A win at last. Relief more than anything as we secure out first league win of 2008...in February. And that simply is why we haven't challenged for the title this season. You cannot afford to go a whole month without winning a league game.
It wasn't a particularly impressive performance. In fact for most of the first half, it had the look of another frustrating draw and up until Crouch's opening goal we had created precious little. Torres follow up put us in the comfort zone and Gerrard added the shine with the penalty. At the moment Crouch/Torres looks a decent bet as a strike partnership in light of Dirk Kuyt's shocking loss of form which now sees him excluded from the latest Dutch squad.
Lucas Leiva on the left isn't something I want to see again. Rafa was obviously keen to include him following his impressive cameo at West Ham on Wednesday but the Brazilian will not have benefitted from looking as uncomfortable as he did in that position. Mascherano was once again superb and is worthy of every single penny we end up paying for him.
Martin Skrtel put in a more competent performance than he did against Havant last weekend. The Slovak will benefit from the more games he plays. Moving Jamie Carragher to right back was a strange decision but paid off with a fine cross for Crouch's goal.
But all the accolades for performances in defence must go to Sami Hyypia who is in the twilight of his career but is playing arguably his best football for the club. Many thought this season would see him feature very little but Daniel Agger's injury troubles have seen become a regular in the starting eleven and while two games a week might have impacted on his consistency there seems to be no such problems for the Finn.
A fantastic servant to the club and one of the best defenders we've ever had.
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