James Milner rued the opportunities Liverpool missed as they were held to a goalless draw away at Newcastle United on Wednesday night.
The Reds took a point from their final fixture of 2020 after squandering chances in front of goal and being denied multiple times by stopper Karl Darlow at St. James’ Park.
Regardless, the reigning champions will end the year top of the Premier League and three points clear of second-placed Manchester United.
Is that a rare night where you just weren’t clinical enough?
I think that’s pretty spot on really. I think the performance was pretty good, bouncing back from the second half in the last game, which wasn’t particularly good, and then putting in a pretty good performance tonight. We created enough chances, [were] solid at the back, any balls that popped out we were winning. But a mixture of good goalkeeping, defending, a bit of bad luck and maybe not taking our chances well enough was the difference.
If you were looking for areas of improvement from Sunday night – the fact you did create more opportunities here…
For sure, I think it was a big improvement. We’ve come up against two very stubborn teams, given everything to get the points. So at least we performed better, unfortunately it wasn’t good enough for the three points but we’ve got to keep pushing and if we play like that [then] more often than not we’ll get the three points.
