NOW not even the usual solace of European competition can offer Rafael Benitez refuge from his woes.
A miserable run of form continued with Liverpool’s Champions League hopes taking another significant knock with a dreadful defeat at home to Lyon.
After the failure at Fiorentina, the collapse at Chelsea and the surrender to Sunderland, this was a fourth successive loss for Benitez’s confidence-shot side.
Not since April 1987 have Liverpool registered such a poor run of form. But while the team that season reached a domestic cup final and finished runners-up in the league, such consolations at present seem beyond this vintage.
The boos that thundered around a disbelieving Anfield at the final whistle underlined the frustration that has been growing among the home faithful for some time.
No wonder. Those supporters can see a season that began with great expectations slowly slipping away, and with Manchester United and Arsenal to play in the next week, there appears no imminent respite.
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