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Liverpool FC – Brendan Rodgers Keeps Making the Same Mistakes
It’s not a disaster losing when visiting the toughest stadium the Premier League has to offer, but Liverpool should have done more than look incompetent on offense. Brendan Rodgers is fair to expect more from players like Daniel Sturridge and Philippe Coutinho, but more than anything, his tactical mistakes, coming in the same form for a second consecutive match, might have cost his team a better result or at least a more respectable performance.
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Liverpool FC – Daniel Sturridge Needs a Striker Next to Him
Despite the enthusiasm, Raheem Sterling doesn’t create another SAS partnership with Daniel Sturridge. Liverpool, as their second half of an opening win clearly showed, need another striker to make their best formation work. Rickie Lambert might not be the best solution, but for now he’s the best solution for a dual-striker partnership the club has.
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Liverpool FC – Philippe Coutinho & Daniel Sturridge Headed into a Big Season
Friendly matches mean nothing, but obviously Liverpool have more than just one thing to be pleased and confident about. More than anything and anyone, next season will probably be about Philippe Coutinho and Daniel Sturridge carrying this team, hoping that the end result will be just as good as in the previous one.
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Liverpool FC – Luis Suarez Doesn’t Have to Score Every Time
For whatever reason, a comfortable win over a relegated bound team turned into a tense affair late for Liverpool at home in Anfield. Luis Suarez, trying too hard to find the goal instead of simply letting the match come to him might have been the biggest proponent of that potential disastrous ending.
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Liverpool FC – Brendan Rodgers Needs to Stop Messing Up Tactics
Not for the first time this season, Brendan Rodgers and Liverpool have dropped points they really shouldn’t have because the manager seems to be blinded by the potency of his strikers. It’s great to have Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge to count on, but teams are usually defined by the quality of their midfield and defense, and not just by what’s in the frontline.
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Liverpool FC – Philippe Coutinho Has to Start Scoring
There isn’t a shortage of players who can score for Liverpool, especially with Daniel Sturridge coming back from injury to partner Luis Suarez, carrying on with his incredible scoring streak. But while in some matches the two can handle the demands on their own, there comes a point when someone else, like Philippe Coutinho, needs to put in a hand as well.
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Liverpool FC – Iago Aspas & Resting Stars is All That Mattered
Obviously, Brendan Rodgers wanted to avoid the embarrassment of losing to Oldham in the FA Cup for a second straight season. He managed to get by that difficulty comfortably enough (2-0), but it seemed like finally giving Luis Suarez and Philippe Coutinho some rest and on the way getting Iago Aspas to actually score a goal might have been just as important as Liverpool winning the match.
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Liverpool FC – Philippe Coutinho Doing Everything But Score
A new year and an end to a short losing streak that’s not the end of the world. Liverpool got Luis Suarez scoring again with a beautiful free kick, Daniel Agger back in the lineup, Steven Gerrard closer to full fitness while Philippe Coutinho continues to improve, only the goals aren’t coming for the Brazilian.
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Liverpool FC – Luis Suarez Needs Better Players
Instead of focusing on how the referee cost them at least a point, Liverpool and Brendan Rodgers should focus on how to improve as a team around Luis Suarez, doing everything he can to ignore the bias from officials and two and three players marking him, only to let Philippe Coutinho and Raheem Sterling mess up the glorious chances he set up for them.
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The Day After – Liverpool vs Cardiff
Despite not playing a perfect match, it’s hard to find someone displeased with the current situation: Brendan Rodgers finding the right tactics, Luis Suarez signed for much longer and can’t stop scoring and Liverpool are back on top of the Premier League, which at Christmas provides a pretty good indicator to who wins the championship at the end of the season.