I don't think we played well. You can make an argument that Fred and Matic played well. You can even make an argument that we fought well, but the performance on the ball was not very good at all. No quality in that last third, and let's be honest, this isn't an isolated example. Rashford aside, our main issue is the last third! Never the right ball at the right time with the right weight. If it's the right pass, it's the wrong weight. if it's the right weight, it's the wrong time. Just the decision making is poor at the moment.
Disagree, its not just the last third, its mainly midfield.
Today the biggest difference between them and us was that
we could not transport the ball from defense into attack. Part of that is down to Liverpool being incredible in their high press, but most of it is down to our midfielders not being confident/able to to receive the ball, turn and deliver it forward.
We had so many situations where we had the ball in defense and it turned into a dangerous attack for them because our CB's had no passing options so they either hit it wide to a marked player, or hit it forward to another marked player who then overturned possession to them. If we had a quality DM that could drop down and just glide past their first line of press and hit a pass through their next line then their super high press would be incredible dangerous because then we could bypass 6-7 players in two moves.
We dont have that kind of player on the pitch today though. If we had for example Carrick we would have caused them a lot of problems