Liverpool's Premier League records: Jurgen Klopp talks down points and wins record after Brighton victory

With four games left, Liverpool need nine points to break Man City's 100-point record from two seasons ago, while three wins will also see them top City's record of 32 in a season - also set in that remarkable 2017/18 campaign.

The new Premier League champions were made to work hard again though in their 3-1 win at the Amex, with a Mo Salah double and a Jordan Henderson goal earning their 30th win of the campaign to take them to 92 points.

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Liverpool are already the earliest champions in history in terms of games remaining, and the latest in terms of the calendar, but Klopp insists he is not looking at making further entries in the record books just yet.

The Reds are also home wins against Burnley and Chelsea away from winning every home game this season - which would be the first time a top-flight team had achieved a 100 percent record since 1892.

Liverpool's remaining fixtures

• Sat July 11: Burnley (H)
• Weds July 15: Arsenal (A)
• Sat July 18: Chelsea (H)
• Sun July 26: Newcastle United (A)

"What can I say? When I think about the next four opponents and think we will get 12, 10, or whatever points, I can't do that," said Klopp.

"How could I assume we could get all these points? When I think about 92 points, I think how could we get 97 last year (finishing second), it's unbelievable.

"First and foremost you have to fight for the three points.

"That's what we did tonight and I like that a lot because that's the mother and the father of each win that you really work hard for it, and the boys did that again, that's great."

A major downside to the victory at Brighton was the knee injury picked up by skipper Henderson - who limped off late on.

Klopp isn't sure how bad the problem is, saying: "I don't know, honestly. I didn't see the situation back on the pitch but I know that it will not be nothing, probably.

"That's how it is but we have to wait, I cannot say more."

Liverpool's Premier League records & title stats

• Liverpool have won the 2019-20 Premier League, their first title since the competition began in 1992-93. It is their 19th top-flight crown in all and their first since 1990; only Manchester United (20) have been champions of England more times.
• Liverpool have now been crowned champions of England in eight different decades (the 1900s, 1920s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and the 2020s); this is more than any other club.
• The gap of 30 years between Liverpool’s last title in 1990 and this year is the eighth longest between two top-flight championships by any side in England, and the longest since Manchester City won the 2011-12 Premier League, 44 years after their previous top tier title in 1968.
• Between October 2019 and February 2020, the Reds won 18 consecutive league matches, a joint-record by any club in the English top-flight. Remarkably, this run came after Jürgen Klopp’s side had also embarked upon a 17-match winning streak between March and October 2019, which is also the third-longest such run in the Premier League.
• While their record winning streak was ended by Watford in February, Liverpool ultimately achieved an unbeaten run of 44 Premier League matches from January 2019 to that game in February this year - second only to Arsenal’s 49-game run ending in 2004 in the history of the England’s top division.
• Liverpool broke a record of their own at Anfield; from February 2019 to June 2020, the Reds won all 23 of their home league games, surpassing their own previous top-flight record of 21 home wins in a row set under Bill Shankly in 1972.
• During their 2019-20 season, Liverpool beat all 19 of the other sides in the Premier League, the last of which being West Ham in January; by this stage, the Reds had won 23 of their first 24 Premier League games of the campaign (D1), and had beaten every other side they had faced in a single top-flight season for the very first time in the club’s history.
• While the suspension of the season in March prevented the Reds from breaking the record for earliest date to win the Premier League title, the club still won the league with a record number of games left to spare.
• After Manchester City’s 2-1 loss to Chelsea on June 25th, Liverpool were confirmed as Premier League champions with seven games of their season left to play; this is the most fixtures remaining of any side upon confirming the English top-flight title in history.

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