Liverpool finished a dramatic match with nine men after defenders Philipp Degen and Jamie Carragher both received red cards as they crashed to a 3-1 defeat at Fulham.
Bobby Zamora had scored for the home side before Fernando Torres replied.
Erik Nevland restored Fulham's lead before Clint Dempsey sealed the win, with the visitors having both Degen and Carragher dismissed.
Fulham had not had a single shot on Jose Reina's goal when, shortly after Yossi Benayoun had produced an acrobatic volley which fairly rattled the Fulham crossbar, the home side broke away. The ball came to Damien Duff on the left and he curled in a raking cross which allowed Zamora to tap home from close range.
When the equaliser came Liverpool could hardly put it down to rhythm and style.
Andriy Voronin's weak header cannoned off a Fulham defender and arced into the hitting zone of Torres. The Spaniard swivelled and a fabulous volley from the edge of the box fairly scorched past Fulham goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer.
The Cottagers went ahead after 74 minutes, when Reina could only parry Paul Konchesky's cross. The ball was headed back across goal by Zoltan Gera and there was Nevland to slide the ball into the net.
It got worse for Liverpool four minutes later when Degen was sent off for a reckless lunge on Dempsey.
Three minutes later Liverpool were down to nine men when Carragher brought down Zamora and also received a red card.
And to wrap up an afternoon to forget for Rafael Benitez, Dempsey rolled in the third for Fulham.
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Kyrgiakos is a f c k n joke!!!!!
rafa out, mourinho/ hiddink in. any supporter that thinks otherwise is a fukkkin idiot. I watched that game yesterday and by his substitutions, u can see he's losing the respect of his players and thats no even taking into account his awful match results. He's gerrard houllier in disguise.
A SEASON TO BE JOLLY INDEED!!..CHRISTMAS HAS COME EARLY!!!...LOL....T.WAT..
DEAR LORD
I WANT LIVERPOOL TO KEEP BENITEZ, HICKS, GILLET, VORONIN AND LUCAS
I ALSO WANT TO SEE BENITEZ KEEP ON SUB-BING TORRES GERRAD KUYT AND BENAYOUN
I HOPE YOU CAN GET THEM RELEGATED IN ANOTHER 2 YEARS TIME
AMIN
As I have said repeatably on here, the fat Spanish waiter from Marbella is nothing but a 'Bengal Lancer' and Liverfool will go nowhere fast with him at the helm. He's spent over 200 million signed over 70 players and has only a two man team to show for it and those thick Mickey Mouser fans are saying "we can't sack him he's one of us".........dead right he is....and long may he remain so.
They're going out of the Champions league this week so they will be able to concentrate on the FA cup....useless absolutely useless.
They thought that it was the coming of the second Christ when they beat Man ure last week....when everybody knows that on that performance the Corinthian Casuals could have beaten them.
I can't wait until Wednesday when Rafa and his motley crew get done... can't wait to hear those stupid squeaky voices of Garragher and Gerrard at the after match post morton...can't wait to see old paella chops go redder and redder!!!
What's the connection between Liverfool and Butlins?.....both of their seasons are over before by the first week in November.
Bluesareme.
dd_80_su. Are u on drugs or completely insane: RELAX the title will come, of course it will, just hope you are young enough to see the event, if your in your 40s or over, forget it.
Raffa has had no money to spend, not sure where u are coming from on this one, Raffa has outspent MU, Arsenal @ Chelsea. And the team is very average indeed.
Lose in France against Lyon and your season is OVER in the first week of November, shame on you RELAX, Go for some more Electic shock treatment before the few brain cells you have left dry up.
RIGHT... absoulutley sick of all the BS abuse that ao called Liverpool fans ar hurling at our gaffa... Firstly, he did not have any money to spend in the summer to stregnthen the squad... not his fault... Secondly whatever happened to supporting your team through the bad times and the worst times? We all love Raffa when we are winning; and yet when he needs our support the most we join in lynching in... Why are we all panicikingng??? There is still along way to go before the end of the season... Even though we only lost 2 games last season we all have to remember how many we drew, those draws were more or less equivalent to us losing 5 or 6 games... Give Raffa a break, if anyone should leave it should be the men at the top, why have we become so obsessed with winning that we are willing to sacrifice on of our own??? And yes Raffa is one of our own... He has won all the major honors since taking over Houllier in 2004/2005 so lets show him a some respect. The premier league title will come, just relax!!!
Its about time we Liverpool supporters dropped our blind faith in Benitez and realised how useless this man is ,Spent over two hundred million pounds bought 78 players and cant win against a team like Fulham The man is a complete prat and should be shown the door at Anfield
they cant afford to sack him cos it cost 20million so he stays wonderful
Time 4 the paella guzzler 2 go
belive me it does not take a genius to see how poor vorrinin and lucas are but the fat spanish greasy useless waiter is far from a genius i know we need a goal so lets take torres off oh dear what a w4nker do the right thing walk or top yourself dont mind which
belive me it does not take a genius to see how poor vorrinin and lucas are but the fat spanish greasy useless waiter is far from a genius i know we need a goal so lets take torres off oh dear what a w4nker do the right thing walk or top yourself dont mind which
BENITEZ HAS TO GO BRING ON THE SPECIAL ONE
Brill, Liverpool can write off another piece of silverware and concentrate on the Champs League, hopefully next week will see them out of that also, so they can push for the FA cup.Keep thinking off the past boy's....
Chelsea till I die.
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