Liverpool are just a matter of weeks away from becoming Premier League champions.

With a 2-0 victory over West Ham United on Wednesday night, they moved a mind-boggling 19 points clear of Manchester City and ensured they'd beaten all 19 of their rivals this season.

That's pretty astonishing and reason enough for us to consider the title race a closed case.

So, now that we can just accept that Jurgen Klopp will be lifting the Premier League trophy in May, it's all about hypothesising which pieces of history Liverpool can pick up along the way.

First and foremost, the Reds are closing in on Arsenal's 'Invincible' record and are now just eight matches away having gone 41 consecutive fixtures without defeat.

Liverpool chasing history

You have to rewind to January 3, 2019, for their last Premier League loss and all the way back to April 23, 2017, for the last time they failed to pick up points at Anfield.

Remarkably, they could match the golden 49 games by avoiding defeat at the Etihad Stadium in April and then truly join Arsenal in the history books by finishing the whole season unbeaten.

Along the way, Liverpool can topple the points tallies of the Premier League champions that came before them - and they've already started.

More wins than the treble-winners

It might only be January, but Liverpool have already picked up more leagues wins this season than Manchester United did in the entirety of their 1998-99 campaign. Seriously.

In actual fact, that 1999 victory was one of United's worst ever title-winning campaigns and they only collected three points on 22 occasions, whereas Liverpool already have 23 times.

The same can be said of United's triumph in 1996/97 - the lowest points tally to ever win the league - where they won just 21 games, which the Reds overtook with their win at Molineux.

So, even if Liverpool absolutely implode and lose their remaining 14 fixtures... they'll still have given their fans the taste of victory more often than Sir Alex Ferguson's legendary side.

In terms of total points, they need only nine more to surpass the treble-winners outright and could even match them for trophies considering the FA Cup and Champions League are still winnable.

GIVEMESPORT's Kobe Tong says

So, are Liverpool's current team better than United's 1999 side? In terms of the Premier League, yes. Overall? No.

If we're taking the league in isolation, then the Red Devils were actually better the following year - they won 12 more points, for starters - but that's not why the treble-winners are revered, anyway.

What makes them so special was their unerring ability to traverse competitions and I simply can't see Liverpool following in their footsteps with Champions League and FA Cup glory. 

Bizarrely, retaining their European title seems the more realistic of the two considering Klopp has shown a blatant disregard for domestic cup competitions and could feasibly lose to Shrewsbury Town.

For that reason, while Liverpool are on course to become the Premier League's greatest ever team, they won't ever hold a candle to the treble winners unless, well, they can treble up.