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Ian Doyle

Liverpool have already been warned about trap Bournemouth may be setting them

Jurgen Klopp knows a freak when he sees one. And Liverpool have encountered several already this season.

If last Sunday's record-breaking 7-0 win over Manchester United was regarded as such by the Reds boss, it was a similar story for the visit of Bournemouth back in August when his side equalled the highest win in Premier League history with a 9-0 triumph.

Klopp, though, believes that should act as a warning for Liverpool when they play the return fixture on the South Coast in Saturday's lunchtime kick-off, saying earlier this week: "If I would be now in the Bournemouth dressing room I would make sure that everyone remembers that and that's the thing we have to change."

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The Liverpool manager is right to be cautious given what has happened after some of the club's most memorable league results in recent memory.

Arguably the most infamous example of this came in the 1989/90 season when Crystal Palace were smashed 9-0 at Anfield early in the campaign. The Reds won the return league match 2-0, but weeks later lost the FA Cup semi-final 4-3 against Londoners to halt hopes of a double.

Two seasons previous, Liverpool thumped Nottingham Forest 5-0 in what is still regarded one of the best performances in the club's history. Yes, the next game against Forest the following term was a 4-1 win in the much-forgotten Mercantile Credit Centenary Trophy but in the real stuff in the league, the Reds lost 2-1.

It was a similar story when Liverpool defeated Southampton 7-1 in 1999, when the next league meeting between the teams saw the Saints win 2-1. And in the 1982/83 season, after the Reds romped to a memorable 5-0 derby win at Everton, they then were held to a goalless draw in the return game.

Of course, there are plenty of examples of the Reds backing up an impressive win with another against the same opponents - they scored 10 without reply inside four days against Manchester City in 1995 - but Klopp will rightly ensure his players are on their guard having inflicted such an embarrassment on Bournemouth earlier in the campaign.

Indeed, as well as the incentive of - at least temporarily - moving into the top four for the first time this season with victory at the Vitality Stadium, the Reds are chasing an unusual landmark.

A victory of two goals will equal their biggest aggregate margin of top-flight victory over the same opposition in the same season. The last time the Reds managed it was in 2001/02, when the won 6-0 at Ipswich Town before defeating the Tractor Boys 5-0 at Anfield on the final day of the campaign.

The overall record came way back in 1896 when Liverpool, then in the second division, followed a 5-0 win at Rotherham with a 10-1 home triumph against the Yorkshire side.

Klopp, though, will be happy with just a single-goal triumph on the South Coast this afternoon. He knows rock-bottom Bournemouth will want a freak win of their own.

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