Liverpool home drought continues,lose to Fulham

Martin Skrtel's own goal condemned Liverpool to a 1-0 loss to Fulham,maintaining the team's dreadful home form in the Premier League this season

Martin Skrtel’s own goal condemned Liverpool to a 1-0 loss to Fulham on Tuesday,maintaining the team’s dreadful home form in the Premier League this season. The Slovakia defender turned a fiercely struck cross from former Liverpool player John Arne Riise into his own net in the fifth minute,inflicting a third loss on Kenny Dalglish’s side in its past four matches at Anfield.

The 18-time champions have won just five of 18 home matches in the league and are likely to finish below Merseyside rival Everton,which is three points ahead in seventh place after a 1-1 draw at Stoke on Tuesday.

Dalglish made nine changes to the team that beat Norwich 3-0 on Saturday,giving fringe players a chance to stake a claim ahead of Saturday’s FA Cup final against Chelsea. Liverpool will be seeking a second trophy this season,having already won the League Cup.

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Without Steven Gerrard,Luis Suarez and Pepe Reina,the hosts were short of star quality,although Fulham needed to defend stoutly to clinch its first topflight win at Liverpool.

Dalglishs confession

I am culpable as well as I changed a lot of players to try to give everyone an opportunity to get in the frame for Saturday,” Dalglish said.

I suppose by doing that it was a contributory factor to what happened,but you can only be fair. I tried to be fair and give everyone an opportunity maybe I was wrong.