A losing streak of one league game was ended by Jurgen Klopp’s players, albeit not as confidently as the manner in which they have dispatched so many opponents at a stadium where they have now won 22 straight league games – an English top-flight record. In fact, in the last minute of regulation time, Nathan Ake might have equalised, a goal that would not have changed the title race much, other than to add to an unexpected sense of Anfield anxiety.
Ake did not do so, and Liverpool held on for a win that puts them within three victories of that title. They can secure it with wins over Everton at Goodison Park, at home to Crystal Palace and then at the home of Manchester City. Failing that, there are six further games to get those nine points.
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