3️⃣ points as Liverpool set stunning record with Leicester victory | OneFootball

Liverpool hit a ridiculous new height at Anfield on Sunday night when they ruthlessly disposed of Leicester City to move level at the top.

Despite missing six key first team players, a Jonny Evans own goal and strikes from Diogo Jota and Roberto Firmino secured a Reds win.

This is what we made of it.

Fortress Anfield

Whether fans are there or not, nobody beats Liverpool at home under Jürgen Klopp anymore.

Teams turn up in the league and are all sent packing without three points – or at least they have for 64 straight games now.

That is a new club record and is truly stunning, stretching all the way back to April 2017 when former player Christian Benteke came back to haunt them.

To give you an idea of how long ago that was, Nathaniel Clyne and Lucas Leiva were still in the Reds team and Despacito was still a week away from topping the charts.

Of those 64 games since then, Liverpool have won 53 of them and looked utterly unstoppable.

When will it end?

Virgil van Dijk. Thiago. Trent-Alexander Arnold. Jordan Henderson. Mo Salah. Joe Gomez.

That isn’t just a list of some of the best players in the Premier League, it is also the players Liverpool were missing for this one due to injury or illness.

The fact they still overcame that adversity to beat an excellent Leicester City side says so much about both their character and quality.

But they now have another concern on that front, after Naby Keïta exited early in the second half with a hamstring problem.

It is unclear yet how serious the issue is but you can’t help but wonder how many mirrors were smashed at Melwood when they moved out.

We love technology

Regular readers of OneFootball will know that we have our problems with VAR.

But if there is one bit of technology we love and which has made a subtle yet important difference to the game, it is the goal-line technology system.

There are still some issues, such as the farcical situation in the summer when Sheffield United were denied a legitimate goal against Aston Villa due to a tech blunder.

But it has mostly been excellent and that was never more perfectly emphasised than late on when Roberto Firmino was correctly denied by Hawkeye.

No official in the world would have been able to spot that one!

Ridiculous margins.