Liverpool boss, Brendan Rodgers, believes that his side were completely outplayed by Swansea City in their Capital One Cup fourth round fixture on Wednesday.
The Northern Irishman, who was managing his first game for the Reds against his former club, saw his side trail by two goals as Chico Flores and Nathan Dyer put the Swans in a commanding position.
Although the home team pulled one back through Luis Suarez thirteen minutes from time, late scalp from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Michael-c25261 Laudrup’s unit, sending the defending champions crashing out of the competition.
It was also http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wales-c3041 team, having also been seconded by them in a league match in May.
Even though the Reds were heavily fancied to run away with the fixture given their sublime form in the cup competitions and the fact that they were playing at home, the Ulsterman revealed that the result did not come as a surprise to him.
The 39-year old said that Swansea were by far the better team on the day and that his side failed to get on the top of things right from the start.
“I thought the best team won. We were too slow, no tempo first half and Swansea were bright, creative and very good,” he told the reporters in an interview.
“It took the introduction of Steven [Gerrard] and Luis [Suarez] to up the tempo for us in the second half and then we looked like we could but just couldn’t get the goal and got done on two breakaways.”
The loss will further mount pressure on Rodgers, who has experienced a difficult start to life at Anfield so far.
The Merseyside club are tottering in the bottom half of the league table currently and have failed to assert their dominance at home.
The manager stated that the loss on Wednesday served as a reminder of how much work there is to be done before the club can go on and reclaim their lost glory in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749.
He also said that the fringe players in the squad need to rise to the challenge and deliver whenever they get the opportunity and bemoaned his lack of attacking options.
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