That crash sound you could hear immediately after the game was the hopes and dreams of millions of optimistic Liverpool fans slamming back down to earth. Talk of league titles, huge margins of victories, goals galore, three points in the bag (as those around us also dropped points) were the pre-match vogue on here, and elsewhere. Except we all forgot one thing: breaking down a stubborn, deep-lying defence has been our Achilles heel for a long time now, and unless we come up with a system and set of players to conquer this issue we’ll end up beating all the teams that try to attack against us; and come unstuck against those who let us play.

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