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It was a bad time to concede (as I guess all goals you let in are) because we were the better side at that point. For us to turn it around at that stage, we would have needed improvement going forward and not to make anymore defensive mistakes. Honestly, we got neither. On 56' we dropped the pistol and instead pulled out the shotgun and blew off our foot. Davis in the side in place of the suspended Schneiderlin, took down a long pass in the box superbly and cut the ball back but Debuchy had taken the sting out of the cross and would have been able to swing his left foot at the ball and clear the danger but Szczesny intervened and poked it straight to Tadic who probably couldn't believe his luck. 2-0.

Strangely enough though, I thought we had defended pretty well for the most part given the context of the game. It was our lowest amount of possession in the Premier League since August 2003. We also conceded the most amount of shots in one game since that same time period. I suppose you'd need a breakdown of where those Liverpool shots were taken to get a better idea of how we defended but we kept them down to the Philippe Coutinho strike, which was a very good goal as well I should add.