Bar the ten minutes in the second half, an excellent performance and mostly comfortable.
Liverpool in their current state are over - tired, slow and out of ideas. Define rebuild incoming for them.
Lemina was absolutely superb, best player on the pitch - interesting to see that’s he’s now the one picking the ball up off the centre halves/keeper and allowing Ruben to play further forward and get more involved……hence the freedom for the run and goal.
I said on here (and mocked by a few!) that I would rather see Kilman retained with Dawson rather than Collins. I think today we saw a leader in Collins which might see Max get his confidence back and play like he used to with Coady. Thought he did well today - it was still Gakpo, Nunez and Salah he was up against, remember.
Dawson, Semedo, RAN, Cunha all excellent too - could really fault anyone today.
Could totally see why he played Hwang over Podence too - Hwang runs his nuts off and gives you 90 mins - Podence (for all his potential talent) is in and out of games and, maybe, doesn’t keep it as simple as he should sometimes.
Today we saw what happens when you replace a pub manager with an elite one.
We are an infinitely different side to the one under Lage - not just in personnel, but attitude, organisation, fitness, motivation, tactics - the whole club is benefiting from JL.
What a manager we have now. And what a fucking brilliant result.
Bring on Match of the Day.