We did enough to win the game but it was Mignolet who actually cost us the game in the end. I know he made a critical save at 1-1, but it was his weak effort on a corner that saw us concede in the first place. His distribution, particularly in the first half, was terrible and overall he really just made that 1 save and thats about it.
Plenty of chances to score, not just Coutinho, although really that should've been a goal. Just needed to pick his spot and put it in. Instead he tries to slide it past at the near post which was probably the narrowest angle he had and the poorest choice to take. But Sturridge, Milner, Can all had chances and Coutinho had other chances too. The positives were that Sakho was overall decent, Moreno was outstanding, Ings showed character and a bit of fight and when he came on I thought Lallana was quite good.
We need to press harder and work a bit harder off the ball to generate some movement and tempo in our game. When we get our passing going and there are those quick interchanges, we look dangerous and capable of carving teams apart. Unfortunately, those moments of excellence punctuate very long periods of unimaginative inept play riddled with unforced errors and a lack of game intelligence. We are our own worst enemies at the moment.
