LONDON (Reuters) - Liverpool's dream run was demolished in the most unlikely fashion by strugglers Watford on Saturday in what must be considered the most extraordinary reverse of the entire Premier League season.
On the evening when the European champions were expected to complete the best sequence in the history of English football's top-flight with a 19th straight league victory, they were instead hammered 3-0 by the team lying one from bottom.
Liverpool's first league defeat in their 28th match this season also meant the end of a 44-game unbeaten streak stretching back to January 2019, as well as killing off their dreams of going an entire English top-flight campaign without a loss like Arsenal and Preston North End before them. Liverpool's captain Virgil van Dijk told Sky Sports the defeat was"unacceptable", adding:"If you concede three goals, obviously we have to improve as a team. We will."
"I don't want my left-back top of the scoring charts. I want our attackers scoring goals and they haven't," said Lampard, after watching Alonso head home five minutes from time to ensure Chelsea avoided a second defeat in five days following their humbling Champions League home loss to Bayern Munich.
At West Ham, a few thousand Hammers' fans marched before the game, protesting about the club's owners, but their mood was lightened as Jarrod Bowen, the 22 million-pound January signing, marked his full debut with a fine goal.
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