- Liverpool took their goal tally for the season up to 121 on Saturday
- They need to score only 18 more goals to create a new club record
- They are scoring at a rate of 2.47 per game and have at least six left to play
Jurgen Klopp is closing in on making Liverpool history after the 3-0 defeat of Bournemouth on Saturday took their total of goals scored to 121 this season.
Only three times have the Reds scored more across an entire campaign, and if the Reds can keep up their current strike rate they are set to break the record.
They are just 17 short of matching Kenny Dalglish’s haul in 1986 and still have at least six, and potentially seven games, left to play in this campaign.
Jurgen Klopp applauds the Anfield crowd after Liverpool’s 3-0 defeat of Bournemouth
Mohamed Salah is only the third Liverpool player to score 40 goals in a single season
Having found the back of the net 121 times in just 49 matches their ratio of 2.47 goals per game gives them more than a chance of creating history.
Klopp’s side already have a higher strike rate than the three seasons above them – the treble winners of 2001, Bob Paisley’s 1982 side and Kenny Dalglish’s 1986 vintage.
Gerard Houllier’s side scored 127 times in 2001 at an average of 2.02 per game, while Paisley and Dalglish led the Reds to 129 and 138 at 2.08 and 2.19 per game respectively.
This would not be the first scoring record Liverpool have broken under Klopp this season. They are already the top English goalscorers in Champions League history, with 33 goals in 10 matches this season.
The Reds have scored 121 already this season and need 18 more for a new club record
Roberto Firmino’s 25 strikes have helped Liverpool score at a rate of 2.47 per game this season
And with Premier League fixtures against West Brom, Stoke, Chelsea and Brighton still to come, as well as two legs against Roma in Europe, Klopp is on the cusp of more history.
The Reds have scored three or more goals 16 times in the league this season, with Mohamed Salah becoming just the third Liverpool player ever to reach 40.
Roberto Firmino scored his 25th of the campaign at Anfield at the weekend, and Sadio Mane took his tally up to 17.
The Reds still have at least six games to play in the Premier League and Champions League
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