I wanted to hold off on posting until some of the hysteria had died down (or moved to the Brendan Rodgers thread) so I'll tell you what I saw. I saw a manager who is trying everything he can to get this shower of sh*t operating as a coherent unit and for a large part, it actually worked today. I saw a home team's goal keeper get man of the match because he pulled out some fantastic saves and was the busier of the two. I saw Liverpool's midfield produce a lot of excellent aproach play but offered nothing in the way of goal threat. If Sterling scores that sitter twenty seconds before they sucker punch us at the other end, the game takes on a very different reflection. If Coutinho wasn't a lazy b***ard and tracks back with Rooney, there's a good chance he doesn't get in to position to score such a soft goal.
If Sterling scores that sitter in the second half and we go to 2-1, I see United emboriled in a very nervous second half and us potentially getting something out of the game. But he didn't, and that's not the gaffer's fault. None of the goals where his fault. That's life. It's easy to start second guessing his team selection but what I don't see is starting Can over Allen making the slightest bit of difference when we leak goals down to individual mistakes and poor officiating at the match. We can argue the merits of his team selection or his transfers another day but today there was definately signs of improvement and there is no doubt in my mind that if we'd had Sturridge available for selection today, we'd have beat those cu*ts. As I and others have said before, it's going to be painful until January when he's back.
We where the better team today and we lost simply because United took their chances and we did not. At the end of the day, that's what Football is about.
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