In any normal season, Liverpool would already be having visions of open-top bus parades and wild celebrations in front of Anfield’s Kop End. After all, the club has never started a Premier League campaign quite so brilliantly. Through 17 games, Liverpool is the last undefeated team in English soccer. Its trio of marauders up front seems to score goals at will. And, for the first time in recent memory, the club has remembered how to prevent them as well—on average it only concedes one every three-and-a-half hours.

Source: Wall Street Journal December 21, 2018 10:01 UTC