I'm not banging a drum for Henderson at DM. To be clear I'm banging the drum that Henderson should at least be given another chance at CM. I believe (if you have to insist on a DM) that Gerrard could do that job, or at least sit deeper and dictate the game from there where as Henderson would be, as seen yesterday the box to box midfielder this Liverpool midfield have missed since Gerrard's legs have slowed down. Alas, I don't think he will get the chance to play there against Newcastle because Rodgers will play the immobile crab Lucas in that position. Just watch us lose territorial possession with Gerrard and Lucas.
Righting off Henderson's performance yesterday because it was Palace is nothing short of ridiculous. Perhaps we should right off Sturridge and Suarez's performance too, and chalk off both their goals?
In short, I'd like to give him another chance to settle in that position against a myriad of teams because he looked very assured in his natural position against lowly Palace.
So in this comment you go from saying he's better in the second (box-to-box) midfield position and would prefer Gerrard to play the DM midfielder, then you claim he was shown in a better light in his natural position? Can't have it both ways.
For my take on it, Henderson's best position would be the box-to-box player you describe, unfortunately he doesn't have the creativity or goal threat to actually make that position his own, if he did then he could perhaps develop into a useful player there. Similarly the same problem arises when you try to fit him in the defensive midfield role, because he doesn't have the strength, tackling ability or positional sense to fill that role effectively against anything attack with any teeth. To further demonstrate this watch our games when we've played Henderson and Allen in there, possibly our worst performances in central midfield in my recent memory.
This 7 tackle thing keeps cropping up though and from what the youtube vid shows you is there are not 7 "tackles" there are 5 blocks, 1 tackle and 1 in between, so be kind and say 2 tackles. If a block of a pass is now considered a tackle then I'm sorry I completely disagree with that description and full-backs must be doing well with their number of "tackles" per game from all the crosses they "tackle".
Also your assertion that we "lose territory" with "the immobile crab Lucas" couldn't be further from the truth in the first half of all our games, he's actually been winning possession on the edge of the opposition on many occasion. I don't know if you expect him to be winning possession in their box but there isn't much more territory for him to win than that. In the 2nd half against Palace we dropped deeper and deeper too and in fact that suited Henderson better because the game became congested around him and he wasn't caught out of position as much. When the game was stretched in the first half due to us attacking more he was caught completely cold on a good few occasions and was simply chasing shadows. The fact that Palace don't have nearly enough in their team to cause proper problems for our excellent 3 central defenders should not in anyway excuse the faults that were occurring in front of them. I also hold Gerrard responsible for this too by the way.
It would be very interesting to see what would come of playing Lucas with Henderson because I do think Gerrard is escaping a lot of criticism that is being shipped onto his midfield partners.
As for the Suarez and Sturridge statement, irrelevant because they've proven it against better opposition, the exact thing part of my argument against Henderson is based on.
It is also interesting to note that your assertion that Rodgers will resort to Lucas as soon as he's available. Either you believe you know better than our Manager or you accept that you're wrong, because I'm sure Lucas will come straight into the side too and rightly so.
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