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Liverpool's lead at the top of the Premier League will only look and feel insurmountable until the moment somebody starts to chip away at it. As such, this felt like another very big afternoon at Anfield.

This was the day when Liverpool's remarkable run of Premier League results should have struck a little bump in the road.

Liverpool's 31st league victory of a remarkable calendar year came with some help from football's most controversial modern companion – the VAR system – and due to a hat-trick of golden Wolves chances spurned in the closing stages of what became quite a breathless game.