Brendon Rodgers Devastated After Loss

Brendon Rodgers Devastated After Loss[/b]

When Liverpool lost to Chelsea, they lost control over the Premier League title race. With a draw against Crystal Palace on Monday, their Premier League title hopes took another hit and it looks like Manchester City will cruise to the 2013-14 Premier League title.

Manchester City, they have got two home games now, two tough games, but we needed to win it. I think Manchester City will go on and win their two games and they will be champions. But for us it’s been an outstanding season up until now. For us to get 81 points, it’s a great achievement. We’re obviously disappointed now but we’ll go again. We have got a great game at Anfield now to finish the season and we’ll keep looking to build and develop what we’re doing said Rodgers.

Of course there is a set of circumstances where Liverpool could win, but it involves Manchester City stumbling in their final two games. While Liverpool will still have an outside chance of clinching the title on the final weekend of the season, Rodgers said he believed City would be champions of England for the second time in three years after his team collapsed late on in a dramatic game.

Rodgers told media in his post-match interviews that Liverpool players were devastated and crushed by the loss, particularly due to the fashion in which it happened. It's very disappointing. We can analyze it a look at it and find lots of things wrong, but our offensive game was outstanding, said Rodgers. To get three goals against a team that is set up so well was fantastic, but it was a killer blow to only take a point. Rodgers accepted his team's defensive flaws caught up with them in a frantic finale at Selhurst Park, but tried to put a positive gloss on a night that left some of his players in tears at the final whistle.

For us, it has been an outstanding season up to now, he said. For us to get to 81 points is a great achievement. We are obviously disappointed right now, but we will go again. We have a great game at Anfield [against Newcastle] now to finish the season, and we will keep looking to build and develop what we are doing. The dressing room is very quiet because, for 75 minutes, we put in an outstanding performance.

The quality of our football, the penetration, the relentlessness of our attack was fantastic for 75 minutes. Maybe we got carried away, thinking we could get more than three goals, but the important thing was to win and we didn't do that. We are very disappointed how we conceded the three goals. It was real poor defending that cost us there. They showed Great Spirit to come back into it, but the comfort we had in the game and the quality we showed to get to 3-0 up you have to manage the game better than that.