Interesting game. It brought back some bad memories, that's for sure, although at 3-1 I thought we'd killed off any hope they had.
Yep there's some knee jerk rubbish being said, but for me the game highlighted how our squad is a bit thin in some critical areas and how important it is to keep our first eleven healthy. Also, as some have said very well, we do need a bit more nous than we showed second half. I'm not rubbishing anyone, but there were some serious switch-off moments from most of the lads. We've seen this too often. It comes down to two things - lack of energy and lack of leadership.
I love Klopp, I love his team's methods, but are we seeing the effect of 14 weeks of all-out gegenpressing? The boys were knackered by 65 minutes. Nothing left in the tank. And the first thing that slows is the mind.
However, we had Milner and Henderson, as well as Lucas, Lovren and Lallana out there who might all be expected to know, at 3-1 up away from home, that sometimes the bus needs to pull over and stick the hazards on; organise.
Credit to Bournemouth, they went out to play their game from the start, kept believing, saw where we were fading and put the people on to exploit it. Their fans must have loved it. I could have cried.
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