Brendan Rodgers was highly critical of his defence after seeing Liverpool suffer a 3-1 defeat at the hands of Stoke City on Boxing Day.
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The Reds started the match well as Steven Gerrard converted his side's first penalty of the season in the second minute of the match.
It all went downhill from there though as Jon Walters quickly equalised for the Potters, with Kenwyne Jones putting Stoke ahead on the 12th minute - and Walters put the match out of sight with his second in the 49th minute.
Rodgers believes the Merseysiders' lackadaisical defending left them with no chance of leaving the Britannia with anything.
"It was a great start for us, getting our first penalty," the Ulsterman said after the match. "Coming away from home and starting like that was great, but we gave away poor goals. All three of them were actually quite straightforward to defend.
"The first one, Martin Skrtel slipped and was unfortunate but there were two goals where we have to do much better with and that was the disappointment really.
"We got into some good areas but when you come to places like here, you've got to defend better or else you get nothing and we deserved nothing because of that.
"Everyone knows the strengths of Stoke and they do it very well, but when you've prepared to deal with it's even more disappointing. It was a corner, a throw-in and a direct ball.
"Stoke don't quite get the credit they deserve. Tony Pulis has done a brilliant job here to keep them progressing. They do it very well. But from our perspective, it was poor defending."
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