Five Uncomfortable Truths From Liverpool’s Istanbul Collapse
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5-second readWhat Liverpool’s Fenerbahce Defeat Really Exposed Losing 3-2 away to Fenerbahce in the Champions League was always going...
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Losing 3-2 away to Fenerbahce in the Champions League was always going to sting, but it is the manner of the defeat that leaves us with more questions than answers about where Andoni Iraola’s side currently stands.
Watching the game back, our take is that this was not simply a bad night. It was a collection of individual and tactical problems arriving at the same moment, in the same stadium, against a Turkish side who were sharper, braver and more clinical than Liverpool all evening.
Liverpool journalist David Lynch, reviewing the match on his own YouTube channel, called it the worst combination of performance and result of Iraola’s time in charge so far.
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