Not as bad a performance as people will try to tell you, but the problem was we had a few passengers we couldn't continue to carry.
Ward: Nothing he could do with a deflected goal and a wonder strike. Other than that I thought he did very well indeed, some great claims, one in particular amazing one and superb distribution. 6
Robertson: Did well, great crosses and what defending he had to do was done reasonably well. Didn't think he was really at fault for either of their goals and did his chances of first team footy no harm. 7
Klavan: Shame, had a good first half but was at fault for both their goals. Didn't get back in and do his job properly on the first and decided to wrestle rather than defend on the second. 5
Gomez: Gutted for him because he played superb in that first half, was a contender for MotM in that first half to be honest but has to take the lion's share of the blame for the first goal due to poor offside positioning and can't let his man just run past him and shoot so easily. Showed he has bags of pace early on with a closing down of their keeper, use the same pace to recover lad. 5
Flanno: All heart, no quality unfortunately. Actually felt sorry for him while watching him. 5
Henderson: Thought he was superb in the first half and still decent in the second but don't think he had any help from the 4 around him (Gini/Grujic completley and Klavan/Gomez 2nd half). 7.5
Grujic: Shocking, contender for worst player on the pitch but lucky for him we had someone even worse. No idea how he stayed on the pitch, Jürgen appears to have got this one wrong judging him on this alone. Shame as he's looked so much better in friendlies but when it comes to competitive footy this was diabolical. 3
Gini: Slowed us down far too often in that first half, we had overlaps all over the place and it even resulted in Jürgen screaming at him at one point because you've got to keep the tempo in the game when you're dominating not take it out of it every single time as he was. Thought it was a poor showing from him. 5
Coutinho: Started sh*te, got better and better as the half went on, but was only on for a half and should have done better with a couple of his chances. 5
AOC: One of the single worst displays I've ever seen from a player, it was as if he was wearing someone else's legs let alone socks. Absolutely couldn't pass a ball, shoot a ball, cross a ball, take a corner, surprised he managed to walk off in the right direction. 2
Solanke: Love him, should have scored though and has to be more clinical but the lad is quality, real future ahead of him but these are the games you have to dominate Dom because you've now done yourself out of a few more chances this season. 7
Woodburn: Awesome, looked a class apart when he came on and if he'd been on the whole game like that he'd have walked the MotM vote. 7
Ings: Thought he looked sharper than I expected him to but wasn't really given that long to make an impression.
Klopp: Will be gutted and hasn't got what he deserved but in truth I thought he left Grujic and AOC on for far too long (well never took them off), to me that was a sign that he wasn't really that interested in this competition because even a blind man could see how poor they were playing so he preferred to give them minutes than give us a boost. Will take it in the neck for that and deservedly so, don't think you should chuck the towel in on a cup competition so to speak at the expense of such small rewards but it is what it is. Could have easily been 3 or 4 up in that first half though and none of that would have been considered.
Shame, the doom mongers will be all over it, but as I said at the top it was nowhere near as bad as you'll be told.
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