I'll take the point, but its always disappointing to drop the other two when you were leading at some point in the game.
In terms of the game itself there was plenty of good and less good stuff. Some of the good things are that we continue to be very dangerous going forward. If we manage to break through whatever the opposition has in the middle of the park, we're always of huge danger in the final third. Both Salah and Alisson continue to be huge players for us with no sign of slowing down. We manage to make adjustments during the game that bear fruits.
With that said, we have problems that have been there for a long time and seem to continue no matter what. The most obvious one is that tendency to concede the first goal and fairly early at that. It's like we're switched of for the firs 25 minutes or so of every game and its only a question of time before a very bad pass is made and we're giving the other team a scoring opportunity served on a plate. I said that we manage to make changes during the game and those changes bear fruit, but there's also a negative side to it which is that we seem to react very slowly. Once its apparent to everyone that we have a problem in an area, it takes us 15-20 minutes to do anything about it and sometimes its too late by the time we do do something about it. Today we also displayed problems when it came to set pieces which we usually don't (at least as far as I can remember).
I'm okay with the point away from home to Brighton who are team who will always have a better time against bigger opposition than they will against smaller ones. With that said, for the 100th time, we need to stop conceding the first goal and become proactive rather than reactive. We have to dictate the play from the start of the game rather than spend 20 minutes lost, concede one and then wake up.
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