Liverpool’s 3-1 loss at Old Trafford was a humiliating experience for Brendan Rodgers and his team and now a huge contingency of fans has now turned against the Liverpool manager despite having played just five games into the season.
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Without a striker of Luis Suarez’s quality, it’s perfectly possible that we may not be able to recreate our 2013/14 goalscoring form simply by reverting to two up front.
The Liverpool manager felt his side conceded possession too cheaply, too often, adding: “We need to be a lot technically better than we showed today”.
“Daniel returned to training but there is no timeline on when he will play in games”, Rodgers is quoted as saying by Sky Sports News.
While it is hard to pick out many positives from Saturday’s game, the goal is certainly one, and should give the former Aston Villa man plenty of confidence for the rest of the season. I thought both players tangled for the ball and Ashley Young jumps on our player’s back and gets the free-kick. I don’t understand this obsession with playing 4-3-3. If you look at Saturday … they looked like they’d never played together before, which makes sense.
Liverpool brought in seven players during the summer, in addition to Divock Origi, who signed in 2014, and Comolli says it is no surprise that Rodgers’ side are yet to find their rhythm yet.
First impressions are that he has used it more wisely this time but the same old weakness in central defence reared its head against West Ham, as did the lack of firepower. At the moment, that’s the thing he’s finding hard .
Christian Benteke’s superb scissor kick goal was the only highlight for Liverpool yesterday, and it hauled the Reds back into the game with only minutes to go.
“In the first half, we didn’t play”.
“They need to avoid defeat on Thursday, then they have two massive games at home“.
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After they sunk to a lacklustre 3-1 defeat to Manchester United this weekend, many of them have been discussing at all hours of the day the best way to get their season back on track.
