Very flat today, once you give a team like that a soft early goal, they were always going to sit deep. The front three looked like strangers, was a gamble playing all three that didn't come off. If they hadn't scored early maybe we would have grown into the game, but lallana, Markovic and. Balotelli all seemed to be moving into the same space, no real under standing yet. Was a bit disappointed that Brendan didn't change it at half time. To be fair the ball didn't really drop for us today at there were a couple of deflections that on another day would have led to goals. But we just didn't create enough chances.
The only thing worse than our performance was that of Lee Mason, I hate him as a ref. villa did everything they could to wind balotelli up and Mason let it happen. Mind you was he the ref that let Suarez get stamped on I think.
Anyway move on. Early days for these players, hope Rodgers has learned from this too.