AND so it proved a false dawn. The midweek defeat of the second string at Arsenal aside, last Sunday’s domineering performance and victory over Manchester United was supposed to be the watershed moment in Liverpool’s season.
However on Halloween the Liverpool team played the biggest trick on their supporters so far, by leading them to believe the malaise was over.
Instead something spooked the Liverpool players into one of the worst displays of the campaign to date and which ever way you look at it, manager Rafael Benitez continues to be haunted by the frailties of his squad.
Regardless of the list of absentees, Fulham should not be beating the Anfield side in the manner they did on Saturday at Craven Cottage and yes, the scoreline was given gloss by the sending off of Philipp Degen and Jamie Carragher which was undeserved, but Benitez’s men were desperately poor.
To highlight the extent of the mire Liverpool find themselves in, with title dreams strewn on the floor and Champions League qualification hanging by a thread, was that Fulham equalled their biggest ever victory over Liverpool on the banks of the river Thames.
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