46 minutes into the Wigan game it was the same old same old from us. Neat passing in the middle and back third but not penetration up top. Very few changes and bar Suarez doing a Suarez and creating a goal from nothing we weren't looking likely. It had another 0-0 written all over it. The knives were already coming out in the match thread and even the tactical change of bringing on Hendo (who did very well) didn't seem to make much difference at all. Presumably it was done to release Allen a bit but he had a very quiet game as did Gerrard. In fact it was a cardon copy of every home game we've played against weaker sides at Anfield in 2012.
Then a defender slips, Sterling takes advantage and Suarez finishing brilliantly. Suddenly players are flooding into the box from everywhere. Enrique (who had plenty of shockingly poor moments in the first half) became a world beater, dribbling in space threading passes, turning up in the box and scoring. Sterling began to get space and even Hendo popped up with a chance.
Wigan's confidence drained away as ours grew exponentially. And it all came from a slip. Suddenly for 45 minutes we looked superb, slick, full of ideas and full of quality players. Rodgers was hailed as a tactical genius, Enrique was MOTM (I'm guessing anyone who thought this ahead of Suarez didn't watch the first half) and the pass and move groove was back.
For alot of this season we haven't gotten the breaks our play has deserved and yesterday perhaps we got a break we didn't deserve but what a difference it made to our fragile confidence. I can only begin to imagine where we might be if some of our changes in earlier games had gone in when we were dominating.
Hopefully this will be the watershed moment for this team and we can continue our run (7 unbeaten now) but funny how it took a slip from a defender to kick start us into playing our best football in 6 months.
Then a defender slips, Sterling takes advantage and Suarez finishing brilliantly. Suddenly players are flooding into the box from everywhere. Enrique (who had plenty of shockingly poor moments in the first half) became a world beater, dribbling in space threading passes, turning up in the box and scoring. Sterling began to get space and even Hendo popped up with a chance.
Wigan's confidence drained away as ours grew exponentially. And it all came from a slip. Suddenly for 45 minutes we looked superb, slick, full of ideas and full of quality players. Rodgers was hailed as a tactical genius, Enrique was MOTM (I'm guessing anyone who thought this ahead of Suarez didn't watch the first half) and the pass and move groove was back.
For alot of this season we haven't gotten the breaks our play has deserved and yesterday perhaps we got a break we didn't deserve but what a difference it made to our fragile confidence. I can only begin to imagine where we might be if some of our changes in earlier games had gone in when we were dominating.
Hopefully this will be the watershed moment for this team and we can continue our run (7 unbeaten now) but funny how it took a slip from a defender to kick start us into playing our best football in 6 months.
