That tricky third album - and we've lost our inspirational lead-guitarist/singer...
Awful.
My ratings:
Mignolet; 4 Nowhere in that first 15 minutes.
Manquillo: 3 Was he injured or just dire?
Moreno: 5 Got forward in the first half when no-one else from the back four did.
Lovren: 5 Some interceptions, some misses. Needs to sort him and Sakho out over who goes for what.
Skrtel: 3 No excuses, Just pants
Lucas: 4 Better second half than first after he was substituted.
Gerrard: 3 Pirlo? More like Pingu.
Henderson; 4 Worst game in a Liverpool shirt for eighteen months.
Sterling: 6 Too young to carry this team.
Borini: 4 Effort but not one iota of quality.
Balotelli: 4 Would be easy to say quality but no effort, but that's not fair. Just never got the ball into him apart from the goal.
Subs:
Lallana: 6 Why did we start without him?
Sakho: 4 Should have started ahead of Skrtel, but that doesn't say much.
Lambert: 3 Did we give him one cross? Replaced Borini and was expected to run down the channels like him.
Rogers: 2 Be big enough to admit that you totally ****ed-up today, Brendan. Clueless, soulless formation. And we can't afford to play Gerrard and Lucas anymore. Outthought by Allardyce. FFS.