Liverpool had a flying start to the Premier League campaign, they won the first five fixtures.
But the main talking point was their late goals, was it sustainable?
In the first four of those games, they scored the winning goals 75 minutes onwards. Their victory against Everton was the only fixture that didn’t follow the pattern.
It looked as if the late winners would continue as they came from behind for the first time in the campaign against Crystal Palace with an 87th minute goal. They were then dealt with a hammer 97th minute winner from Nketiah.
The following week they conceded and lost in the 95th minute to Chelsea.
They trailed against Manchester United before equalising, and conceded late on to Maguire in which was their third league defeat in succession.
The table below shows that they have been involved in 12 late goals, Brighton are the closest with nine.
LGS – Number of games a team has scored in the last 15 minutes (75+)
LGC – Number of games a team has conceded in the last 15 minutes (75+)
Liverpool are yet to lose a game that they have led in, but are susceptible to scoring and conceding late on.
Historically Liverpool lead the way for the most last minute winners in Premier League history with 47.
This season they’ve scored more late goals than they’ve conceded, but a few of them have been consolation goals.
The question of sustainability has been answered as a result of recent results, if you leave it late you run the risk of losing.
Last season Brighton were top of goals scored and conceded late on with 26 in total, Liverpool were close behind with 24.
The Reds are third in the league table, having been as low as seventh, and will want to build on recent form, this will be a hard task with a tough schedule ahead.
They follow-up recent wins over Aston Villa and Real Madrid in the Champions League by going to the Etihad where Manchester City have conceded no late goals so far.
