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Ex-Liverpool boss Evans raps "negative" Rodgers over Basel tactics

Former Liverpool boss Roy Evans has criticised Brendan Rodgers over his tactics for last night's draw with Champions League opponents Basel. The result saw Liverpool dumped out of the Champions League last night.

"The way we approached the game was a bit negative for me. We started the game - a game we needed to win - with a really low tempo. We didn't put them under pressure and I'm thinking, 'go for them'," Evans told talkSPORT.

"If you need to win, why not put them under pressure from the word go? We waited until we were down to ten men with 20 minutes to go and then we throw everything at them. We nearly got there but why not do it from the start? That's the only gripe I've got.

"You can be too tactical, you can over think the whole thing. Sometimes you need to think, 'OK, we need to win this one game, go out and go for it'."

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