Jurgen Klopp has warned Manchester City that ‘nobody gets rid’ of Liverpool in this season’s title race.
Sunday’s 4-2 win over Burnley ensured that the Reds kept the pressure on the defending Premier League champions by maintaining their one-point margin.
The hosts fell behind to an early Ashley Westwood goal but rallied to a victory which equalled records set by two of Anfield’s previous title-winning sides.
Like the current crop, Liverpool also garnered 73 points from their opening 30 league games in their triumphant seasons of both 1904/05 and 1987/88.
With eight games remaining, Klopp stood defiant in the face of recent criticisms.
He said: “We scored five goals two weeks ago [against Watford] and then we didn’t score v Everton and everyone asks me about more offensive line-ups!
“Next time we don’t score, I think you will ask me again. We have no problem with confidence. We didn’t have a problem after the Everton game.
“For me, Mo Salah was the best player on the pitch today and he didn’t score.
“I am not sure you will see that in a lot of ratings, because he’s a striker and he didn’t score, but we have no problem with confidence.
“We are in a good moment. We need all the players and to have them fit on the pitch. We have little injury problems.
“Milly [James Milner] was not able to be involved, Dejan [Lovren] was not planned to be, so just do the job and that is what the boys did all the time.
“We have only to make sure that we stay in the really interesting competition on top of the table.
“The message from today is that nobody gets rid of us, if we play as we play today.
“We had the perfect mixture of fighting the opponent, fighting the circumstances and playing football. That was really good and I liked it.”