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I'm not buying into this "young players didn't turn up to day". I feel any age senior team that Liverpool football club put out to should be beating Oldham. I think the mistake Rodgers made was the combination of skrtel an Coates cost us the game. Any good centre back pairing consists of 1 intelligent centre half an 1 ball winning centre half that's why either agger or carra should hav played.. They would hav controlled the back 4 and talked the young players through the match.
But instead we had 1 very good ball winner ( skrtel) an 1 very bad ball winning centre half (Coates) so the balance and confidence in the team stemed from the back. There was no control and discipline or no footballing brain. Which I think was the cause in losing the game

Apart from Gerrard the whole team was horrible. Coates will never be a top defender and BR needs to stop playing 4 stone players that have no impact on games. Our players lacked a good set of balls yesterday. No disrespect to oldham but they are a very poor team, just take a look at their league form. They won yesterday because they got in our faces and wanted it more. To think that some of their players are getting £300 a week is mind blowing compared to our over paid bottlers!

Agree completely. BR probably thought that Oldham would just lie down