Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson insists he will not be forced into a knee-jerk reaction after the club's shock Carling Cup defeat to Northampton.
Wednesday's penalty defeat was the first time the Reds had lost to a fourth-tier team in the League Cup and was their worst result since an FA Cup third-round loss against non-league Worcester City in 1959.
Hodgson made 11 changes for the game from the weekend's 3-2 reverse at Manchester United but the side still included first-team players like Daniel Agger, David Ngog, Ryan Babel and Lucas Leiva.
He now insists he will give the players involved a chance to redeem themselves and will not wield the axe immediately.
The Reds boss said: "I honestly believed with the players we had on the field, players with international and Premier League experience, we would be good enough to win the game.
"They have to do a lot of work to get themselves back into favour and I will learn an awful lot from this defeat about an awful lot of people.
Early doors
"It is early doors for some of them - some are still quite young and were making their debuts - but I don't want to be drawn into making a bold statement.
"It is September. We have got this group of players until January minimum, maybe even longer.
"I am certainly not prepared to make the statement that I am going to suddenly start wielding axes.
"A lot of players will be bitterly disappointed they didn't take the chance they were given but they'll get other chances I'm sure.
"The players themselves will be looking to take responsibility for their individual performances.
"Those that come to the conclusion 'I could have done a bit more' I am sure will look in the mirror and take responsibility for that.
"But it is one game and there are lots more to play. I would expect these players to learn from their performance, bounce back and, if they are going to be Liverpool players, to kick on from this very low point in everyone's career."
Hodgson must now pick his troops up for the visit of Sunderland on Saturday, with the Reds needing a result after picking up just five points from their opening five top-flight games.
He added: "It is a tough period to live and work through but we will survive it and we will get better.
"Results colour everything. You get a bad result and everyone has played badly, everything was wrong.
"There are going to be lots of other games this season where people will be expecting us to win and we don't and there will be games where people maybe don't expect us to do very well and we do well - that is the nature of football.
"There are negative headlines after the Northampton game but let's hope on Saturday we can come out and give a good performance and put all those headlines behind us."
FFS Roy your not at Fulham now. You are the LFC manager! Could you imagine Shanks or Rafa coming out with this?
That's the nature of football" Is he having a laugh? That's the nature of mid table football! Liverpool FC should not be looking to lose many games and win games unexpectedly. He has absolutely no idea of what's expected of him, hence his negative, low expectation tactics. Wake up Roy!
Wednesday's penalty defeat was the first time the Reds had lost to a fourth-tier team in the League Cup and was their worst result since an FA Cup third-round loss against non-league Worcester City in 1959.
Hodgson made 11 changes for the game from the weekend's 3-2 reverse at Manchester United but the side still included first-team players like Daniel Agger, David Ngog, Ryan Babel and Lucas Leiva.
He now insists he will give the players involved a chance to redeem themselves and will not wield the axe immediately.
The Reds boss said: "I honestly believed with the players we had on the field, players with international and Premier League experience, we would be good enough to win the game.
"They have to do a lot of work to get themselves back into favour and I will learn an awful lot from this defeat about an awful lot of people.
Early doors
"It is early doors for some of them - some are still quite young and were making their debuts - but I don't want to be drawn into making a bold statement.
"It is September. We have got this group of players until January minimum, maybe even longer.
"I am certainly not prepared to make the statement that I am going to suddenly start wielding axes.
"A lot of players will be bitterly disappointed they didn't take the chance they were given but they'll get other chances I'm sure.
"The players themselves will be looking to take responsibility for their individual performances.
"Those that come to the conclusion 'I could have done a bit more' I am sure will look in the mirror and take responsibility for that.
"But it is one game and there are lots more to play. I would expect these players to learn from their performance, bounce back and, if they are going to be Liverpool players, to kick on from this very low point in everyone's career."
Hodgson must now pick his troops up for the visit of Sunderland on Saturday, with the Reds needing a result after picking up just five points from their opening five top-flight games.
He added: "It is a tough period to live and work through but we will survive it and we will get better.
"Results colour everything. You get a bad result and everyone has played badly, everything was wrong.
"There are going to be lots of other games this season where people will be expecting us to win and we don't and there will be games where people maybe don't expect us to do very well and we do well - that is the nature of football.
"There are negative headlines after the Northampton game but let's hope on Saturday we can come out and give a good performance and put all those headlines behind us."
FFS Roy your not at Fulham now. You are the LFC manager! Could you imagine Shanks or Rafa coming out with this?
That's the nature of football" Is he having a laugh? That's the nature of mid table football! Liverpool FC should not be looking to lose many games and win games unexpectedly. He has absolutely no idea of what's expected of him, hence his negative, low expectation tactics. Wake up Roy!
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