I don't think team selection was an error.
A fact is with or without our "first team" (I don't really consider we have one for Rodger's system, if we could have 11 players playing his style to its full potential we would be winning most games ; actually Rodgers still have to find them) we are leaking lots of goals and have some problem finishing too. It's nothing new, out of the 4 first months of Kenny or the occasional good game after, it's the same since about 2 years and a half, despite trying many different systems and players. Looks like we are under the effects of a curse, with our players making silly individual errors and/or having to face bad refeering everytime the team play well, until (I hope it won't happen this year like the last) the team lose confidence and just stops to play well.
Rodgers is changing our style to one with more passes but face the exact same problems as his predecessors, even if most of the team has changed, I think there's a big confidence issue, both for old players who have seen one or two managing legends fail to change the situation, and for new ones as the last 3 years failures put these very young players under a very heavy pressure. We are asking the Shelvey generation to save Liverpool when they know players far better than them failed.
In this situation, when both our (in theory) best players and our less proven ones have confidence issues, I think the best he can is giving a chance to everyone, using all the squad until we find a team finally getting results, why, would, say, Coates not desserve to play, when the 'A' team with Skrtel and Agger leaked just as many goals in most games ?
By the way if I was Rodgers I would rotate the team even more. Liverpool need something magic to happen to end a very long spell of (mainly) undesserved results, I think it may as much happen with Assaidi in the team or even Downing as with our best players. The reds unluck level is so high, there's no rationale good choice for composition, the hypothetical level of players can't be trusted when everytime a good performer makes a silly error it costs us a goal. The only criteria the manager should use is one supporters can't see, it's his knowledge of player's psychology and study of training results to play someone the day he has the mental and fitness to have a good game despite the collective confidence issue. Out of the young Sterling (so far) I don't see one Liverpool player who is in this state of mind and form every game he plays. When you face so unsure players, deciding who are our best 11 then sticking to it no matter the results may be far worse than trying many teams (I think the last year showed that).
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