Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool Complete Full Calendar Year Unbeaten In EPL
Unbeaten Premier League leaders Liverpool made it a full year without losing in the top flight and it is surely now only a matter of time before we start speculating about when, rather than if, Liverpool win the Premier League.
Liverpool’s victory over Sheffield United means they have a place in history as one of a select group of teams to have gone a year unbeaten in the Premier League.
“It’s obviously good [to go unbeaten for a year] but the target was not to extend this [run], but to win the game. ” said Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp in a post-match interview.
The Reds have played 37 games without defeat – picking up 101 points in that time – since losing 2-1 to last season’s eventual champions Manchester City on 3 January 2019.
At Anfield these days, they sing about their team being kings of the world, a pointer to the recently acquired Club World Cup. It may not be too long before they are singing about something else entirely.
Jurgen Klopp’s side are the third Premier League team to manage a year without losing. Arsenal – whose 49 games included the entire 2003-04 season – and Chelsea (from October 2004 to November 2005) are the others.
Liverpool now seek glory on the domestic front which has eluded them for close to 3 decades despite being the first English side to hold the Champions League, Uefa Super Cup and Fifa Club World Cup simultaneously.
By Gerald Dandah
