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Balotelli: Rodgers insisted on playing him as a lone striker, which is not the Italian’s best position. Such statistics demonstrated his importance to the team, convincing Rodgers that he was right to trust the Brazilian to central zone of the pitch together. But if he can...

It was not only the fact that the 2014 Premier League champions failed to win a trophy last time around; it was also the manner of their league title defence that concerned the club’s hierarchy.