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If we're honest we'll accept it's because Liverpool are more potent in attack, when they attack they try to score; when we attack it's just to hold onto the ball like we get 3 points for possession.

Kovacic off but Kante stays on lol!

Kante's first touch in the opposition box is like he's trying to defend for the opposition.

Might as well put Alonso up front.

Hasn't got the awareness.

Extremely frustrating to watch. Kante pumped a ball into Hazard's chest, then in the next move into Willian's chest, then in the move after that he ran it out with a poor touch. Hazard and Willian are too content with holding onto the ball in nothing areas. Kovacic and Jorge are being overrun by 4 players constantly around them; you'd think that would give the others enough room to do something.

He'd have been on much sooner if the rest had done their job better, I'm surprised he has been given time at only 1-nil up and the other team going closer to scoring than we have.

He has had two midfielders either side of him who have been reluctant to receive the ball in between the lines, which has meant he hasn't been able to pass and move into a new space to receive the ball again; the few times he tried it in the first half Barkley or RLC would play it backwards or out wide without any thought process.

Aina going against the best quality possible is all that matters, Christensen benefited from it and RLC only started looking like a player worth giving a chance to once he was at Crystal Palace. Your example could be used in any league with any team, if Aina was loaned to a Championship team they could also be easily losing to bigger and better teams or thrashing a smaller team; then he'd just be playing your scenario out with less quality around him. A young player won't make it under Sarri because he battled it out for draws every week, he's more likely to make it under Sarri if he's able to follow tactics and learn how to play a chess type of football in both attack and defence, if he is able to dictate his area of the pitch (something that they won't get a chance to do in a battling average team); which is something Barkley and RLC must learn quickly if they're to have any sort of future at our club.

Barkley and RLC are offering nothing in this game, they don't press without the ball and have zero creativity. They need to step it up if they're ever to be anything more than a squad player.

Nice play by Morata too, most strikers on a hattrick would have stuck a foot out to try and do something from themselves.

Pedro!!!

Kante and Barkley are our least creative midfielders which I think makes the players behind them hold the ball for longer to make something happen without going through them.

Morata!!!!

To be honest I think he's just a better player than Barkley, but if there's room to be made to accommodate Barkley it won't be in the games where teams sit deep against us.