RETURN to your seats and assume the brace position – Liverpool’s season is caught up in extreme turbulence.
While it is still too early to say the campaign has crashed and burned following a fourth successive defeat, the path of this particular flight is heading perilously close to a disastrous ending.
Today you should have been reading about the Reds restoring a sense of hope, enjoying the analysis of a victory that could have restored momentum, spread belief and fired optimism once more.
Maddeningly, though, we are pouring over the wreckage of another dispiriting defeat that was largely self inflicted; of all the reverses that have been suffered in the past three weeks, this one, arguably, hurt the most.
From Fabio Aurelio’s glaring miss just before half-time to the Keystone Cop defending in the dying moments, Liverpool fluffed a fabulous opportunity to silence the doubters and Lyon gleefully accepted the invitation to inflict more misery.
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