The biggest frustration with this Liverpool team right now is: if we play well, we can beat anyone on the planet. We proved that by beating Man City in October, which was our best performance of the season, but we haven’t raised our game enough in certain matches.
There are players who are putting in 6/10 displays each week, which can come down to a lack of confidence or loss of form. That can happen in football and you can sometimes carry one player and still win games, but you will always struggle when two or three are below par. Man City faced the same problem in recent home games with Brentford and Everton, where De Bruyne and Haaland were not at their best and the team suffered the consequences of that.
We can’t take teams for granted anymore. We’re going to Brighton at the weekend, who are a really strong side. They proved it against us last year and this year in the 3-3 draw. If we get past Wolves in the FA Cup, we will play Brighton again and that’s another tough draw on the horizon for us. None of the draws have been kind to us this season: we’ve got Madrid in the Champions League, we had City in the League Cup and a Premier League side in the FA Cup third round and, potentially, fourth round. You look at United, by contrast, and things have fallen nicely for them. Charlton at home in the League Cup and Reading at home in the FA Cup.
