Win's a win. Take it, and run!
Some positives in the performance, and still some negatives. I think we all know the positives - Lallana, Henderson, Gerrard in an advance role.
This performance also raised a lot of questions for me.
The obvious one was the confidence Mignolet has. He has come under a lot of pressure and been under the spotlight for some time now. I thought he was good now against West Brom. Any question that was asked of him during the game, he answered. he even came & punched 2 corners! it was interesting listening to Carlo Cudicini yesterday morning saying how when a goalie makes a big save & the ball goes out for a corner, they are usually so high on confidence from that, that they will always go to catch or punch the resulting corner, just from sheer adrenaline. That had me thinking that perhaps keepers usually will only come for a cross from a corner if they have some confidence, so the fact that Mignolet came for 2, while seemingly not playing with confidence as of late, was interesting.
Gerrard excelled in the advanced role, and probable showed some of his best play in 18 months, in an attacking sense. It begs the question - why can't he play there some more.
Gerrard playing further forward also showed us that Henderson is able to play the holding role and could be tried there some more. Good to see he has taken the VC role on board too, clearly giving Gerrard a bollocking for crossing the ball from deep instead of bringing it into the corner. Some great touches from Hendo in the game, including the 1st. Took his own goal well too and I certainly loved the celebration, such passion! I make out that he is creating at least 1 clear cut chance per game this season. Has controbuted to 4 goals in the league. Nice return so far for a midfielder, in a team in bad form.
Lallana was bright, again, and I am slowly warming to him. I get the feeling that he would link up well with Allen. 1 touch passing between the 2 and both are able to turn aswell.
Lovren was poor again and I still cannot see how and why we spent 20m on him. Hasn't settled at all. Srktel is still by far our best CB and I find it harsh how Sahko has been treated while Lovren gets special treatment.
Manquillo has impressed in defence but his final ball is pretty bad. he always tends to cross instead of getting his head up and pass -something Johnson actually tries to do. Maybe this is something Johnson can teach Manquillo before he leaves in the summer.
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