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Liverpool fans point the finger at one man and one man only after shock Swansea defeat

Published 14:31 21 Jan 2017 GMT

Updated 14:37 21 Jan 2017 GMT

Tom Victor
Liverpool fans point the finger at one man and one man only after shock Swansea defeat

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Liverpool had the perfect chance to get their title charge back on track today, with the fixture list throwing up a home meeting with the Premier League's bottom club, Swansea City.

The Reds had been unbeaten at home all season, but that run was ended as a Fernando Llorente double and Gylfi Sigurdsson's late winner gave Paul Clement's team all three points in a 3-2 win. After a flat first half, the visitors took a shock lead when Fernando Llorente fired home as Jürgen Klopp's team failed to deal with a corner. And Llorente made it two not long after, heading home after good work from new signings Tom Carroll and Martin Olsson. Roberto Firmino scored twice himself to level things up, but lax defending let in Sigurdsson to beat Simon Mignolet and lift the Swans off the bottom of the Premier League table. The set piece from which the first goal arrived came Swansea's way thanks to a mistake from Dejan Lovren, and the Croatian bore the brunt of the criticism from Reds fans. https://twitter.com/jakeyorath/status/822799937570271234 https://twitter.com/gmaster9793/status/822799843596697600 https://twitter.com/PatMacauley/status/822799665397723137 Some of the comments were more descriptive than others. https://twitter.com/_MohdSaifAli/status/822799729163571201 But the general mood was consistent. https://twitter.com/SteveMcVeigh123/status/822802543596146688 https://twitter.com/Alex_Barra12/status/822800010781691906 Even bringing on the previously unbeaten Joel Matip wasn't enough for Klopp's men, who could find themselves hanging on to their top four place by a thread when the weekend is over. There's sure to be calls for Lovren to make way for the Reds' next game, the EFL Cup second leg against Southampton in midweek.

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Liverpool fans point the finger at one man and one man only after shock Swansea defeat