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It is the pink after Liverpool have been beaten 1-0 by London City Lionesses.

I am Nia Lackinson and with me I've got John Gibbons Emma Sanders, Amy Lawrence and Philippa Smallwood to talk this one through

Ultimately, Philippa,

Liverpool went very good. They went very good first half. They were a little bit better second half but they

lose the second half by virtue of the penalty that is conceded it was not that

good a performance from the Reds. There's no there's no sugarcoat in this there's no

nice way to go about it little

pull where not as we'd hope no I mean as you've mentioned there I thought we were

about a second half but it's just disappointing for me because I felt it was like 80 minutes before we even like created anything of any note where we look like we could possibly get back into the game and I just don't I mean I don't like making excuses for players and I'm not going to do

I'm not going to sugar coat what we just watched there that was really

really disappointing I expected a lot more from us I expected just to be at the races from the first whistle.

I expected us to put them under pressure and for me we just didn't do that.

We looked very tentative.

We gave the ball away countless times. We just

I don't know, I don't look sure on the ball as what they did for me and I just I don't know I'm struggling to find positives out of it to be honest.

Yeah.

My main positive, John, and you've got to be careful that you've

phrased this, is I actually felt every substitution made Liverpool a bit better.

Like one of the things that I took from the game was that every single time there was a replacement I thought

well that it literally looks like it's both gone up in that position and it's

also gone up for the collective that's a bit of a sad state of affairs really what

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