Jurgen Klopp’s side have
turned the title race into a procession and the runaway leaders saw off
struggling West Ham to make it a remarkable 23 victories from 24 league games
this season.
Liverpool moved an
incredible 19 points clear at the top of the Premier League as Mohamed Salah
and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain secured a 2-0 win at West Ham on Wednesday.
Salah opened the scoring
with a first half penalty at the London Stadium and Oxlade-Chamberlain wrapped
up Liverpool’s 15th successive league win after the interval.
Second placed Manchester
City are now so far behind Liverpool that the question is not if but when the
Reds clinch their first English league title since 1990.
The Reds have won 31 of their
past 32 league fixtures, only dropping points in a 1-1 draw at Manchester
United in October.
With 14 games left,
Liverpool’s incredible run has given historic overtones to their impending
title coronation.
The European and World
champions are now 41 games unbeaten in the league — just eight away from the
49-match English top-flight record set by Arsenal’s ‘Invincible’ across 2003
and 2004.
Matching that Arsenal
team’s achievement in going an entire league season without defeat is within
Liverpool’s reach, as is Manchester City’s Premier League record of 100 points.
Liverpool’s latest success
on a chilly night in east London will be just a footnote when the full story of
their likely title triumph is written, but they still managed to record another
small piece of history.
They have now beaten all 19
of the other teams in the league at least once this season — the first time the
club have achieved that feat in the top-flight.
Klopp attracted criticism
for announcing he and his first-team players won’t be present for the FA Cup
fourth round replay against Shrewsbury next week as it falls within the Premier
League’s winter break.
Instead, Klopp will send
Liverpool’s youth team to the match, but at this rate they will win the title
so early that his stars will have plenty of time to put their feet up in the
final weeks of the domestic season.
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