Liverpool fail to beat Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Premier League record after Fulham loss

Liverpool's loss to on Sunday might not have seriously harmed their title chances but has seen the Reds miss out on the chance to break a record. men were , despite taking an early lead through a sublime strike from .

Goals from Fulham trio , and Rodrigo Muniz punished for their error-ridden performance and the hosts were 3-1 up by half-time. pulled a goal back in the second half but it was too little too late, as Liverpool suffered their first league defeat away from home this season.

Fortunately, title rivals also dropped points on Saturday, as they were forced to against . Both results mean that the Reds are still 11 points clear at the top of the table with seven games to go.

Liverpool's only loss in the league prior to Sunday came at Anfield, as pulled of a . Had they avoided defeat in their final four matches on the road - trips to Fulham, , , and - they'd have become only the fifth team in English top-flight history to go a full season unbeaten away from home.

But Slot's men were unable to extend their 17-game streak, stretching back to April 2024 when was still in charge. set the record for the longest unbeaten away run in Premier League history a few years ago under , going 29 games without losing between February 2020 and September 2021.

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Solskjaer and Co. surpassed Arsenal's previous record of 27 matches which was set between April 2003 and September 2004, coincidentally broken by United. However, there's no question that Solskjaer would've swapped his record for what Slot is on the cusp of achieving in his first season as a Premier League manager.

The earliest Liverpool can secure the title is now Sunday, April 20 when they visit relegation-battling Leicester. Slot will be hoping for an improved performance compared to his side's display against Fulham.

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The Reds boss said post-match: "Everybody needs to be aware - and they are, so actually I didn't even need to tell them - that the only way we can win a game of football is by hard work, 90 minutes [of] constant effort.

"Because I've said it a few times now, we are not the team that are leading at half-time with 3-0 or 4-0 with three, four or five acts of brilliance. It is hard work every time we won a game of football this season, except for two or three games."

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