The formation seems to work fairly well, and suits us at the moment as it allows us to play both Coutinho and Lallana behind Sterling. Happy for Coutinho to get his goal, was well taken, but he had a few other chances he really should have done better with. He had a good game overall though, him and Lallana offered good movement and generally linked up well. Markovic was lively again, and though Sterling had a fairly quiet game he's always a danger.
Unfortunately we're terrible defensively. All three centre backs made errors today, and there's very little defensive cover offered by Lucas and Gerrard. Today was another example of the problem we've always had under Rodgers. We can dominate a game, control possession, create a whole heap of chances, but if we're so vulnerable defensively teams will know they can create one or two clear cut chances to convert.
Lallana summed it up well in his post match: "Encouraging performance, disappointing result."
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