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Liverpool Set To End The Season With A Trophy

Liverpool Set To End The Season With A Trophy

It might not be the silverware they want but Jurgen Klopp and his Liverpool players will once again be handed a trophy by the Premier League

Ryan Sidle

Ryan Sidle

After winning the Premier League and Champions League in the past two years, Liverpool are set to pick up yet another trophy this season, although the Fair Play award probably isn't what they had in mind...

It's been a tough season for Liverpool this season, as they struggled to defend their first league title in 30 years with a litany of injuries and a falling off of their form.

At one point it looked like Jurgen Klopp's side would miss out on the top four and next season's Champions League but Alisson's incredible last minute winner last weekend has turned things round.

To add to that expected top four finish, the Reds are actually set to receive a trophy at the end of their league campaign as the cleanest club.

Liverpool have only picked up 38 yellow cards this season and not a single red card. That puts them well behind, or ahead depending how you look at it, of second place Burnley, who have 47 yellows and also no reds.

A rare scene this season, and for the past five seasons. Image: PA Images
A rare scene this season, and for the past five seasons. Image: PA Images

Klopp's side would have to have one hell of an aberration on the final day of the season in order for them to miss out on the fair play award.

The game against Crystal Palace, which is likely to confirm their great achievement of a top four finish, would have to be abandoned due to Liverpool's red cards in order for Burnley to take the award from them.

It will be the fifth time in-a-row that Klopp's side have actually won the award in the Premier League, and the ninth time the club have won it since the start of the Premier League, a record.

Along with the Reds, Burnley and Leicester are the only two other teams in the league who have so far not had any players sent off, although the Foxes are in joint seventh in the table having had 57 yellows, with only five sides having more.

The league table isn't the only one that Sheffield United sit at the bottom of, with the Blades 70 yellows and three reds making them the dirtiest team.

Brighton lead the way on red cards though, with Graham Potters' side picking up an incredible six of them, one more than Mikel Arteta's Arsenal.

It's not the trophy Liverpool would have wanted this season but a trophy is a trophy!

Featured Image Credit: PA

Topics: Liverpool, Football, Premier League, Jurgen Klopp

Ryan is a writer for SPORTbible. He covers all sport from football, formula one, cricket, rugby, tennis, athletics, mma and wrestling. He obviously hates YOUR football team and has no interest in synchronised swimming.

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