Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool Claim Unwanted Record With 1-0 Loss To Chelsea [Watch]

Liverpool FC claimed an unwanted record in the Premier League after they suffered a 1-0 loss at home to Chelsea Thursday.

The 1-0 defeat to Chelsea marked reigning champions Liverpool’s fifth straight loss at Anfield in the 2020-21 Premier League. With that, Jurgen Klopp-managed Liverpool became the first-ever English top-flight winner to lose five home league games in a row, according to Opta Joe.

It was also for the first time in history that Liverpool lost five home league games in a row. Liverpool are now seven games without a win at Anfield, having drawn with West Brom and Manchester United before a streak of losses against Burnley, Brighton, Manchester City, and Everton before Chelsea got the better of them Thursday.

The testimony to Liverpool’s miserable performance against the Stamford Bridge side was the fact that Georginio Wijnaldum's effort in the 85th minute was their first shot on target in the game. The last time the Reds had to wait so long to attempt a shot in a Premier League match was back in 2010 and coincidentally, it was against Chelsea at Anfield. Liverpool had failed to hit the target until the 90th minute in a 2-0 loss to the Blues.

The Reds had finished with 99 points in their title-winning campaign in 2019-20. In comparison to that, Liverpool are having a contrasting season, where they have fallen to seventh place after 27 fixtures. In 2021, Klopp’s side has played 11 matches but managed to earn just 10 points from a possible 33. Out of their last five matches, the Anfield side has suffered four losses.

Mason Mount scored the winner for Chelsea and Klopp heaped praise on the young midfielder, saying his "individual quality" changed the game in his side’s favor.

"Intense game, tight game, one very decisive moment decided the game - the individual quality of Mason, if you want, in that situation decided the game. It was a ball in behind our last line, cut inside and in the end, we don’t defend in the right space because these quality players, they go inside and they want to shoot from there so we don’t have to be on the six-yard box, we have to be there where he wants to finish it off. I think we were not there and that’s the goal we conceded, and our situations we didn’t use. That’s pretty much the explanation for the result," Klopp was quoted by Liverpool’s official website, as saying, in a post-match interview.

Liverpool will look to end their losing streak at home in the league when they host relegation-threatened Fulham Sunday.