The problem is their plan A was burn out the first 25 minutes... when you expend your energy it won't magically come back, using up massive amounts of energy early will make any tactic so much harder now regardless of if it's offensive of put 11 behind the ball and pray it doesn't get worse. That half a second slower to close someone down makes all the difference.
Like right now the Liverpool midfield is sitting back in a line and no one was closing around the half way line at all, they were just waiting for them to come to them, first 25 mins they'd sprint at anyone with the ball with 2 or 3 players and win it back.
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