Very disappointing performance overall but a game that we didn’t concede in open play. I thought we dug in, and must give the lads some credit for that, but it was our fault that we had to dig in unfortunately. Poor pass by Ake, who has been superb this season but Ederson didn’t have to go in like that in my opinion. How many times has he given away a foul like that? And he gets injured in the process.. Ortega played well when he came on, I think he’s a great goalkeeper. He’s far too good to sit on our bench.
Alvarez is never going to be a midfielder. I honestly can’t see what we’re trying to do when both he and Haaland play together. I’d have hooked Erling today, he was anonymous. He can say he got no service, but he’s simply got to get involved in the game. We cannot afford for him to play like today and for me it wasn’t an isolated game.
They were there for the taking and we decided to completely abandon our style of football and let them have the ball to come back at us time and again.
It’s by no means over, I still think we’ll do it, but we’ve just given the scousers and the Tarquins hope and confidence.
