Defeat Makes No Sense Liverpool

Liverpool suffered an unreasonable defeat after being defeated by Watford 0-3 in the 28th week of the English League at Vicarage Road, Saturday (29/2) local time.

Liverpool welcome this fight with the top status of the Premier League standings. Jurgen Klopp's squad comfortably tops the standings with 79 points.

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Liverpool are 22 points ahead of Manchester City, who finished second. The Reds are also unbeaten in 27 matches with 26 wins and one draw.

While Watford closed to 18 steps in the standings. The hosts are in the relegation zone and their position is only better than Norwich City who occupy the position of caretaker.

In addition, the quality of the players possessed by both teams is also somewhat in contrast. Liverpool is inhabited by many world-class players, while Watford is only armed with a few players who are worthy of playing in the top teams.

Liverpool have Alisson Becker, Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah, to Roberto Firmino. In the stronghold of Watford, only Abdoulaye Doucoure, Ismaila Sarr, and Gerard Deulofeu were included in the category of top players.

However, all the advantages possessed by Liverpool did not trace at Vicarage Road. Despite winning ball possession with 71 percent versus 29 percent, the port city team actually performed poorly.

In the first half, Salah et al did not even succeed in firing the right shot towards Ben Foster's goal. In the second half, the appearance of the visitors did not improve until finally Alisson conceded three goals.

Data from ESPN, Liverpool only made seven attempts and only one shot was on target. In fact, Mane and Firmino could not do much and did not make any goal chances in this match.

Instead Watford made 14 chances and five led to the Liverpool goal that was escorted by Alisson.

Liverpool's poor performance led to three second-half goals created by Sarr (two goals) and Watford team captain Troy Deeney. Three goals he finally made

This negative result makes Liverpool failed to match the unbeaten record in a season that has been carved by Arsenal in the 2003/2004 season. Opta also noted that Liverpool had only played 44 matches without defeat in the Premier League.

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