West Ham fans are well aware of the club’s terrible record at Anfield.
The last time we beat Liverpool on their own patch was in 2015, when Slaven Bilic guided us to a rare three points via a comfortable 3-0 victory.
That was our first win at Anfield since 1963, and we haven’t won there since. So that’s just one Anfield win in the last 61 years.
But if you thought that was bad, it gets even worse. That’s because since our first trip to Anfield in 1914, which we unsurprisingly lost 5-1 in an FA Cup 3rd Round Replay, we’ve only felt the sweet, sweet taste of victory on four different (4) occasions.
That’s right, in 110 years of visiting Anfield, West Ham have won just four matches there, and only one of those has come in the last 61 years. In fact, it took 14 years to register our first Anfield win, with a 3-1 Division 1 victory in February 1928. It then took another 26 years for our second Anfield win – a 2-1 triumph in Division 2 in 1954.
Nine years later we did it again by the same scoreline in 1963, before having to wait until 2015 for our fourth and most recent Anfield win – a period of 52 years.
The club has visited Anfield 72 times in over a century and has only managed a win ratio of just 6%.
With all that taken into account, West Ham fans can be forgiven for not expecting anything other than defeat when we make it 73 Anfield trips on Wednesday night.
After all, our Carabao Cup quarter-final against Liverpool at Anfield last season ended in a 5-1 thrashing. Many will be predicting a similar scoreline on Wednesday.
Put simply, West Ham just don’t win at Anfield. It’s not a thing and it’ll likely stay that way for a little longer, even as reports emerge of manager Arne Slot planning to make 11 changes to the team that beat Bournemouth last weekend.
