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I think Anderson is right in so far as we are missing a bit of pace off the ball, i.e. not pressing as hard as we could be.

I'm always fed up if LFC do not win games but I watched the whole of the Sunderland game and all I would say is 'keep the faith.'

In the first half I was bored beyond belief. I almost nodded off. This pass the ball around in non-threatening areas is a complete turn off for me. However in the second half we played Sunderland off the park. I think we are a victim of individual errors and bad luck. You remove that horrible back pass against city and we have two more points. You removed the fact that Sunderland did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on their own patch but score then you have another two points. Against Arsenal we were poor and WBA was just 'one of those games.' In theory we should only be 4 points off a good Chelsea side at the top - a team that have had a damned easier run than us so far!

Since everyone keeps telling me that Allen is the pass master (and he has been good in the past couple of games) he was sub-par against Sunderland (some of the passes that went astray!!!) I am however beginning to like Shelvey and Sterling more and more. In my mind Shelvey could be competing with Gerrard now when Lucas gets back and if Sahin turns out to be a gem it's going to get interesting.

Downing needs to be sold. He came on and had a decent amount of cut and thrust but cannot deliver that final ball for love or money.

Borini is exactly what we thought he was. A younger Dirk Kuyt - and unless we play him up front he will struggle to get goals.

I do wonder what role Assaidi will play - perhaps he will be part of the Europa League matches.

You are more than right to say Sunderland did absolutely nothing and if I am not mistaken, we have had higher possession than our opponents in all our games so far. But with higher possession it's harder to score as the box is always super conjested especially when you don't have strikers like Ruud VN, RVP, Drogba Fowler, Messi. This is why may be with higher possession we have only 2 points out of 12. We'll have two completely different system next week, United prefers to contain pressure and hit on the break. Let's see which one is more effective. Last year we could have won that game, we'll see where we are. I am still not convinced with the new system, hopefully I am wrong.

Well there are positives in so far as we could and should have won this game, couple of good saves and the woodwork again, and their goal was completely against the run of play. We ran the show in them 2nd half and we looked very comfortable. On the minus side we gave away possession too easy and too often and Suarez will have to stop hogging the ball and stop his silly diving.
However I believe we will send Man u home with a slapped ass next weekend.