From Old Trafford to the Etihad Stadium, we look at five victories achieved by Liverpool in 2024-25 that felt like significant stops on the road to their 20th top-flight title.
Liverpool are the 2024-25 Premier League champions.
Here, we look at arguably their five most important wins on their way to a record-equalling 20th English top-flight title.
Manchester United 0-3 Liverpool – 1 September 2024
While a win against Manchester United might not come with the kudos and raised eyebrows it used to, especially as this was one of 15 suffered by the Red Devils in their 34 Premier League games this season, it felt significant at the time.
Liverpool had seen their 2023-24 campaign hopes severely dented by two trips to Old Trafford, first losing 4-3 after extra time in the FA Cup quarter-finals, before a 2-2 draw saw them fall further off the pace in the Premier League title race.
For Arne Slot to have to visit the home of Liverpool’s old rivals in just his third game was a big deal, especially with people doubting whether a relatively inexperienced coach from the Eredivisie could step into Jürgen Klopp’s significant shoes. They had beaten Ipswich Town and Bournemouth in their first two games, but this was a far bigger obstacle on paper.
Liverpool took United apart, even affording the luxury of seeing a Trent Alexander-Arnold goal ruled out by the VAR for offside.
Two first-half goals from Luis Díaz and a Mohamed Salah strike in the second saw Liverpool ease to a 3-0 win to make it three victories in as many games for Slot, and still yet to concede a goal.
Slot became the first Liverpool manager to win his first meeting with Manchester United since Bob Paisley in November 1975, and just the second to do so away from home after George Kay in November 1936.
He also became just the third manager to win each of his first three Premier League games without conceding, after José Mourinho in 2004 and Sven-Göran Eriksson in 2007.
Salah’s goal was his 10th in nine appearances at Old Trafford for Liverpool in all competitions. He is only the second player to score 10+ goals at a single away ground for Premier League clubs since 1992-93, after Alan Shearer (10 at Elland Road).
Liverpool were up and running and looked like they would take some stopping.
Granted, they lost 1-0 at home to Nottingham Forest in their next game, but after that…
Liverpool 2-0 Manchester City – 1 December 2024
Liverpool and Manchester City have regularly fought over titles in recent years, with their titanic clashes some of the most entertaining in Premier League history.
Going into this match, City were already eight points off the pace Liverpool had set, but nothing is for certain when Pep Guardiola brings his team to town.
However, the Reds’ superiority in the table was also evident on the pitch at Anfield as for the first time in a long time, Liverpool sauntered past Man City in a 2-0 win that, if anything, flattered the visitors.
The hosts had 18 shots to City’s eight, with a mighty 3.57 expected goals to 0.84.
Salah was at the centre of things again, setting up Cody Gakpo for the opener, before firing in a late penalty to seal things and send Liverpool nine points clear at the top of the Premier League; their biggest margin as leaders in the competition since the final day of the 2019-20 campaign, when they last won the title.
The game also felt like a significant exclamation point on Man City’s poor start to the season as it was a fourth consecutive Premier League defeat, the first time they had suffered such a run in the competition since August 2008. It was also the first time in Guardiola’s managerial career that he had lost four consecutive league matches.
With it already looking like City wouldn’t be a part of the title race, the possibilities opened up before Christmas, but there was another big performance to come before anyone opened their presents.
Tottenham Hotspur 3-6 Liverpool – 22 December 2024
As with Old Trafford, Liverpool didn’t have great recent memories of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium following their previous visit, losing 2-1 last season to a last-minute own goal, but that only told half the story.
Klopp’s side had also been reduced to nine men after Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota had been sent off, while Díaz saw a goal wrongly chalked off for offside despite the VAR thinking he had told the referee that the goal was good.
As with their trip to Manchester a few months earlier, though, Liverpool set about expelling those demons in style in north London. They led 3-1 at half-time, and raced into a 5-1 lead just after the hour.
A late burst from Spurs made the score look slightly more respectable before Díaz rounded things off with his second of the game and Liverpool’s sixth in an astonishing attacking performance.
In total, Liverpool collated an xG of 5.63, the most for any team in a Premier League match this season.
As usual, Salah had been central to things, with two goals and two assists. It meant he had double figures for both goals and assists already, making it the sixth Premier League season in which Salah had both scored and assisted 10+ goals (2017-18, 2019-20, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25); the most of any player in the competition’s history (overtaking Wayne Rooney’s five).
It was also the seventh league game Salah had both scored and assisted in this season, the joint-most by a player in a single campaign in the competition (also Alan Shearer in 1994-95, Thierry Henry in 2002-03, Robin van Persie in 2011-12, and Bruno Fernandes and Harry Kane in 2020-21), and it was only the 16th game of the 2024-25 season.
Liverpool were top of the league on Christmas Day for the 21st time, the most of any side. They’ve now gone on to win the title in 12 of those seasons.
Brentford 0-2 Liverpool – 18 January 2025
A win against Brentford might not seem like one of the biggest moments in a title winners’ season, but this Saturday in mid-January could have gone very differently.
Liverpool had dropped points in back-to-back draws with Manchester United and Nottingham Forest heading into this game, and entering second-half stoppage time, were still being held by the Bees after a goalless 90 minutes.
With Arsenal playing at home to Aston Villa later that evening, two more dropped points followed by a Gunners win would have seen Liverpool’s lead at the top cut to just two points, though with the Reds still having a game in hand.
Darwin Núñez hasn’t had the greatest season on Merseyside, with just five goals in 26 Premier League appearances, but the Gtech Community Stadium became his for two crucial minutes. The Uruguayan emerged from the bench to fire his team ahead in the 91st minute, before adding another to seal it in the 93rd.
As if that wasn’t enough, Liverpool then watched as Arsenal lost a 2-0 lead to only draw 2-2 with Villa, meaning they ended the day with a six-point lead.
It would have been difficult for anyone to suggest Slot’s men didn’t deserve the three points, though. They had 37 shots in total, the most any team has managed in a Premier League game this season. To rub salt into their rivals’ wounds, Núñez’s two goals came from their 36th and 37th shots.
It was also Liverpool’s joint most in a Premier League game on record (since 2003-04), also recording 37 against Everton in April 2016.
The win took Liverpool to 50 points from their first 21 league games of the campaign (W15 D5 L1). Only in 2019-20 (18 games) and 2018-19 (19 games) have they reached 50+ points in fewer games in a Premier League season.
Manchester City 0-2 Liverpool – 23 February 2025
By this point, Man City were well out of the title race, a whopping 17 points behind Liverpool, albeit with a game in hand, but the Etihad Stadium has rarely been a profitable place for the Reds.
Having not won there in the Premier League since 2015, it felt like a potential banana skin and one that Arsenal in particular were hoping would cause the start of a downturn in form if the Reds came unstuck.
However, a disciplined and professional performance saw Liverpool come away with another victory. It wasn’t as comfortable as the 2-0 win at Anfield in the reverse fixture, but it was at least equally as impressive.
Liverpool had just 33.9% possession in the game, their lowest in a Premier League victory on record (since 2003-04). They took their chances when they came, though, with Salah and Dominik Szoboszlai both scoring in the first half, while a determined defensive display saw the three points secured in the second.
The visitors kept City to just 0.65 xG, their lowest xG in a Premier League home game since February 2021 (0.46 xG vs West Ham).
It was the first time Liverpool had done the league double over City since Klopp’s first season in 2015-16, and left others struggling to see where enough points could be dropped in the final 11 games to allow anyone else hope in the title race.
The win sent Liverpool 11 points clear of Arsenal at the top of the Premier League, the largest their lead had been in the campaign up to that point. Most seemed to agree that it wasn’t just the points gap that meant Liverpool would almost certainly be Premier League champions; it was the unparalleled quality they had shown in getting there.
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