It could be easy to throw the baby out with the bathwater after Leeds United’s Crystal Palace collapse on Sunday. The emotional reaction after an experience as harrowing as that is to shun anything connected to it.
If you were asked at 4.30pm on Sunday which team you would pick for Liverpool’s visit, you wouldn't have been likely to say 11 changes, but there’s a good bet you were weighing up five or six. With some time to simmer down and reflect on the weekend’s events, it’s easier to remember how impressive the first half was on the back of last week’s Nottingham Forest win.
Javi Gracia, who has cut a calm and methodical figure since arriving, does not seem the type to bring about sweeping changes, especially after eight days between matches. There were calls from him for learning from Sunday’s mistakes.
