Liverpool v Wolverhampton Wanderers, 12 May 2019

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Final league position 2018-19: 2nd Liverpool would have been champions of the Premier League for the first time had Manchester City failed to win their final game of the season at Brighton and Hove Albion (won 4-1). The Reds became the first team ever to lose only one league game in a season in the top division and fail to win the title. With 97 points, they broke the record for runners-up to finish with most points in any of Europe's top five leagues; previously 96 by Real Madrid in 2009-10 when they finished three points behind Pep Guardiola's Barcelona. Their final points total of 97 would have won the Premier League title in 25 of the 27 seasons in the competition's history. The only totals higher had been by Pep Guardiola's Manchester City (100 in the previous season and 98 in this season). Manchester City and Liverpool accrued a combined total of 195 points in 2018-19; the most accumulated by the top two in a top division season. On a three points for a win basis, the previous record was 185 by Arsenal and Leeds United in League Division One in 1970-71. The last team to be top going into the final day of a top division season and not win the title remained as Liverpool in 1988-89 in League Division One. Sadio Mané and Mohamed Salah (with 22 goals each) shared this season's Golden Boot award for the Premier League's leading scorer along with Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Alisson Becker won this season's Golden Gloves award in the Premier League by keeping 21 clean sheets. Only one goalkeeper had kept more in a season in the division (Petr Cech for Chelsea in 2004-05 with 24). This was now the first time since 1979-80 that Liverpool had remained unbeaten at home in consecutive league seasons. The Reds won 22 home games in all competitions in this season; their most home wins in a season since 2000-01 (22).