Yep - the team should have performed a lot better regardless of the managerial decisions, which were poor. The first 2 goals consist of three major mistakes, Sktel's header, Gomez being beaten to the ball and Lovren being Lovren. Skrtel and Lovren in particular are capable of much better and we were efficiently punished for those mistakes. Not long after half-time, in which he finally gets a chance to reorganise and go again, Coutinho goes and gets himself sent off making the come back impossible and reducing spirits even further.
The players deserve the majority of the grief from yesterdays performance. That's not to absolve Rodgers. I doubt he had the capability of turning the match around anyway, but he was certainly let down drastically today, and the fans who paid £50 to watch that shower of shite were the real victims.