Still got a buzz on from this afternoon. Great performance.
Like last season against Spurs, I had a lot of questions about us prior to the game and again we managed to answer them with some great football, a clean sheet and a great result.
I thought our midfield did great. We were outnumbered in midfield and yet we played through them with fast passes and made it look easy. Sterling and Henderson especially were terrific.
Balotelli impressed me with his hold up play and once he is match fit I think we will see a few goals to go with a good performance.
Defensively Sakho gave me a few early nightmares, but he settled down and while I am still not his greatest fan did well enough.
Moreno ... what a great first goal for the club. He took off like the road runner before firing his shot "Owenesque" into the corner of the net.
Absolutely delighted with the performance and the result.
The only downside was Sturridge. I thought he was lazy and he hasn't quite found his form yet. But it will come I am sure.
A quick mention for Allen too who I thought was excellent today.
Just reading that Sturridge was a down point s@int.
Na, not for me.
Great ball for first goal, superb cross for Balotelli of which Mario really should have scored, at least three really good efforts at goal and you're singling him out? Don't get that one mate but agree with the rest of the post.
Think Studge looked a lot more comfortable with an other striker and was able to find pockets of space easier whilst looking a little lighter due to a little weight being taken off his shoulders.
Shout for Hendo who I thought was very good with the dirty work and he was the one who orchestrated our first goal but he was nicking the ball all game.
I'd like us to give that back four a run out now as I think both Lovren and Sakho will improve with time and a settled back four will benefit Manquillo, Moreno and Mignolet. If we can get that foursome working as a solid unit it'll give us the solidity in defence that we craved last season.
Thought Manquillo got about his business well and wanted to win the ball high up and if Moreno didn't make up for his little mistake against City with the performance and goal then he definitely did with his celebration. We love all that.
Of course big shout to Raheem too and I said to a few mates at the start of the season (some of them blue) that he may well be our player of the season.
Mignolet made a decent save in the second half but may have come out quicker when Adebayour lobbed him and I remember him being indecisive in the first half when rushing out and conceding a corner. He done okay but he is still a while off making me believe that he is an obvious number one goalkeeper. I can't help think he'd look a lot less like our number one option if we had better competition than Brad Jones.
We got very lucky with the penalty decision but I'll have them all day. We get a lot of pens don't we?
Early days but I'm liking the look of us now with Allen providing some extra legs in midfield and Raheem doing his stuff from the tip of the diamond.
Good first eleven and a very useful bench. Onwards.
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