Liverpool’s 100% home record ends in EPL
Liverpool: Norwich finally succumbed to relegation, a fate their manager and many others expected at the start of the English Premier League. Fewer, though, would have predicted Liverpool losing their perfect home record against Burnley. Liverpool have just records to chase after clinching a first league title in 30 years, and one of them fell by the wayside on Saturday. The Reds will not become the first team in the Premier League era (since 1992) to win all of their home games in a single campaign, after drawing with Burnley 1-1. They won their previous 17 games at Anfield, and had just Chelsea left to play there. Given Chelsea lost at Sheffield United 3-0 on Saturday in a surprisingly one-side match, Liverpool likely wouldn’t have been too perturbed. The heavy defeat meant third-placed Chelsea could get overtaken by both Leicester and Manchester United in the coming days in the race for Champions League qualification. Fifth place will still secure a place in next season’s Champions League if second-placed Manchester City fails in its bid to get a two-year European ban overturned in the courts. City will discover the result of their appeal on Monday. City won at Brighton 5-0 in the late game, with Raheem Sterling scoring a hat trick. Players wore black armbands as games started with a minute’s silence in a tribute to England’s 1966 World Cup winner, Jack Charlton, who died on Friday aged 85. agencies
