It’s official. Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool side are the most consistently lethal goal scorers English football has ever seen.
The Reds went into Wednesday night’s Merseyside Derby having racked up a 17 game streak of scoring twice or more in all competitions.
This put them level with the Sunderland side of 1927, meaning if they were able to breach the Everton goal twice at Goodison Park the record would be theirs.
As fate would have it, it was a former Sunderland man who was the last line of defence for The Black Cats’ proud near 100 year record.
But having only kept two Premier League clean sheets all season, the odds were stacked against poor Jordan Pickford.
Fellow Wearsider Jordan Henderson curled in the opener before Mohamed Salah’s sumptuous finish obliterated the record inside 20 minutes.
Salah added another and Diogo Jota slammed in a fourth meaning that alongside their shiny new record, Liverpool have also scored four goals in three Premier League games in a row.
This particular record owes a lot to the form of Salah. The 29-year-old has scored 17 of the Reds 54 goals over the 18 game run, laying on a further six in the process.
But it isn’t just the Egyptian who has been in a rich vein of form in front of goal.
Sadio Mane has rediscovered the touch that deserted him last season and Jota has carried on from where he left off in his debut campaign.
The Reds haven’t always balanced blistering attack with dogged defence, but four clean sheets in the last six suggests the penny might have dropped.
Regardless, with 43 goals in just 14 Premier League games so far, this is unlikely to be the last record Jurgen’s Liverpool juggernaut annihilates this season.
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