Liverpool FC had 64% of the possession. Liverpool FC won 56% of the duels on the ground and in the air, so it certainly wasn’t because of lack of effort. Our passing accuracy was 86%, Man City’s was 77%. We took 16 shots, Man City took 11. So what went wrong for the Reds?
We Lacked ‘True’ Attacking Options
We lacked avenues for which we could move forward in. Even after being two goals down, only Andy Carroll was up there in the box offering Liverpool FC the only avenue for continuing attacks, most of which saw Carroll way to far away from goal to take a decent crack at it, or has given away because there wasn’t enough Liverpool support that was near him.
At 2-0 down, you’ve just gotta look at Man City and ask them questions about their defence. We didn’t. We sat back slightly too far and our players were simply too close to each other in general, none truly got behind the right/left backs of Man City and got decent crosses in (high crosses preferably, for our lanky Englishman).
We’ll Miss Suarez
I’ve been pretty much Switzerland on the debate about whether Liverpool should get another striker in January, given the fact that Carroll seemed to be getting better in the past few days (especially at Newcastle, where he made an impact with Gerrard’s crosses), whilst Suarez’s return would be more than enough for Liverpool to finish the season, but I think otherwise now. Liverpool fans have to face the truth sometimes: he’s struggling.
He has no form to work with, he’s been given that chance with this run of games, but I simply think that he won’t fit into this Liverpool set-up (at least just yet). Our game is better on the ground and I think Kenny must realize this before he blows his January transfer kitty on a right winger just for Carroll (although it might be debatable whether he would do better with better service).
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