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After storming to the top of the table and toppling Manchester United from favouritsim for the championship, Liverpool's title ambition's have taken quite a knock
Firstly they fall to the three-win-jinx and are held goalless at home to Fulham. Then, after topping 400 minutes of shut-out(for only the fourth Premiership season), they suffer their worst ever loss, - their only previous defeat in the Premiership by four goals occurring nine years ago
It was however, little surprise that the defeat occurred at Stamford Bridge. Liverpool have yet to win there in ten Premier League visits and in four of the five past seasons, have suffered their biggest loss away to Chelsea. Only one of Michael Owen's 33 away goals have come against Chelsea and Robbie Fowler never managed success in seven trips.After unsurprisingly jettisoning Westervald, the team is currently sporting a net gain in transfer fees. Speculation has them finding a replacement for Fowler but as a comprehensive article suggests they may not be looking in that direction. PremierSoccerStats ranking suggests that creativity may be their biggest problem area. No one player has more than three open-play assists this season (Manchester United have eight by comparison) and unless Redknapp or Litmanen is given an extended run their reliance on dead-ball goals, where they lead the league with ten in spite of posting a less than stellar 25 goals overall, may prove their undoing
One consolation. In a couple of Manchester United's title-winning seasons, they suffered 0-5 reverses.
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Arsenal 2–4 Charlton Athletic Arsenal allow four goals at home for the first time since their inaugural game in the Premiership. Neither Liverpool nor Manchester United have ever conceded as many at home over this period, but Arsenal retain the longest run, home and away, at 237 matches
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Bolton Wanderers 2–2 Everton A tale of two goalkeepers. On-loan Kevin Poole gets his first Premiership game in almost four and a half years, whilst
Steve Simonsen starts a game
for the first time, after being the only player with more than 100 bench appearances not to have done so.
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Chelsea 2–1 Ipswich Town A familiar story for Ipswich as they endure a 10 match winless run for the fourth time in their five Premier League seasons. Only Coventry, with five in nine campaigns, can rival them
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Leeds United 2–1 Tottenham Hotspur Predictably, Seth Johnson started his Leeds career with a yellow card. No doubt as league leader with 14 in 1999/00, he will rival team-mate Dacourt who has picked up 13 in each of his two full seasons in the league
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Leicester City 1–0 Sunderland Not the first Premiership scoring drought for Akinbiyi who finally scored after fourteen games. He did not find the net in fifteen appearances for Norwich during the mid-90's
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Liverpool 3–1 Manchester United With 20 goals conceded in only 11 games, United have close to the worst goal against record this season (Leicester 23/12),
and by some way their most mediocre defensive start to the season More...
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Middlesbrough 5–1 Derby County Only the third occasion on which a premiership team has scored at least five goals without hittng the back of the net before half-time. Manchester United have performed the feat twice, against Spurs earlier this season and Wimbledon four years ago
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Newcastle United 3–0 Aston Villa The enforced absence of Robert Lee obviously did him some good. His assists
were the first for 42 games and the only time in his Premiership career that he has managed a hat-trick of them
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Southampton 1–2 Blackburn Rovers The Saints problems at their new ground have been well publicized but their five-game winless streak has been topped in two
previous campaigns including a seven run skid which left them, temporarily, three points adrift at the foot of the table in March 1997
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West Ham United 0–2 Fulham The Hammers fail to become the first team to notch four succesive victories this season. Of the seven clubs with a three-win
run, only Liverpool are currently on course for triumph number four
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