You have a point but I'm sure he lost sleep over the all round performance. And this just wasn't a one off. There were lacklustre performances against Man Utd and Sheffield.
I watched the match and I got the impression that Liverpool thought "oh, it's only Atalanta."
I watch a lot of Serie A and Atalanta are a very good team they switched off Saturday and got beaten by a lowly Cagliari side but gave Inter a very good run for their money in a 1 nil defeat.
Ominously...
I'll not get into a debate about this fear it will get carried away politically.
But there are two sides to this argument not just the one that the press are spoon fed by the DoT