After eight Premier League victories in a row, Liverpool FC need six more to guarantee their 19th league title. Can it be done?
Liverpool supporters on the Spion Kop before the Premier League match against Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield. (Pic by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)
Only once in the history of the top-flight English football has a team won 14 league games in a row. This was the Arsenal side of 2002 who did so, but spanned the end of the 2001/02 and beginning of the 2002/03 campaigns.
No side, in Premier League or Football League top-flight has won 14 in a row in one campaign.
Liverpool are on eight, an impressive feat in itself, with six remaining; West Ham, Norwich and Crystal Palace away; Manchester City, Chelsea and Newcastle at home.
Victory in those six would mean history in more ways one than; no side has ever gone from seventh to first the following Premier League campaign. It would be unprecedented.
Up to now, Liverpool’s longest Premier League winning run is 10 in a row; which occurred between 29 October 2005 and 31 December 2005, and included eight consecutive cleansheets.
That season, 2005/06 ended with 12 victories in a row (in all competitions, and including the FA Cup Final victory on penalties).
The best finish to a season was in 1981/82 when The Reds ended with 13 victories in their last 16 league games, including 11 in a row, winning the title in the process.
Can Brendan Rodgers side do the unprecedented and win their six remaining fixtures to make it 14 in a row?
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