This was 2 valuable points dropped in our title race. With us now 7 points behind Leicester, it is getting more difficult to win the league now. This match proves we lack the cutting edge and experience to win big matches. Our failure to beat any big teams except for the out-of-sorts Emirates Marketing Project this season has cost us many valuable points. The fact we failed to beat our direct rivaIs, Leicester, is the reason why we are 7 points behind them now. Despite this, hope we will still target to win the rest of our remaining matches.
Well done to Kane for scoring our only goal to save us a point. It was a well taken goal which was typical of Kane this season. Too bad we couldn't go on to win the match. Despite his goal, Kane also wasted 2 good chances to score in the first half. If we had scored first, I think we could have go on to win the match. Eriksen did well to create the goal for Kane. But was very annoyed Eriksen didn't even hit the target from his freekick late in the game. I think maybe someone like Kane, Alli or Lamela should take over the free kick duties as Eriksen seems to have forgotten how to score from free kicks for sometime now.
Our midfield of Dembele, Dier and Alli were poor in the first half but improved in the second half. Dembele could have scored the all-important winning goal late in the match but his shot was too weak and straight at the goalie. I think we badly missed the influence of Lamela in both the midfield and attacks. His replacement, Son, had a poor game, not only wasting a good chance to score but almost scored an own goal and his mistake almost let Liverpool score as well. Lamela's tenacity in defending and creativity in attacks could have really helped us in this match. Chadli too had a chance to score but he was too slow to react. He could have passed the ball instead of dribbling too much and losing the ball in the process.
A bit disappointed with our defence in this match. We not only conceded an easy goal but almost let Liverpool score 3 or 4 more as well. In fact, we were lucky Liverpool didn't make use of all the chances they had. Lloris had to make 2 or 3 good saves to keep us in the game. Felt our defence was a bit shaky in the first half but they did improve greatly in the second half. Maybe we couldn't handle the pressure to win. But the goal we conceded could be costly to us as we have let Leicester extend the lead over us.
Just imagine, if we had beaten Leicester at home, we would be only 1 point behind them now. Instead, we lost and are now 7 points behind them. We have only ourselves to blame for not beating them at home. It has cost us dearly in our title race. Let's hope someone somewhere can do us a favour by beating Leicester and help us in our title race !
