Liverpool can't break the Premier League points record now. They've now lost three games, which is two more than they lost last year in coming second and three more than the Arsenal champions of 2003/2004.
That's correct - they aren't going to break any of the possible records available to then when the season resumed that I set out in reply 87.
I think it has been a challenge to keep the motivation going to keep winning once the title was in the bag simply to achieve some 'on paper' records - also Klopp has, not unreasonably, played some young player who wouldn't normally get a look in. I don't think playing behind closed doors has helped either - I suspect the full throated Kopp last weekend might have pushed them past Burnley.
And perhaps the dip in results is, in part, linked to one of the records they have broken - namely winning the title with 7 games to go (the previous record being 5 games, going back 130 years). They were so far ahead when the season restarted (with 9 games to go) that realistically the players were probably more focussed on a break and next season (once the title was in the bag, which was inevitable).
And actually that leads on to one final potential record they could break - the biggest winning margin to second place, which currently 19pts - they'd need to get better results than Man City in the final 2 games to achieve this though, which I think is unlikely as Man City's final two games are Watford and Norwich. As a Watford fan (and childhood Liverpool fan) I can but hope!! Through gritted teeth I'm be cheering on Everton against Villa tonight
