The effort and the intelligence in the press did what it was supposed to do and we created 3 or 4 early chances and simply didn't have the focus or sharpness to take them tonight. Bobby, Mo, Sadio and Jordan all had chances and didn't take them. Even after City went up we had some chances and various players just kept failing to provide the touch, pass or finish that they normally do.
Defensively Robbo, Trent and Joe all made uncharacteristic errors that led to goals. Twice I saw Robbo dive in and leave his flank wide open and City scored both times. Joe got worked for the pen on the first goal and as Jürgen mentioned, team defending let us down there as well. Trent tried to do too much on the fourth - and by the way, that rule that FIFA put in before the season, that ultimately cost them their 5th goal. I hope they remove that one because we would be fuming if that cost us a goal. If it's not intentional it should not be ruled out.
So we'll see what Jürgen does between now and Sunday. I'm sure with the crowded schedule there was going to be some rotation over these next three matches, but I would hope players will want to get back to a more typical Liverpool performance.
It only really matters if we finish the whole season like that, and I fully expect us to bounce back (even if we don't, it takes nothing away from our title-winning performance, We are STILL on a record-setting pace for the best Premier League season ever).
Once again we sleep tonight as champions.
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