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Watford break Liverpool’s unbeaten run in English Premier League

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In English Premier League football, European Champions Liverpool handed their first defeat of the season as Watford beat the league leaders 3-0.

Liverpool’s unbeaten run in this season’s Premier League was ended in unfathomable fashion on Saturday as struggling Watford hammered the European champions 3-0 at their ecstatic Vicarage Road stadium.

Ismaila Sarr inspired the extraordinary upset, stunning Liverpool with two goals in six second-half minutes before setting up captain Troy Deeney with a third for the team who had started the day one from bottom, 55 points behind the runaway leaders.

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