Hanging on the lawn of Nottingham Forest, Liverpool lose two more points

THE Reds de Forest only needed one strike in the first half to open the scoring. They then needed a lot of energy to defend as they did, pushing Liverpool into mistakes and resisting their disjointed attacks. Mohamed Salah was transparent, Luis Diaz played backwards, Cody Gakpo did not get one on target – but he was not the only one -, and the annoyance began to emerge quite quickly, exacerbated by the permissive refereeing of Chris Kavanagh. Rarely this season, if ever, have Liverpool been so clumsy: 9 shots in the first half, zero on target.