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The thing is, we conceded almost straight away both times. We have been dealing well with these situations up until today, but it has cost us and we have to do better. The manager also, by the way, don't disagree with any of that one, Liverpool didn't defend those situations well at all. He was asked in this press conference about the rotated line-up and how much that may be contributed to the results. He said, but we have done this not just today, we have been doing it all season, in all the games we have been playing in midweeks. I think we have been changing at least four, sometimes five, six or seven players because the schedule that we have is impossible to maintain with always the same starting eleven. And I think we have been dealing with these rotations well. I trust the squad to sustain the level and I don't think that was the main reason why we lost. I think some of the players that didn't play the weekend played a good game, but we have to look more into how we can see that those goals. Goes on to say, we've reinforced a lot of the defensive play situations and we are doing very well with these in the Premier League, but today they have cost us. We know that the Fenerbahce are strong there, especially with Meriki and with Lukaku and with the centre backs. But maybe the last goal is the only one that is because they are strong in there or that they are tall. In the other situations, we have to control those better. And yeah, it's hard to really disagree with the manager in terms of any of that. He's right. Liverpool defending for all three goals was, well, comical to say the least, really. I know there's been loads of reaction from loads of the team on that already. Don't have to go into it too much. But yeah, the manager is basically putting down those soft moments and those defensive issues as the reason why Liverpool lost. And he's quite comfortable in the fact that the team, etc, that he picked was a good enough one and should have won if not for those situations. And again, really hard to argue with them. Everyone wants the best 11 on the pitch all the time. We always say that. I was on the watch along yesterday and it was the same thing. Where's Izaak? Where's Wirtz? Etc, etc. It's tough. You can't play every single game and you need those ones who step in to step up basically.