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title: "Liverpool midfield made zero successful tackles against Red Star"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Rebecca Hawksworth"
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published: "2018-11-07T16:20:52Z"
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# Liverpool midfield made zero successful tackles against Red Star

A shocking statistic from Liverpool’s defeat to Red Star Belgrade in the Champions League on Tuesday night reveals that the side’s midfield trio made zero successful tackles in the game, the [Daily Mail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6363441/Milner-Lallana-Wijnaldum-0-tackles-shock-loss-Red-Star.html) reports.

Liverpool fell to a 2-0 defeat in Serbia with an all-round dismal display.

Jurgen Klopp opted to play James Milner, Adam Lallana and Gini Wijnaldum as a midfield three for the game but between them the trio completed zero successful tackles according to [the official UEFA website](https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/season=2019/matches/round=2000980/match=2025106/statistics/index.html?iv=true)and stats website [WhoScored](https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1328412/LiveStatistics/Europe-UEFA-Champions-League-2018-2019-FK-Crvena-Zvezda-Liverpool).

Milner and Wijnaldum played the full 90-minutes, whilst Lallana, who was returning to the starting XI after an injury lay-off, was taken off by the German boss in the 79th minute.

![Srdjan Stevanovic/Getty Images Sport](https://cdn.readeverything.co/readliverpoolfc/2018/11/1058413110.jpg)

Red Star scored twice in the opening 30 minutes of the game to condemn the Reds to defeat, despite a slightly improved second-half performance from Klopp’s side.

Klopp was asked post-match to ‘put his finger on what went wrong’, to which he replied:

> I only have 10 fingers.

Liverpool now occupy second place in Group C with six points, level with leaders Napoli. Paris Saint-Germain have five points, and Red Star sit bottom of the group with four points.