Liverpool clocked their biggest-ever Premier League victory with a 7-0 win at Crystal Palace, with it the second time they’ve scored seven because the league’s inception.
The Premier League was fashioned in 1992, and the Reds are one of many solely member golf equipment to have taken half in each top-flight marketing campaign over the previous 28 years.
Final season introduced Liverpool’s first-ever Premier League title, and this time round Jurgen Klopp‘s facet want to comply with that up for his or her first consecutive titles since 1984.
A 7-0 win over Palace cemented the Reds’ place on the high of the desk over Christmas, and in doing so broke the membership’s document for the largest win within the historical past of the highest flight.
The triumph surpassed that of the one different recreation during which Liverpool have scored seven because the present high flight started, with seven video games seeing six hit the again of the online.
So what are the others? Listed here are the Reds’ 10 greatest wins of the Premier League period.
A glut of 5-0s
There is no such thing as a established Tenth-biggest win in Liverpool’s record, with quite a lot of 5-0 victories over time not permitting for distinction within the high 10.
The Reds have put Swindon (1993), West Brom (2004) and Tottenham (2013) to the sword for a 5-0 win away from dwelling, and the likes of Norwich (2013), Swansea (2017), Watford (2018 and 2019) and Huddersfield (2019) to the identical tune at Anfield.
Crystal Palace 1-6 Liverpool – Aug 20, 1994
Palace are the one facet to position twice within the 9 greatest wins of Liverpool’s time within the Premier League, with the Reds’ 6-1 win at Selhurst in 1994 taking ninth spot.
Jan Molby and Robbie Fowler each scored one and Ian Rush and Steve McManaman netted braces to kick off the 1994/95 marketing campaign underneath Roy Evans, with Chris Armstrong firing the one objective for a Palace facet that included Gareth Southgate, Chris Coleman and Ray Wilkins.
“Simply when all people thought that Graeme Souness had sucked the lifeblood of confidence and continuity from this once-great staff, the Liverpool of previous rose from the grave,” wrote the Guardian‘s Martin Thorpe after the sport.
Aston Villa 0-6 Liverpool – Feb 14, 2016
The Reds arrived at Villa Park on Valentine’s Day and had been handled to a six-course banquet by an abject Villa facet, in a recreation that noticed Kolo Toure rating his solely objective for the membership.
Daniel Sturridge, James Milner, Emre Can, Divock Origi and Nathaniel Clyne had been additionally on the scoresheet, with Origi getting a peck on the lips from an excessively enthusiastic fan for his troubles.
Liverpool 6-0 Derby – Sep 1, 2007
Sheffield United might break the document this season, however Derby’s haul of 11 factors for the 2007/08 marketing campaign nonetheless stands because the lowest any facet has managed in a three-points-per-game season within the Premier League.
Liverpool helped Billy Davies on his solution to an early sacking with a six-goal thrashing at Anfield in September, with Xabi Alonso and Fernando Torres each scoring twice and Ryan Babel and Andriy Vorinin additionally beating goalkeeper Steve Bywater.
The win lifted the Reds as much as first within the Premier League for the primary time since 2002/03.
Ipswich 0-6 Liverpool – Feb 9, 2002
Ipswich had been additionally on the receiving finish of the 6-0 hiding by Liverpool in 2002, as Abel Xavier loved a debut to recollect by scoring on his Reds bow to kick off an enormous victory.
Emily Heskey and Michael Owen netted two every, with Sami Hyypia additionally marking the rout with considered one of his personal.
Liverpool 6-0 Man Metropolis – Oct 28, 1995
Again in 1995, Metropolis had been removed from the superpower they’re immediately, and a 6-0 win for Liverpool was nearly routine after they beat Alan Ball’s facet 4-0 within the Coca Cola Cup days earlier.
Doubles had been scored by Rush and Fowler, with Jamie Redknapp and Neil Ruddock firing too for Evans’ Reds.
West Brom 0-6 Liverpool – Apr 4, 2003
A recreation outlined by a four-goal haul from Owen that lifted him above the century mark within the Premier League, Houllier’s facet dismantled West Brom with ease on the finish of the 2002/03 season.
Milan Baros netted two himself, however the focus was rightly on an elite Owen after the sport.
Newcastle 0-6 Liverpool – Apr 27, 2013
Brendan Rodgers’ Reds placed on a goalscoring clinic in direction of the top of 2012/13 – the Ulsterman’s first season with the membership – with Jordan Henderson excelling in midfield.
The longer term captain scored twice, as did Sturridge, with Daniel Agger and the lesser-spotted Fabio Borini finishing the scoring, within the first recreation Liverpool would play throughout Luis Suarez’s 10-match ban for biting Branislav Ivanovic.
Liverpool 7-1 Southampton – Jan 16, 1999
The one different time Liverpool have scored seven within the Premier League came visiting 20 years earlier than the subsequent, as Southampton had been pummelled at Anfield in 1999.
Fowler’s hat-trick headlined a triumphant win that noticed each goalscorer come from the membership’s academy, as Owen, Dominic Matteo, Jamie Carragher and David Thompson would additionally rating.
Like Owen 4 years later, Fowler’s haul took him above the 100-goal mark within the high flight.
Crystal Palace 0-7 Liverpool – Dec 19, 2020
Liverpool’s 7-0 win at Selhurst Park isn’t solely the membership’s biggest-ever Premier League victory, however it’s also Palace’s worst-ever dwelling defeat.
It was a efficiency of actual majesty from Klopp’s facet, with 5 totally different goalscorers and 7 totally different assist-makers, and regardless of sloppy moments within the first half, each participant shone.
Whereas it could take years for Liverpool to enhance on this end result, the best way they’re going underneath Klopp suggests it may properly be ahead of anticipated.