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#3 AS Roma's tactics were simply suicidal
You just cannot deploy a high line when facing against THE Liverpool trio of Salah, Firmino and Mane. These lot can hit you on the counter and have done so on innumerable occasions this season. Still, AS Roma and Eusebio Di Francesco opted to play with a high line, giving all the more advantage to Liverpool's front three.
A high line works for a side that presses high up the pitch and has pacy fullbacks to get back in position when possession is lost. Aleksandar Kolarov and Alessandro Florenzi are the last full back pair to be given this job. Liverpool's strategy to apply the route one strategy took Roma's press out of the game and made it easy for the Liverpool forwards to get behind the defence.
The visitors astonishingly did not rectify their mistake in the second half and were punished for their lackadaisical defending by Mohamed Salah and co. Kolarov was horrendous defensively and the same could be said about Juan Jesus who simply had no clue about how to deal with the Egyptian.
AS Roma will have to be better positioned defensively to have any chance of repeating the Barcelona miracle again next week, this time against the Reds.
