In the end, Liverpool only have themselves to blame.

But in the end, they just couldn’t take their chances and maintain their intensity in the second-half.

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Atalanta kept their rigid defensive structure, and when Liverpool did breakthrough and create chances, they just couldn’t finish them off.



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The occasions when Liverpool did breakthrough Atalanta’s defence and looked like they might have a chance to score the players also made the wrong decisions.

Salah squandered a huge chance in the first-half, but there were other moments in the second-half, when Liverpool got into the final third and just made sloppy passes and didn’t look sharp enough.

Arguably, Liverpool’s best chance in the second-half fell to Cody Gakpo, who broke past the Atalanta defence but made a sloppy side pass in the penalty area that was behind Dominik Szoboszlai and wasted a great opportunity.