Unusual for me but I feel deflated after that result. Looking at it sensibly, its a point gained at our toughest away fixture yet it was one of those where all our old issues against bus-parkers came back. Probably the oddest, most tedious game I've seen in 45 years as a supporter!
Looking at it now, I think the lads were pleased to get a draw. Klopp said they didn't 'feel right.' Not surprised. We looked set up for a midfield battle, yet found ourselves dominating midfield and smashing ourselves to bits against the wall of defenders. We seemed to stop and hold so many times in attack, when the right quick pass would have opened them up before they got organised. I think we feared to risk losing far more than we wanted to risk going for the win - and maybe that felt right to the lads today. It was tense out there. The Manure defended well.
Midfield did a good midfield job, but a poor attacking one. Defence was ok but we look nervy at set pieces and slow to get back.
Our front three were static, isolated from each other and kept over-hitting or misplacing passes. Service consisted largely of overhit crosses (against a pretty tall team!).
All in all, I'm trying hard to convince myself that we gained a point rather than lost 2, but 29 recent seasons have taught me to be cautiously optimistic on the back of a performance like that, so that's me. I kind of get everything I'm reading on here, tonight, positive and negative. Totally get it. Splinters in me arse from this fence I'm sitting on!
Still, I'll keep singing for the next one. Come on you mighty REDMEN! We are TOP OF LEAGUE!
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