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Liverpool set club record as unbeaten league run hits 32 matches

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The league leaders are showing no signs of slipping up.

Liverpool restored their hefty advantage atop the Premier League table with an entertaining 5-2 win in Wednesday's Merseyside derby against Everton.

Sadio Mane sparkled, setting up two goals and scoring one of his own, as the Reds established a new club record by pushing their league unbeaten run to 32 matches.

Jurgen Klopp's men sit eight points up on second-placed Leicester City, with reigning champions Manchester City a further three points adrift. The Reds have taken 43 of a possible 45 points on the season thus far and are now unbeaten in 48 Premier League home games.

They've also lost just once in the last 26 league derbies. Everton's most recent league victory at Anfield came in 1999.

Wednesday's emphatic defeat dropped the Toffees into the relegation zone, with under-fire manager Marco Silva's position becoming increasingly tenuous amid a horrid run of results. The Portuguese gaffer has guided the club to just two wins in the last 11 Premier League fixtures.

Even with Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah being rested, Everton had no answer for Mane, who could have finished with a hat-trick had he not spurned a couple of gilt-edged chances in the second half.

In the end, it didn't matter.

Divock Origi scored a lovely brace, while Xherdan Shaqiri and Georginio Wijnaldum also found the net to give Klopp his 100th Premier League win in only his 159th match in England's top flight.

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