Originally Posted by
Perumthachan
playing our way and scoring three goals against liverpool at anfield is, on any day, a guarantee enough for a win... but what happened is, our back-line couldn't handle the pressure... no use saying lack of kompany or fatigue or anfield crowd hostility or anything, those would just be lame excuses... the truth is our for 10 minutes our back-line failed to cross the ball over to the front-line and paid the price... a loss was inevitably supposed to happen... but when it happens against a top 6 team, the reverberations are bound to be critical, thats all... 15 points ahead (at that time) i would rather city play hard and lose marginally against liverpool or spurs rather than crumble without a fight in later stages of CL... there is no need to change the tactics or anything, just have to be a bit more aware of opponent positions and if, nothing else, go pragmatic rather than heroic...