Liverpool break club's passing record (969) in the EPL match vs Sheff Utd

Liverpool took their relentless Premier League form to new heights against Sheffield United on Thursday evening, as they played more passes than in any other league game in the club's history.

Jurgen Klopp’s side kept up their title charge with a 2-0 win courtesy of goals from Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane at Anfield.

In doing so, they played 969 passes at an accuracy rate of 90.1 per cent - a club record, but not enough to beat the 1015 played by Manchester City against Swansea in April 2018 .

Liverpool were scarcely troubled by Chris Wilder’s side , finishing the game with 74.8 per cent of the match possession.

The only blow for Klopp was an injury sustained by midfielder Naby Keita in the warm-up. Having been due to start the game, Keita was replaced in the starting XI by James Milner.

Sheffield United’s top passer on the night was defender John Egan, who completed 32 passes.

Of Liverpool’s starters, only Mohamed Salah and goalkeeper Alisson failed to beat this figure with captain Jordan Henderson and all four defenders in Trent Alexander-Arnold, Joe Gomez, Virgil Van Dijk and Andy Robertson each completing more than 100 passes during the game.

Van Dijk boasted the best figure of 134 completed passes, at a 95 per cent success rate.

There were a number of other impressive statistics to take from the game.

Liverpool completed 874 passes against Sheffield United this evening; their most in a Premier League game since Opta have this data recorded (since the 2003-04 season), with only Manchester City managing more in a game in this period (three times).

Virgil van Dijk (134) and Joe Gomez (120) completed more passes combined (254) than the entire Sheffield United team combined (242).