Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said his team lacked the killer instinct after performing poorly for the second straight game in a 1-0 Premier League defeat at Hull City on Tuesday.
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A Michael Dawson goal put the hosts ahead in the first half, as the central defender made the most of a terrible offside trap to head home a cross from the right.
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Although Liverpool pushed forward in numbers as the match wore on they never looked like breaking down Hull’s massed defensive ranks.
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“We just lacked that killer instinct in the final third. We are disappointed with the goal,” Rodgers told the BBC.
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“Apart from that we didn’t have too many chances against us. It was poor defending from us. We didn’t come out together and Dawson is onside.
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“We were never enough of a threat. It’s been a mark of the season really, in that final third we have struggled.”
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Liverpool’s troubles in front of goal have been endemic throughout the campaign following the departure of Luis Suarez to Barcelona and Daniel Sturridge’s continuing injury woes that have kept him out for most of the season.
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