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It's a poor result but I'm not sure we could have done much more. We had about 30 shots, 20 corners and 70% possession. It's pretty hard to play against and through a team willing to place 11 men behind the ball. We had to shoot a lot from long range as they were camped in our penalty box. The early decision not to give the goal was a terrible decision. Yeah we should be beating Stoke at Anfield anyway but in these games often the hardest goal to score is the first. If you can go 1-0 ahead it changes the whole game as Stoke would have had to attack which in turn opens up more space for us to exploit and chances are we would have scored a few more. I have no doubt that had the goal been given we would have won very comfortably.

