Liverpool striker Luis Suárez set a Premier League record during his side’s 4-0 thrashing of Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield today.

The Uruguayan international became the first player to score 29 goals in a single 38-game Premier League season without taking a penalty.

The Reds’ 4-0 victory sends Liverpool top of the league with half a dozen games to play. The last time Liverpool were at the top with this few games to play was back in 2002 under Gérard Houllier.

Luis Suárez has achieved this feat despite missing the first five games of the season through suspension.

There are 6 games remaining of Liverpool’s Premier League season in which Suárez is one goal away from becoming only the seventh player in the 22nd year of the rebranded top flight, after Andrew Cole, Alan Shearer (x3), Thierry Henry, Kevin Phillips, Cristiano Ronaldo and Robin van Persie.

Andrew Cole’s 34 goals for Newcastle United achieved in 1993-94 was matched by Blackburn Rovers’ Alan Shearer the following season – these remain the joint-highest scorers in a single season, both set when the Premier League had 22 teams and played 42 games.

Alan Shearer (Blackburn Rovers) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) have both scored 31 in a 38-game season.

Daniel Sturridge did not get amongst the goalscorers today but the England forward remains the second top scorer in the Premier League with 20 goals – 3 more than Yaya Touré who is next on the list.

No club has ever had the top two leading goalscorers in the Premier League.

Liverpool have now scored 88 goals this season. With half a dozen games remaining they are 15 goals behind Chelsea’s record of 103 in a single season set in 2009-10.