On a blustery evening at Anfield, having gone through the painful experience of a weekend without football, it was a chance for the Reds to equal, and break many records. And of course this would be one of the easiest wins of the season, surely, against Moyes’ mediocrity? It turned out to be anything but, or at least felt that way until Mané got the winner. But do the underlying stats tell us anything different? And when the final whistle went Liverpool had equalled our own record for consecutive home wins, moved back 22 points clear at the top of the league and even hit the remarkable 110 points from our last 114. The greatest streak of sustained performance in the history of club football.

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