... boohoo, boo hoo hoo - we were shite, we have thrown everything away, our forwards are shite, our team is shite, Klopp doesn't know what he's doing, Sturridge is shite - PLEASE, get a fucking grip of yourselves - WE DOMINATED THAT GAME - no, we didn't score, didn't get the breaks, had a ball cleared off the line, lterally! We fought, fought hard, from start to finish - the crowd were at it all match - HEADS HELD HIGH, even in defeat - bring on the Wolves, the Chelsea - LIVERPOOL 'TILL I DIE!!!
I admire your defiance, but we really didn't dominate that match at all.
We were better in the second half than the first, but possession of the ball (which we
did dominate) is nothing unless you actually use it to your advantage. Teams know now that they can give us the ball all day long in positions where we cannot hurt them. They know we will play it sideways and backwards more often than not because we seem not to have a single clue as to how to actually penetrate through them. They also know that they can use pace to hit us on the break. In short, they let us piss about with the ball to our hearts content knowing we didn't have the guile to get through. We will keep seeing teams do the exact same in the future because it's clear that it works against us time and again.
We dominated the ball in benign areas, but we certainly didn't dominate the game. Southampton dominated the entire tie with their tactics. They sussed us out perfectly and played us perfectly. I'm as passionate a Red as anyone, but lets be honest here. Kidding ourselves doesn't help us to pick ourselves up and move forward. We could have had more luck in this game.; few things actually ran for us, but we were beaten by a side who have done their homework on us and played it accordingly.
I'm not trying to be negative here either. I like to look at the positives in life, but I also think it wise to call it as it is sometimes. I think Klopp has too much quality for him not to work this out, but as it stands, we've been sussed and teams will continue to play this way against us until we suss out how to beat such clearly effective tactics. Until then, expect us to have the vast majority of the ball, but most of it stood in front of a well drilled ten man defence who are waiting to press us when it matters then hit us on the break.