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Full credit to Brighton for being well organized and tough to break down. Our play can be one dimensional though and some searching passes for the wing-backs to chase would stretch the opposition defence.

I think the point is, we need to turn those draws last season into wins at Anfield against the weaker sides. If we do that we will improve our point tally. We had 7 draws at Anfield last season against Burnley and stokes of this world, simply not good enough.

It's not about leading at this stage, nothing is decided yet but when people say must win at Anfield against Brighton then I agree because we need an almost perfect record at home to challenge for the league.

Yes one game or two this early doesn't decide the final league places.

BUT bad results now put more pressure on the squad going forwards.

The probability of winning the PL drops by every lost point across the whole season (the same way as every win increases the probability of nicking it in the end), so keeping the big 0 for conceded goals makes a hell of a difference.

What we need to do now is find our feet when it comes to the playing style offensively. It hasn't clicked on all cylinders quite yet, and we need it going into the tougher games later on. I'd say that after the international brake I like to see us taking a big step into that direction - or we'll start to struggle when we face Spuds, Chelski and Citeh in September/October.

We now have Leicester, Spuds, Soton, Chelski and Citeh in that order. That's a tough run of games, where we need to be at our very best.

That is a tough run of games. But that's when we seem to see the best out of this team. If we can come still on top of the league after the City game, that's a very strong position. Very exciting times, but trying not to get my hopes up.