That was a frustrating game and as has been said, the lineup was strange.
Alvarez and Akanji are playing unfamiliar roles and it shows. They are not good enough to play it at this level, especially when we have players on the pitch and bench who can play the role better.
Phil is proven in that role and if Kovacic is fit, play him next to Rodri.
Our problem, and it has been for a while, becomes when Rodri is pushing forward and we lose possession, teams just play the ball into the huge hole that is left behind him.
We gifted them two or three good chances in the first half, one which they took because Walker completely leaves Sterling free. You can't leave him like that, I know he can miss a chance but he was never missing that one!
We weren't playing that badly though, but Erling needs to finish both headed chances he had, the second chance was a terrible miss!
We played a lot better second half, especially when Bernardo came on we and should've won it really, but when you're playing a team who is just focused on defending and up against bent officials too, it was always going to be tough.
We get everyone's best game so we shouldn't be surprised, but we didn't lose and
we have to move on now and make sure we finish off the month in style as we have a tough March coming up.
