Saturday 28 January 2017 20:19, UK
Liverpool will equal an unwanted 94-year record if Chelsea beat them in their Premier League clash at Anfield on Tuesday.
Jurgen Klopp's side have lost three Anfield games within a week, going out of two competitions in the process, but a fourth defeat will see their worst run of losses at home since 1923.
The past week has perhaps been Klopp's most testing since joining the club in October 2015.
Saturday's 3-2 defeat by struggling Swansea meant they ended the weekend 10 points behind Premier League leaders Chelsea, before the EFL Cup semi-final second-leg loss against Southampton and a 2-1 defeat by Championship side Wolves in the FA Cup on Saturday reduced their hopes of a first piece of silverware at the club since 2012.
Klopp won't be welcoming the visit of Antonio Conte's Chelsea on Tuesday, and a defeat by the Blues will place the German alongside former Liverpool manager David Ashworth as the only two managers to lose four straight Anfield games.
Ashworth's four straight defeats came in the First Division against Aston Villa, Sheffield United, Cardiff City and Newcastle United in November and December 1923, and despite regaining some form in January, he was replaced by Scot Matt McQueen the next month.
The last time Liverpool lost three straight games at Anfield was September and October 2012, under Brendan Rodgers. After defeats by Arsenal (2-0), Man Utd (2-1) and Udinese (3-2), Rodgers' side stopped the rot with a 0-0 draw against Stoke and a 1-0 win over Reading.
Before last Saturday's defeat by Swansea, the Reds had only lost one competitive game at Anfield in the last 12 months.
And even that defeat, against Stoke City in the EFL Cup semi-final, saw Liverpool come through in a penalty shoot-out after a 1-1 aggregate draw.
Klopp accepted full responsibility for the latest upset and refused to sugar-coat the situation he now finds himself in having lost three successive matches for the first time since taking over in October 2015, with leaders Chelsea up next at Anfield on Tuesday in the Premier League.
"If someone asks if this is the lowest point of my Liverpool time until now, I don't know," he said. "But if it is it is a perfect moment to turn because it is not possible to go lower.
"I don't think it is the right time to talk about being positive or optimistic. In this moment we feel really bad. It is absolutely right that it feels bad and we have to use it in this moment."
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