Liverpool are simply a bad team
There has been a lot of soul searching surrounding Liverpool recently as the media try to get to the bottom of their malaise, but it is looking increasingly likely that the Reds are simply not a very good football team. For all of the talk of tactics and the absence of Steven Gerrard, Liverpool’s players just looked poor against Sunderland and may well have been dragged along kicking and screaming by Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge last season.