5 reasons why Liverpool are set to fail this season

#2 No winning mentality

UEFA Champions League Final - AC Milan v Liverpool — Liverpool have been starved of success for over a decade

What does it take to win the English Premier League? What does it take to get over the line and lift the UEFA Champions League trophy? What level of mental strength does such success at the very top require? Unfortunately for Liverpool, too few of their current squad have any idea what it takes.

There are few players in the current Liverpool dressing room with major honours, and until the side get used to the mental and physical aspects of seeing a campaign in any competition through to a successful end, they will remain more and more likely to fall short when it matters. In the last decade, the club have only won the League Cup, once.

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And to add to the misery, players like Coutinho, Sturridge and Mignolet carry the pain of missing out on the Premier League title in 2013/14 when the pressure of finishing the job proved to be too tough for Brendan Rodgers' side.

The nature of that disappointment will haunt the club and its fans for years to come, and as similar challenges for major honours slip further away, the harder it will become.

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Edited by Aakanksh Sanketh