Twenty-year-old Conor Bradley scored his first goal for Liverpool and claimed two assists as Jurgen Klopp's team moved five points clear at the top of the Premier League table with a 4-1 thrashing of Chelsea on Wednesday.

Liverpool, unbeaten at Anfield this season in all competitions, have 51 points after 22 games. Manchester City, who have a game in hand, are second and level on points with third-placed Arsenal on 46. Chelsea are 10th with 31.

Liverpool, whose victory was their 200th under Kloppwho announced last week that he will leave at the end of the season, played with great intensity from the opening whistle and Chelsea struggled to get out of their own half.

Darwin Nunez peppered Chelsea's goal with seven shots in the first half, but it was Diogo Jota who broke the deadlock in the 23rd minute when he bundled past two Chelsea defenders to score.

Bradley whipped the Anfield fans into a frenzy in the 39th minute when he hammered an angled shot into the far corner after a surging run.

The youngster from Northern Ireland left a defender in his wake in the 65th minute before launching a pinpoint cross that Dominik Szoboszlai leapt to head past Djordje Petrovic.

Christopher Nkunku pulled one back in the 71st but Liverpool's Luis Diaz replied eight minutes later.

Liverpool had 27 shots to Chelsea's four, with 12 on target, many of them by Nunez who also hit the post with a first-half penalty.

The Uruguayan became the first player since 2003-04 to hit the woodwork four times in a Premier League match.

Chelsea had two penalty appeals turned down after VAR checks, the first when Virgil van Dijk brought down Conor Gallagher and the second when the Dutch defender appeared to kick Nkunku.