Liverpool’s 2021/22 season was a dream, and whereas ending in disappointment it was a marketing campaign that noticed Jurgen Klopp‘s males set an unbelievable benchmark for themselves and others.
The Reds loved an exhilarating season, including two trophies to the cupboard and coming agonisingly shut to a different two.
With a most 63 video games performed in 2021/22, Liverpool left no stone unturned searching for a historic season and alongside the best way supplied followers with moments and recollections to cherish.
This squad proceed to create the historical past they at all times longed for and there may be nonetheless loads of chapters of their ebook to jot down, and the newest chapter was a powerful one.
Listed below are 17 data this unbelievable Liverpool aspect broke this season, as a collective and as people.
– Earlier than the 2021/22 season, no English workforce had ever reached the ultimate of the European Cup, FA Cup, and League Cup Closing in the identical season.
– It made for the longest quadruple hunt by an English membership, with Liverpool’s bid solely ending on Might 22.
– Liverpool’s tally of 148 targets in all competitions (63 video games) is essentially the most they’ve ever managed in a single marketing campaign in membership historical past.
– Klopp’s aspect ended the Premier League with their greatest ever lead over Everton, with 53 factors. The Reds ended the marketing campaign with 92 factors, and the Toffees 39.
– Liverpool reached their seventh European closing within the twenty first century, which means the Reds are the English workforce with essentially the most continental finals in that point.
– Mohamed Salah turned the primary participant to attain on the opening day of the Premier League for 5 seasons in a row.
Watford (2017/18), West Ham (2018/19), Norwich (2019/20), Leeds (2020/21) and Norwich (2021/22).
– A tally of 46 victories in a single season set a brand new membership document, with the earlier greatest return 43 in 2019/20.
– Sadio Mane surpassed Didier Drogba to turn out to be the highest-scoring African within the knockout levels of the Champions League with 15 targets.
– Liverpool are solely the second aspect within the league’s historical past to see three gamers rating 15 or extra targets in a single season, after Man City in 2013/14: Mo Salah (23), Sadio Mane (16), Diogo Jota (15).
– Virgil van Dijk has by no means been on a shedding aspect of a league sport at Anfield for 64 video games, essentially the most for a single membership of any participant in Premier League historical past.
– Liverpool’s League Cup triumph took their trophy tally within the competitors to 9, essentially the most of every other membership.
– The Reds notched their 2,000th top-flight towards Newcastle in December, making them the primary English workforce ever to succeed in that landmark, which got here of their 4,227th match (1,047 attracts and 1,180 defeats).
– A brand new membership document of discovering the online in 34 successive video games in all competitions was set, beating the earlier excessive of 31 from April 1957 to January 1958.
– The Reds scored not less than twice for 18 matches in a row in throughout all competitions from September to December.
The primary English workforce to attain that feat having surpassed Sunderland‘s document of 17 set in 1927.
– Salah moved forward of Steven Gerrard because the membership’s all-time main goalscorer within the Champions League, with 34.
– The primary English membership to win ALL six Champions League group video games. They turn out to be the eighth workforce to attain the feat in complete.
– Liverpool recorded the outright longest unbeaten run underneath Klopp and the longest total since Roy Evans was on the helm again in March 1996.
This got here due to an unbeaten run of 25 video games from Aston Villa in April to Atletico Madrid in November.
This workforce is one thing else, regularly setting new benchmarks with the starvation for extra.
