“For me it’s about reinforcing the process of how we can arrive in positions to score goals”.
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“All I can do is control the team and how we operate, and try to maximise what I can get out of the players available”.
“My approach is what I did in this competition when I first came in”.
“We played very well and took a positive point away from home“. This is what we as players wanted last season; to play against the best in the league.
Liverpool won TWO games, not the first “few”.
The former Swansea City manager believes calmness is once again the key to dealing with any speculation over his position.
“It’s the nature of management. It was his touch and creativity which we have not seen so much of this season”, added Rodgers.
“It has been a hard start for me, but I’m fit now and ready to contribute”. I thought he was brilliant in the game and that’s what we want. “And, when you call on me, I always rise to the challenge”. Yet, he will derive some comfort from his unfamiliar team claiming a point on the road ahead of taking on Sion and Rubin Kazan at Anfield.
“I definitely need to start delivering that quality in the box more consistently now”, Lallana said.
“It is a little bit unfair”.
“But as some of the other teams have shown this season it’s more than achievable to go there and give a good account of yourself and hopefully get something from the game”.
“That momentum has carried on well with them, they’re a good side, he’s managed them really well and adapted well to the club”.
Norwich defender Andre Wisdom, on loan from Liverpool, is ineligible and Gary Hooper is out with an ankle injury but Lewis Grabban has returned to training and is available.
Bordeaux finished the game in the ascendancy and their goal duly arrived – Joe Gomez and Emre Can guilty of ball-watching allowing Brazilian substitute Jussiê to ghost in at the far post and fire past Mignolet.
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The pair of Martin Skrtel and Mamadou Sakho might be the one to take the field on Sunday given Sakho’s fantastic performance against Bordeaux and Dejan Lovren’s shaky performances the past couple of matches.
