: 64
- Most home goals: 68 (Chelsea 2009/10) – CURRENT: 38
- Most away goals: 48 (Liverpool, 2013/14) – CURRENT: 26
- Biggest positive goal difference: 79 (Man City, 2017/18) – CURRENT: 47
- Most consecutive wins: 18 (Man City Aug-Dec 2017) – CURRENT: 18
- Quickest side to score 100 goals in a Premier League season: 35 games (Manchester City 2017/18)
- Fewest Premier League defeats in a season: 0 (Arsenal 2003/04) – CURRENT: 0
- Fewest home defeats in a season: 0 (Man U x3, Arsenal x3, Chelsea x5, Liverpool x3, Man City x1, Spurs x1) – CURRENT – 0
- Fewest away defeats in a season: 0 (Arsenal 2001/02, 2003/04) – CURRENT: 0
- Longest unbeaten Premier League run overall: 49 (Arsenal 7th May 2003 to 24th October 2004) – CURRENT: 44
- Most consecutive home games undefeated: 86 (Chelsea 20th March 2004 to 5th October 2008) – CURRENT: 55 since April 2017, can’t break it this season
- Most consecutive away games undefeated: 27 (Arsenal 5th April 2003 to 25th September 2004) – CURRENT: 21 since January 3rd 2019