In his latest excellent weekly column, Liverpool fan and statistician Andrew Beasley (@BassTunedToRed) highlights the good and bad of Liverpool's 2-0 win over Fulham.

Liverpool got back on track after their woeful defeat in Belgrade by defeating Fulham 2-0 at Anfield on Sunday.

While the score line was flipped from the loss to Red Star Belgrade, the games had one thing in common – the side that lost had their only clear-cut chance with the score at 0-0.

Where Daniel Sturridge blazed over in Serbia, Ryan Sessegnon put the ball wide at the Kop end. With Fulham’s defensive record Liverpool may still have won, but the match could have turned out very differently.

A question for you all: what do the goals from this match have in common with the following selection? The trio against Southampton, the first three in the win over Red Star, and Sadio Mane’s first goal against Cardiff?

You wouldn’t be wrong if you said they were all scored at Anfield. It would be fair to note they were all netted in matches Liverpool would expect to win too.

But probably the most noteworthy aspect of these nine goals is that they were scored during the 204 minutes which Liverpool have had the quartet of Roberto Firmino, Mane Mohamed Salah and Xherdan Shaqiri on the pitch together.

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The new Fab Four, anyone? Any realistic comparisons to the Reds’ key foursome from the first half of last season will have to wait a while longer yet.

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However, Liverpool scored every 32 minutes that Philippe Coutinho and co spent together, but they have found the net every 23 minutes with their present premier attacking quartet.

Three of the aforementioned four matches, including the game with Fulham, share something else: at least one assist from a full-back.

The duo of Andy Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold are becoming key attacking outlets for the Reds. As most of Liverpool’s midfielders aren’t creating enough chances, the input from the defenders is proving vital.

As chance would have it, by each setting up a goal on Sunday afternoon, both Alexander-Arnold and Robertson equalled their assist tallies for the whole of 2017/18. With five, the latter is Liverpool’s top goal creator so far this season.

Add Virgil van Dijk’s assist for Firmino against PSG to Alexander-Arnold’s pair this season, and Liverpool’s defence account for 42 per cent of the team’s 19 official assists in 2018/19.

Robertson’s contribution against Fulham wasn’t purely attacking either. He also topped the charts for interceptions, with three, and ball recoveries, with 11. The latter is notable as Leicester’s Wilfred Ndidi – who made 12 – was the only player to make more in the Premier League this weekend.

As Liverpool had 73 per cent possession while the Foxes had 63 per cent against Burnley, the Reds’ Scottish full-back could easily argue he had the better numbers.

While the full-backs each created two chances against Fulham, one Liverpool player set up five opportunities for his teammates, including one clear-cut chance. Step forward, Roberto Firmino.

The Brazilian hasn’t been at his brilliant best lately, but having created a nap hand of chances for the first time in the league for 13 months, could he have sown the seeds of an upturn in form?

Whether that comes to pass or not, Bernardo Silva was the only player who created more chances in the Premier League this weekend, and Firmino has only set up more once in the league in his Liverpool career.

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The Reds head into the final international break of 2018 having made their best start to a Premier League season. In fact, they’ve only taken more points from any run of 12 league games 32 times in the past 26 years.

As there have been 1,001 such runs in the Premier League, you get a sense of how the current team’s form has rarely been matched in the modern era, at any time of any season.

By defeating Fulham, Liverpool maintained their record of beating every team they’ve faced in 2018/19 who aren’t in the big six.

This will be immediately put to the test after the break when they travel to Watford, who have the sixth best home record in the division.

It won’t be easy, but with Tottenham facing Chelsea on the same day, the Reds will have a chance to put some further space between themselves and at least one of those sides.