Aye, it frustrated me when somebody here blamed poor commitment from the players, implying that AVB had been let down. AVB didn't change anything, and set his stall out very rigidly to play on the counter attack. That's fine, and had the game ended 1-1 I'd have applauded the decision, but if you're relying on defensive solidity, and you're beaten by a piece of utter brilliance by David Silva, you can't really complain, to be honest.
I do think AVB should've switched it up, but I think the fact that Spurs took the lead as early as they did hurt the overall performance. Liverpool went behind tonight, lacked fight first half, and came out in the second with a renewed sense of purpose, a higher tempo, and around the 55 minute mark Brendan changed the tactics up and threw Suso in centrally.
