Liverpool exceeded everyone’s expectations in 2013-14, but the trend hasn’t carried into this season.
Liverpool is off to a slow start in 2014-15. The Reds have had problems scoring and preventing goals, as new players adjust to life at Anfield and returning ones try to match last season’s feats. Liverpool’s early season results — 10 points from seven Premier League games, three points from two Champions League game and one historically long shootout win in the League Cup — have many wondering aloud “what’s wrong with manager Brendan Rodgers’ Reds?”
Marcus Kwesi O’Mard, NESN.com’s soccer editor, and Chris Bascombe, football correspondent at English newspaper The Daily Telegraph, discuss Liverpool’s struggles and the road ahead. They talk about the toll early season injuries have taken, Mario Balotelli’s mixed start to his Liverpool career, criticism aimed at captain Steven Gerrard, upcoming Champions League games against Real Madrid and more.
Listen to it all in our latest soccer podcast.
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