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- Updated: September 24, 2016
Mike Phelan says Hull City are under no illusions after Liverpool inflicted their heaviest Premier League defeat in six years with a 5-1 victory on Saturday.
For the second week running Hull were reduced to 10 men as Ahmed Elmohamady saw red for a deliberate handball, setting the Tigers en route to their biggest defeat since going down 1-5 away to Everton in March 2010.
The Tigers had been second best until that point though, and succumbed to a James Milner penalty in either half and goals from Adam Lallana, Sadio Mane and Philippe Coutinho.
“It was definitely difficult, we’re under no illusions how difficult this league is,” Phelan, who was celebrating his 54th birthday, told Sky Sports.
“We’re on the back of losing to Arsenal and now coming to Liverpool, which was always going to be hard and we’ve lost heavily.
“But we move forward to the next one, which is Chelsea, then we’ll have a break where we can regroup and build on from …
