Liverpool had been unbeaten in their last 29 Premier League matches at Anfield before their disappointing 2022/23 season hit a new, miserable low courtesy of a last-minute defeat to struggling Leeds United on Saturday.
When you consider it was also actually their first Premier League defeat in front of their own fans since April 23, 2017 when Christian Benteke came back to haunt his former employers by netting a brace for Sam Allardyce’s Crystal Palace, then the feeling of leaving Anfield after suffering a loss feels even worse. It might be rare on this occasion, but you fear it might not be in the weeks and months ahead if recent evidence is anything to go by.
Suffering a second defeat to a team in the relegation places, at kick-off at least, in the space of a week, it was an unexpected and unwanted setback after Jurgen Klopp ’s side had seemingly bounced back from their defeat to Nottingham Forest by winning away in Ajax in midweek.
