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Liverpool's attacking trio on course for record breaking season

Liverpool's attack are on course for a record breaking season.

Between them Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino have scored 73 goals already this season, only four short of the club's highest-scoring forward line EVER for a single campaign.

Already, The Big Three have scored more between them than the fabled SAS front line of 2013-14 — Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge, along with Steven Gerrard, netted 69 times as Brendan Rodgers' Reds came close to winning the league.

And the Mirror reports they have also outscored the trio of forwards who last led Liverpool to the title, in 1990, when Ian Rush, John Barnes and Peter Beardsley got 70.

Now, only the Second Division title-winning side of 1961-62 stand in their way of making history.

Back then, as a Bill Shankly-inspired Liverpool finally returned to the top flight, Roger Hunt, Ian St John and Jimmy Melia plundered 77 goals to lay the foundations for a dynasty.

With a minimum of nine games left in this season, The Big Three will surely eclipse that.

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