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Liverpool were brought back down to earth by struggling Bournemouth – just six days on from thrashing fierce rivals Manchester United 7-0.
Mohamed Salah shanked a secondhalf penalty wide to sum up a poor display on a wet and windy afternoon, with Liverpool missing out on a chance to break into the top four ahead of the second leg of their Champions League tie with Real Madrid.
Boss Jurgen Klopp said: “There is a lot to go for but today is not the moment to talk about that.
“This game was a massive knock. You know how it is with knocks, you have to take them, see how big the scars are and go from there.”
Only Arsenal and Manchester City – the league’s top two sides– have a better home record than Liverpool who battered Bournemouth 9- 0 at Anfield
Bournemouth ................ 1 Liverpool ........................ 0 earlier this season. But the Reds have won just three of their 13 away games, losing seven. Klopp said: “Concerned? Yes, I see it.
“In the home games we are in the top four but in the away games we are not even in Europe.
“It was a big strength for us in the last year, it made a real difference, but that is how it is.
“We get a penalty, miss the penalty and if we had scores there it would have given us a proper boost.
“But we didn’t and then you could see we were in a bit of a rush, we didn’t create enough. We lost the game and it is very frustrating.”
Bournemouth had been two goals up at league leaders Arsenal last week only to succumb to a stoppage-time defeat but their response here was admirable.
Philip Billing turned in a cross from the lively Dango Ouattara to put them ahead just before the half-hour and they staunchly defended their advantage.
Head coach Gary O’Neil said: “We thoroughly deserved it and I’m really pleased for the boys.
“Performances in the past three games against top opposition have been very good. The stuff that has gone against us recently, we were due for something to go our way, definitely.
“I was asked if they would have any hangovers from what happened at Arsenal last weekend – that performance was your answer.”
The Cherries were no doubt buoyed by the return of David Brooks to a matchday squad for the first time in 525 days, the Wales midfielder having been diagnosed with stage two Hodgkin’s lymphoma in October 2021.
O’Neil added: “I felt privileged to be able to sit and tell him yesterday
“For him and his family and the journey he has been on and been through, I was delighted for him.
“We still need to be realistic with how much he can do at the moment, I was desperate to try and get him on at some point but the game didn’t really go that way.”