Interesting that you say "when everybody got healthy" when picking your dates. Skrtel has been out , Lucas has been out ,Benteke and Henderson are still out.
Maybe just saying "dates since our form improved" might be more accurate/honest ?
Sturridge, Coutinho, Sahko, Firmino, Origi.
All had been out somewhat and had seldom been able to be on the pitch together (if at all)...February all of them started playing together and things have changed.
Henderson played all those matches (though injured) Skrtel is a fringe player, Lucas has not been missed and Benteke has been a been a non-entity since Xmas.
None of those players are better than the ones that came back....no in my mind our form has improved since we got 4/5 best players being able to be on the pitch at the same time.
As much as I love Lucas..I think JD posted something a month or so back and we tend to lose matches when he starts...so I would not call him, Skrtel or Benteke starting XI players.
We had a period of time from December through January where we had the most injuries of any team in the league and had played the most amount of minutes of any team in Europe....Its really not a surprise we are playing better as February brought Coutinho, Firmino, and Sturridge together on the pitch all together for the first time.
We got our best players back, we have been building momentum and looked a totally different team since the start of February.
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