IN beating Michel Vorm with a powerful right-footed effort, Philippe Coutinho became the 18th player to find the back of the net during Liverpool FC’s current campaign.
Such a feat has only been achieved once before in Liverpool history – when 18 different players scored for Gerard Houllier’s side in the 1999-2000 season.
And so here is a run-down of this year’s goal-getters.
Leading scorer Luis Suarez and captain Steven Gerrard have contributed the bulk of the overall tally so far with 31 goals between them.
Since joining the club at the start of the January transfer window, Daniel Sturridge has added 5 goals to the Reds’ total.
Shortly after Sturridge walked through the doors at Melwood, Nuri Sahin and Joe Cole departed in the opposite direction. However, prior to doing so, the pair notched goals for the Reds during the first half of the season.
Jordan Henderson scored goals against Udinese, Norwich and Arsenal while Raheem Sterling has struck against Reading and Sunderland at Anfield.
On a whirlwind night in Switzerland, debutant Andre Wisdom powered home his only Liverpool goal to date and Sebastian Coates sent a looping header past Marco Wolfli as Young Boys were beaten 5-3.
Two of Jonjo Shelvey’s 5 goals this season also came in the same game.
Fabio Borini struck against Gomel and Joe Allen volleyed home what proved to be a consolation at Oldham in the shock FA Cup defeat.
Two long-range efforts from Glen Johnson saw him add his name to the list of goalscorers and Stewart Downing has even got in on the act, notching 3 goals in all competitions this season (that’s 3 more than the whole of last season).
Martin Skrtel, Jose Enrique and Daniel Agger have all scored twice – and with new-boy Coutinho included, that takes our tally to 18 different players.
Perhaps all that really remains now is a goal from Jamie Carragher to set a fresh record and give the Liverpool legend a perfect send-off as he prepares to hang up his boots in the summer.
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