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Originally Posted by ticos_stick
Well Liverpool have well and truly bottled it. The Palace game must have felt like a nightmare to their fans. I think at 0-3 they should have sat back and defended but the goal difference factor made them push on. It was like they forgot how to defend in the last twenty minutes.
It's a shame. They play nice attacking football and it'd be good to see another team win it but they've crumbled at this crucial late stage. Can they come back next season against stronger Chelsea and Man Utd teams? If Suarez leaves there's not much chance.
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I don't think we've bottled it, I think we just can't defend. It's been the case all season. Yesterday was just a disgrace. I was happy for us to keep going on for the goal difference because the game should have been put to bed in the first half anyway. We missed so many opportunities and I actually had a feeling it was going to be 'one of those games.'
I think Rodgers went wrong by not bringing on a defender, though. I mean, we had Suarez who almost puked in the warm up, we had Lucas who was doing bugger all and he goes and takes of Sterling who was making some good runs and assisting and Sturridge. Yeah, Sturridge wasn't 100% fit so I can see the logic in that one but I still don't know why he brought Moses on.
Toure and Agger are two great defenders to have on the bench. Toure for the first few games was our leader at the back. He was organizing the defence in the same way that Carragher was and one thing we needed last night was a leader at the back.
It is not over. I know it can go down to the last day and City HAVE to lose but an upset can be on the cards. No-one expected that sort of game yesterday. Let's see what Sunday has to offer.