improvement from his Liverpool players after describing the Reds'
display at Newcastle as 'way below our best'.
Hodgson admitted he was left angry by the manner of his side's 3-1
defeat in the north east and held a team meeting at Melwood this
morning in which he called for a quick return to winning ways.
"I was saddened and certainly angry with our performance because in
recent weeks we have shown we are capable of playing good football and
we were looking like a very solid and strong unit," Hodgson told
Liverpoolfc.tv.
"Even though we got back into the game against Newcastle and then had
chances to go in front, because of our capitulation at the end I still
wasn't happy with the performance.
"I don't think the level of performance was what I was expecting right
from the first minute to the 90th minute. There were far too many poor
performances and as a result that led to a poor team performance.
"We've had quite a long get-together with the team on that subject and
everyone agreed with me that it was a performance way below our best
and we can't afford those type of performances.
"We had a few right at the start of the season which put us on the back
foot and then some good performances got us onto the front foot and
that's where we have got to stay.
"We know we have to improve our performances away from home. There is
an element of confidence, we can't deny that, but basically I don't
think we've been strong enough physically and strong enough mentally
away from home.
"If we are going to improve upon our woeful away record it will be
because we have become more physically and mentally stronger. We have
to adopt a harder core to our performance and make us harder to beat
and then we won't concede the type of goals when all the opposition
goalkeeper has to do is kick a long ball into the heart of our defence
and then there's a goal chance.
"We have got to make certain we stop any vulnerability with that simplistic type of play.
"We have got to work hard on the training ground and to be fair to the
players, even after a very long meeting today, a long post-match
analysis and quite a lot of critical words aimed at the team's
direction, out on the field they worked extremely hard and I think
that's what will get us through bad periods in the long run."
I am angry with you Roy!
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