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Who decided lovren was going to b one of the 5 pen takers !!!

Rogers ..

Oops ... No

Fsg , transfer committee said so !!

if any of you have been involved in a penalty shootout you will know its not anyone decision except the players who want it or not , plus going second was a blow aswell , should always try to go first , by the way i have won and lost cups and semi finals on shootouts as a player and manager .

What's all this hysteria, anybody can miss a penalty, the greatest strikers have missed, even Messi this week. The problem is we couldn't score away, not Lovren missing.

Sturridge is the biggest problem or at least he was in that game. Next to him Sterling - both of them and their need for personal glory - which overshadows the teams need. Mario played Sturridge in and he wasted it, numerous times he should only have looked up to see a team mate in a better position but decided to dribble himself into 5 defenders and then act for a free kick.
Than the genius substituted Mario in stead of Sturrridge. What was our formation last night because it seemed to me we ended with 5 at the back. In a must win game God help us with the genius incharge. Let's not moan about injuries we signed 9 players and only 1 left. It is up to the manager to MANAGE the situation.

Roll on Sunday.

During the weak i read some article which showed stats that teams that reach the latter stages of the Europa, drop on average 2-3 places in the league and on that basis i cant say i am too disappointed we are out of it. Yes i was cheering us on but to be honest i really am not upset we lost, which is a new one for me.

Let's hope this lousy performance does not affect us on the far more important game this Sunday. Its up to BR to produce a positive reaction from the players especially the forwards.

BR/ Revie tactics cost us, Sturridge had plenty of chances to kill the game off, he chose to walk in to the box and look for a stray leg, not sure what he was trying to prove, maybe he wanted to score a penalty to prove Balo wrong, I don't know, but it was inexcusable. This was the debate between Strachan, Reid and Fowler, a real instinctive striker such as Fowler wouldn't have hesitated or taken too many touches, they would have struck straight away.

Sterling was next to useless in that match and has been since his contract negotiations started, he was also guilty of rolling over and looking at the ref, hoping to get a decision, funnily enough Can was the only one who was caught. Not to mention him wildly shooting.

The result and the performance were disappointing but not surprising for me.
even though the side has had a decent run of late, the football has not been fluent and no opponent has been dominated. and the side has had a fair bit of luck.

The tide comes half way in, and the tide goes out all the way.

That's how i see the performances in BR's reign.

What concerns me is the lack of direction with tactics, who plays where, formations and progression.

The plan looks to be to try this and try that, and if we have a few wins, then there is no "next step". then if a first team player is injured or needs a holiday, the plan (if there is one), falls apart.

what is going on?

Shifting blame I see and yet again completely wrong. The order of penalty takers would have been decided beforehand, Rodgers would have then asked them and some may have bottled it and so takers will have to be replaced, but players don't ave that much power to decide who goes and in what order, that's a coaching decision.

It will effect us one way or another. We get 24hr rest or someshet like that by the time we get back to Liverpool? City played 2 days ago and will have another 2=3 days to prepare.