Chambers and Morton, the youngsters to blame for Liverpool's defeat to Strasbourg

Liverpool fans claimed to have accepted a friendly against Racing Strasbourg, a day after winning the Community Shield at Leicester's King Power Stadium by beating Manchester City 3-1, only to lose in 20 minutes by three goals.

With substitutes and youngsters, a very different line-up to the one used against City, the Reds lost to one of the worst clubs in France. Fans felt it was unnecessary to have organised this match, while others claimed what a mockery of the world it will be, even though the game was played with only youngsters and substitutes. The most criticised were 18-year-old Luke Chambers and 19-year-old Tyler Morton.

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The youngsters did not have their best performance of the night in the friendly match against Strasbourg, who came out with a starting line-up to face Anfield. With the final pre-season game before facing Fulham in the Premiere League, Liverpool closed this phase with a painful defeat for their fans, but understandable given the line-up, after beating Manchester United in the Community Shield away to Leicester.

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With two goals from Adrien Thomasson and one from Habib Diallo, Racing Strasbourg turned out their first-choice team in England for the friendly against Liverpool. While the Anfield side used an alternative line-up, totally different to that of Saturday night.

Line-up: Davies, Mabaya, Konate, Gomez, Chambers, Morton, Bajcetic, Milner, Elliot, Carvalho and Frauendorf. Substitutes: Mrozek, Phillips, Clark, Van der Berg, Musialowski, the latter four active in the second half of the match.