Brendan Rodgers Might Field Stronger LFC Lineups In Europa League Games

Brendan Rodgers admitted it was a lack of clinical finishing that prevented Liverpool from claiming a victory against FC Sion at Anfield on Thursday night.

“We’re disappointed with the result,” the manager reflected at his postgame press conference. “The story of the game was pretty obvious; we started the game well, got in front, gave away a poor goal and then created chances throughout the game and should have maybe won comfortably.

“But, unfortunately, we ended up drawing the game and we’re frustrated in the end.”

The Northern Irishman has used the Reds’ two games in the Europa League so far to offer younger players and those on the fringes of the first team an opportunity.

Having been held to draws in Bordeaux and then against Sion, he was asked whether even stronger XIs could be chosen as the race for qualification gathers pace.

“There may well be,” Rodgers responded. “For this game, of course there were a number of players we needed to be careful with — players like Daniel (Sturridge) that were coming back from injury.

“There’s no doubt we want to qualify and get through into the knockout stages of the tournament, but we’re picking teams to get the result.

“Away in Bordeaux, there were a lot of young players playing that were getting great experience, but we’re still going up in the games.

“Maybe that little bit of lack of experience at times has not seen us hang onto the lead. Tonight, really the story was about the chances. We had enough chances to win the game, and that was really disappointing.”