You can't play your strongest team consistently when you account for the number of games played these days. It's such a simple English tabloidesque argument the likes of which Danny F***ing Mills would be wanking himself over on Match of the Day. We didn't have Europe last season and when the Christmas period passed we looked thoroughly done for and just about crawled over the line into the CL places. We need a bit more nous in navigating the season this time and Klopp is absolutely correct in his strategy as was Rafa a decade or so ago. To say rotation cost us when we were so dominant and in control is a ridiculous thing to say. Lovren doesn't make the stupidest of errors and then allowing the referee to make a decision is what cost us here.
Not sure you rest players for this one.
Remember Rafa winning at home to Madrid and Home to United around the same point of the 09 season. There was some rotation but our main hitters were out there.
West Brom at home was the day for rotation. We breazed past the Russians in what was no more rigorous than a training session.
No excuse to rest players, in my opinion it went from about an 90% chance of winning to about 70%.
On another day we would have won, but it gave them a bit more of a chance, a bit more belief and Liverpool being Liverpool we will lose goals and points from nothing as sure as death and taxes.
The mentality was wrong and it would have been if we had won as well. We shouldn't even give these a sniff on our patch.
We're obsessed as fans sometimes at being 'the better team' 'all over them' 'dominating them' but Fat Sam would have been happy 1-0 with 15 to go. I knew they would get a chance.
Klopp changed the game again taking Salah off over Mane who was sh*t all game. We had nothing when he went off and Everton had nothing to lose.
Bad selection, bad subs, bad attitude, bad result. Didn't have to be fatal, we cod have still won, but there was no need for the gamble.
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