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Fewest games required to reach 400 league points as
@LFC
manager:-
JURGEN KLOPP 184
Kenny Dalglish 197
Bob Paisley 206
Rafa Benitez 209
Bill Shankly 229
Last night was Jurgen Klopp's 50th league game against a 'big-6' rival. He has lost 8. Since his appointment Man City have lost 17 of 48, Man Utd 15 of 47, Chelsea 20 of 49, Tottenham 20 of 48 and Arsenal 23 of 48 'big-6' encounters.
In 20 domestic games this season
@LFC
have been issued with 27 yellow cards and one red. 11 of those yellows and the red have been issued in 3 games by Paul Tierney.
@LFC
's third goal tonight was the 400th scored in the league under Jurgen Klopp (his 185th game) - achieved in fewer games than any other
@LFC
manager.
Fastest to 100 league wins as
@LFC
manager:
Jurgen Klopp 159 games
Kenny Dalglish 167
Bob Paisley 179
Rafa Benitez 181
Bill Shankly 184
Gerard Houllier 197
Tom Watson 230
George Kay 262
George Patterson 274
Mo Salah's second goal was
@LFC
's 600th under Jurgen Klopp. Achieved in 288 games - fewer than any other Reds manager. Previous best - Kenny 298 games.
Chris Kamara on 'Goals on Sunday' re: Firmino's 'goal' yesterday...'this has been made up by somebody at Stockley Park who has decided they don't want this to be a goal'...'somebody has decided that and they should be outed because that is not offside'.
Most penalties saved by
@LFC
goalkeepers in a shoot-out:-
5 Pepe Reina (12 penalties faced)
3 Adam Bogdan (5)
3 CAOIMHIN KELLEHER (11)
3 Jerzy Dudek (15)
3 Simon Mignolet (31)
Jurgen Klopp has now won more Premier League games than any other
@LFC
manager - 127 victories in 196 matches, beating Rafa Benitez (126 wins in 228 games).
@LFC
will finish this season, for the first time in their history, with more league points earned away from home than at Anfield. 36 points on the road, can only get a maximum of 33 at home.
Joe Gomez and Fabinho are the 35th different centre back pairing to start a game for
@LFC
under Jurgen Klopp. Gomez and Joel Matip are yet to feature together from the start.
I make it that
@LFC
are only the 7th different team (and the first from Britain, obviously) to hold the European Cup, European Super Cup, World Club title and domestic league title simultaneously following Porto, Ajax, Juventus, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
Tonight saw
@LFC
record their biggest league win at Arsenal since October 1893 when they won 5-0 at the the Manor Ground in the first ever league meeting.
Two more
@LFC
records for Mo Salah, this evening. Most goals in the group stage of a European competition (7) and the first
@LFC
player to score in 5 group games of the same European campaign.
Fastest to 50 goals for
@LFC
:- MO SALAH 65 games, Albert Stubbins 77, Roger Hunt 79, George Allan 81, Jack Parkinson 81, Sam Raybould 81, Fernando Torres 84.
Youngest ever
@LFC
captains:-
Alex Raisbeck - 20 years 250 days (1900),
Steven Gerrard - 22 years 160 days (2002),
PEDRO CHIRIVELLA - 22 years 207 days (2019),
@Carra23
- 22 years 225 days (2000).
Dejan Lovren captains
@LFC
for the second time in his career today. The previous occasion was the Reds 4-3 home win over Manchester City in January 2018.
Oxlade-Chamberlain and Keita today became
@LFC
's 15th & 16th different scorers in the league this season. The club record is 17, set twice - 1911/12 & 2015/16.
Harvey Elliott will become both the youngest
@LFC
player to appear for the club in the F.A. Cup and to appear for the Reds in a Merseyside Derby at the age of 16 years, 276 days.
RIP Ray Kennedy. One of the legendary Liverpool midfielders of any generation. His team mates and opponents knew just how brilliant he was.
He fought a horrible illness for many years with great dignity and resolve.
Truly gutted to hear this news today. 💔
If a player is good enough for Jurgen Klopp then that is good enough for me. That means he is good enough for Liverpool. And therefore good enough for all Reds fans.
Nat Phillips and Joe Gomez start together at the heart of the
@LFC
defence for the second time - the first was the F.A. Cup win over Everton back in January.
Referee for
@LFC
v Barcelona is Cuneyt Cakir (Turkey). He has taken charge of
@LFC
twice before....home wins over Borussia Dortmund (4-3) in 2016 Europa League and Paris St Germain (3-2) this season.
Ki-Jana Hoever (17 years 250 days) is the 4th youngest known
@LFC
scorer in history after Ben Woodburn, Michael Owen and Jordan Rossiter and the 3rd youngest ever for the club in the League Cup.
Today saw
@LFC
win a 27th league game of a season. Only once before have they won more in a single campaign. They won 30 in a 42-game season in 1978-79.
A day of personal landmarks for Jurgen Klopp. 200th league game in charge of
@LFC
today, his 100th of those at Anfield and a win will be his 100th at Anfield in all competitions.
Most wins in first 150 league games as
@LFC
manager:- JURGEN KLOPP 92, Kenny Dalglish 87, Gerard Houllier 81, Rafa Benitez 81, Bob Paisley 79, Bill Shankly 77, Roy Evans 72.
Highest percentage of league wins in a top-flight season:-
84.21% - Man City (2017-18 & 2018-19), 81.82% - Preston (1888-89), 80.77% - Sunderland (1891-92), 78.94% - Chelsea (2016-17), Liverpool (2018-19).
Liverpool currently in 2019-20 - 93.10%
This great city has been decimated in recent years by funding cuts.
Since December there's been a real buzz in the city. Why?
Eurovision.
The region was kept alive by EU.
And idiots are shocked by our reaction to the anthem.
Europe is our friend, the UK Establishment our foe.
For those pundits on
@Skysports
(Tim Sherwood) stating that 'Gomez and van Dijk doesn't work'... Including last night in PL started together 34 times - 27 wins, 3 draws, 4 defeats. 79% win ratio. Doesn't work???
@MoSalah
is the 5th player to score 20 or more goals for
@LFC
in 4 or more successive seasons. The others :- Gordon Hodgson 5 seasons - (1930-35), Billy Liddell 4 seasons (1954-1958), Roger Hunt 5 seasons - (1961-1966), Ian Rush 6 seasons (1981-87).
Fastest to 300 league points as
@LFC
manager:- (3 points for a win) - JURGEN KLOPP 146 games, Kenny Dalglish 150, Rafa Benitez 159, Bob Paisley 161, Bill Shankly 166, Gerard Houllier 169.
Most wins as
@LFC
manager after 250 games in charge (all comps):- JURGEN KLOPP 155, Kenny Dalglish 152, Bob Paisley 140, Gerard Houllier 134, Bill Shankly 133, Tom Watson 110, George Kay 100, George Patterson 94.
Mo Salah reaches 20 goals in a season for
@LFC
in the 4th quickest ever time by date (17th December) - only beaten by Ian Rush (8th November 1986), Roger Hunt (25th November 1961) and Hunt again (15th December 1965).
Last night was the first time two
@LFC
centre-backs have scored in the same league game at Anfield since Sept 1968 (Yeats and Smith v Leicester). The only other occasion since then in league - October 2016 (Lovren & Matip at C. Palace).
Most wins as
@LFC
manager in first 200 games -
@kennethdalglish
118, Rafa Benitez 115, Jurgen Klopp 112, Gerard Houllier 109, Bob Paisley 108, Bill Shankly 104.
Since Tottenham beat
@LFC
4-1 at Wembley in October 2017, Spurs have lost 27 out of 89 league games.
@LFC
meanwhile, have been beaten in 4 of their 88.
Today is only the second occasion since Mo Salah arrived in 2017 that
@LFC
have started a league game without Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane. That evening in Dec 2018 won 3-1 at Burnley with Salah and Firmino coming off the bench. Mane was not involved in the squad.
@LFC
have not lost any of their last 7 games in the Premier League when they have finished with 10 men due to a red card. Minutes of those red cards - 82, 89, 77, 77, 57, 58, 28.