I think Maxi always plays better in an attacking formation.
Last season Maix's best performance was when Babel Gerrard Aquilani were all on the pitch, which for me is of no coincidence his best games until yesterday was gainst Burnley and Porrtsmouth last year when we were attacking teams, his link up play and vision in them two games was excellent and I can remember saying so in his player thread.
The reason Maxi looked a lot brighter yesterday was simple he's much more effective in the opponents half higher up the pitch than he is when asked to drop deep, the whole of team was far more advanced yesterday than we have seen all season from defense to midfield to attack which I think helped Cole, Maxi, Gerrard and Torres all have a greater impact on the game.
The one thing I'm not going to get excited about is the result as Blackburn were as far away from a Big Sam team yesterday as we have been a top 4 side so far this season, It was as though they had inherited our tactics of sitting deep and saying come on break us down, they afforded us far too much time & Space and are the worst team I've seen at Anfield this season, margingly worse than what we were against Blackpool.
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