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Kieran King

Dismal Liverpool suffer crushing top four blow in defeat at Brentford - 5 talking points

Brentford ended Liverpool's four-game Premier League winning run with a ruthless 3-1 victory at the Brentford Community Stadium on Monday.

Jurgen Klopp's side started the brighter of the two sides and almost opened the scoring through Darwin Nunez, but the Uruguayan was denied on the line by Ben Mee after going round David Raya. Brentford grew into the game and began to cause Liverpool issues at every possible chance, especially from set pieces.

And the Bees capitalised on some slack defending when they took the lead as Ibrahima Konate put through his own net. Thomas Frank's men dominated the remainder of the first-half and doubled their advantage just before the break through Yoane Wissa, who calmly finished beyond a hapless Alisson.

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