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– Liverpool’s exciting 1-0 win over West Ham United on Saturday not only kept them hot on the heels of title rivals Manchester City, but it also saw Virgil van Dijk break a Premier League record that has stood since the 1990s.
– Van Dijk, 30, led the Liverpool defence to help seal the result, and in doing so took his run of unbeaten league matches at Anfield since making his debut for the Reds to 60.
– That’s right: the Netherlands international is yet to lose a single home Premier League game (W52, D8) since completing his £75 million transfer from Southampton in January 2018, surpassing a record set by former Manchester United winger Lee Sharpe a quarter of a century ago.
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– Sharpe managed to go 59 Premier League games (W47, D12) for United after making his competition debut in November 1992 before experiencing his first home defeat. That run spanned four whole seasons before coming to an end in the Red Devils’ first home game of the 1996-97 campaign, a 2-0 defeat against Sheffield Wednesday at Old Trafford. Sharpe actually made his first-team debut for United four years earlier in 1988 while he was still just 17 years old. So, as impressive as his Premier League home record was, you could say he held it on a technicality.
