This is that season: Liverpool easily beat their biggest rival, and interesting data appeared after the match

This is definitely that season - Liverpool players trample everything in front of them in the Premier League, they have no mercy towards their opponents, and today in the 23rd round they defeated their biggest rival - Manchester United.

It was 2:0 for Klopp's team, the scorers were Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah. After today's match, the Reds have 64 points - 16 more than second-placed Manchester City and 19 more than Leicester. The current European champion has a game less, and Salah and company will play that match against West Ham on January 29.

After today's match with the "red devils", the statisticians extracted some data related to the current European champion. Here are some of them:

Liverpool tied 31 matches without defeat in the Premier League. They lost their last game in this competition last season - on January 2019, 30 - against Manchester City. Since then, they have run away with 20 wins and one draw. That draw was a duel with Manchester United this season, in the ninth round, on October 1. The duel ended 1:XNUMX.

As we have already said, Liverpool played one less match this season in the Premier League. So, 22 times the "Reds" ran onto the field and scored at least a goal in each match. Only Arsenal and the champion generation in the 2001/2002 season managed to do that. Then Arsene Wenger's team shook the net in every round. Liverpool still have 16 matches to equal that record.

In today's match with Manchester United, the "Reds" goalkeeper Alison assisted Salah in the second goal. The Brazilian became the first Liverpool goalkeeper, after Pepe Reina, to register an assist in this competition. The Spanish goalkeeper assisted Torres in a match with Sunderland in 2010.

Mohamed Salah finally scored against Manchester United. Since arriving at Liverpool in 2017, Salah has failed to find the back of the net for United - until tonight. The Egyptian thus scored a goal against 23 of the 24 teams he played against in the Premier League. He was the only one not to score against Swansea.

Right back Trent Alexander-Arnold assisted Van Dijk on Liverpool's leading goal today. It is the Englishman's ninth assist in the Premier League this season, but his fifth from stoppage time. No one in the "top five" has more assists from the break this season than Liverpool's boy. Since the start of last season, he has 21 assists, the most in the Premier League.

And since January 2018, no defender in the Premier League has scored more goals than Virgil van Dijk. The Dutchman then arrived in Liverpool from Southampton and to date has scored eight times in this competition.

We are still with Liverpool's defense - today they registered their seventh tied match without conceding a goal. The last time the "Reds" net was idle was seven tied games in the Premier League in 2006.

Liverpool has yet to lose in the Premier League this season. The team still has 16 games to go. We all remember the 2003/2004 season when the famous generation of Arsenal, the so-called "invincible" won the title without losing a match. Then Wenger's team had 26 wins and 12 draws and won 90 points. Liverpool this season has 21 triumphs, one draw and 64 points. Until the end, there are still 16 matches and 48 points in circulation for the current ruler of the Old Continent. Klopp's company seems unstoppable and maybe in May we will talk about another generation of "invincibles" in the Premier League.