One thing that should be said - it's not like we were swinging crosses the whole game. Watch it back - we tried to play passes through the centre, behind their lines, etc. but the spaces were really tight with 10 fucking blue shirts in there lots of times. We lacked sharpness in the final third, but I don't think our game plan was to keep crossing. I genuinely think we really ran out of ideas as they were so deep there wasn't really much daylight in there to run or pass into. Gerrard resorting to long shots when he's not fired for ages is an indication of how desperate we got.
I was hoping our pressure would tell in the end and we would get lucky with a deflection, a slip (ahem), a ricochet, etc. but it never came. It's hard playing against a parked truck, but even harder playing a parked Chelsea truck.