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Liverpool could break Manchester United’s unbeaten record in the Premier League

Sudarshan Venkatesan
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Liverpool could break Manchester City’s unbeaten record in the Premier League. 

Since the turn of the new year, Liverpool have been producing inconsistent displays which sees them sit second in the league table. With eight games to go, the Reds will be aiming to win all their matches to keep in touch with Manchester City and hope to end their title drought.

Pep Guardiola’s men might be leading the table, but Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp could break another record if they stay intact against Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield after the International break. The Reds will equal Manchester City’s unbeaten run of 37 and will break Manchester United’s run of 36 games.

Jurgen Klopp will escape from losing for the 37th straight time in the Premier League at Anfield if they draw or win against Mauricio Pochettino’s side on April 2nd. Chelsea are the first in the list and they are levels above every team in the list.

Under the management of Jose Mourinho and Avram Grant, the Blues were undefeated for 87 consecutive games which is the record highest for a longest home unbeaten run in the Premier League.

If Liverpool maintain their current defensive record, there is every chance that the club would surpass the records held by the Manchester sides. The Reds have conceded just 17 goals from 30 games this season which is the least by a Premier League side this campaign.

Since the arrival of Virgil Van Dijk, they have become a top-notch defensive side with excellent organization. The addition of Alisson Becker in the summer transfer window has taken them to the next level and compete with Manchester City for the Premier League title.

Jurgen Klopp was ecstatic with the performance of Liverpool and he adds on that nobody should get rid of the Reds in their pursuit of their Premier League.

“It was a good game. A difficult game but a good game. We all know it is always difficult against Burnley for different reasons – and today there were a few more circumstances together that made it even more difficult. One of them was the early goal we conceded; usually it would have been disallowed if Andre [Marriner] has a better view of it, I don’t know exactly.”

“I saw in the first moment it was a foul and now I have seen pictures you cannot treat the goalie like this, it should not happen, but they scored. The good thing was it was early, six minutes, so enough time to react, enough time to turn it around and that’s what we did. We had the ball pretty much all of the time, we created, I think we had 23 shots or something like that versus three, two of which were in.”

Liverpool have been struggling to find the back of the net in recent weeks which has handed much more criticism to the record Premier League top scorer Mohamed Salah who has found the back of the net for the fifth straight game in all competitions.

“Today it was important. We scored two weeks ago five goals and then we didn’t score against Everton and everybody asked me about offensive or more offensive line-ups. I think next time if we don’t score you will ask that again.”

“That’s how it is, of course four goals are very important [but] what has that got to do with the Bayern game? I don’t think it’s easy to score there four. We have no problem with confidence. We did not have problems with confidence after the Everton game.”

“Our message for today is that nobody gets rid of us if we play as we played today, because we had the perfect mixture of fighting the opponent, fighting the circumstances and playing football. That was really good, I liked it.”

Liverpool will be traveling to Munich to face Niko Kovac’s Bayern Munich in the second leg of the Champions League Round of 16 before taking on Fulham in the Premier League on Sunday.

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