I thought Semedo was mostly ok yesterday, but was being swamped as the midfield weren’t much cop at stopping the attacks coming through. There was some interplay in the second half involving Vitinha and someone else that I thought was part of the reason Nuno bought him, one touch pass and move that brought the ball from near our corner flag up to the half way line, was very slick.
realistically, one of our players gave away the first goal when it was even, and then we couldn’t cope with Liverpool’s fast breaks that carved us open, and their finishing was excellent is why we lost - the poor performance of our midfield in either creating chances for our front three to break of create, or to stop the waves of attacks onto our defence is my big concern.
just on cybers Traore point - he and Neto were our only creative points last night (5 key passes in total, all from those two), and the majority of the crosses went to donk who was our only good header of the ball - but Traore gives us more than just that, his link play was good last night and he won quite a bit in the air.
I thought Traore was one of the few that did ok yesterday - Marcal played well, Traore and Neves I thought played ok. I was disapointed in Pod, I don’t think he really got into the game one chip aside - but again, I feel the blame was really with the midfield.
