One of the reasons we played well against you guys as well as your tiredness, was we had a platform of Partey & Xhaka at the base of midfield. It's our best combination, unfortunately we all know Xhaka's faults.
Outside them we are weak. Yesterday we only had Lokonga who is ok but still young himself in his first season in English football, with Odegaard & an evidently not fit Smith-Rowe and we were a bit powder puff in there and easy to press and play through.
I think we did try the long ball to Martinelli a fair and it gave us joy early part of the game but Liverpool soon caught that and doubled up on him. Saka didn't have a good game, and Lacazette isn't physical or fast enough against the better teams.