Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur – Saturday 11th – 17:30 BT Sport 1

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    I would prefer that Henderson forget about goals and assists and focus more on the defensive side of things. It’s when he bombs forward that we are at our biggest risk of being countered. If we were to sign a DM in the summer then ya, he could fight for a place in one of the other roles but even though I rate him , I don’t think he automatically gets a place.

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    I think the idea of hendo needing to improve his attacking output (goals / assists) is really unfair. That isn’t his job…there are 5 (7, if you include full backs) players in more advanced positions than hendo a lot of the time when we have possession. Those players can chip in with more goals – as can our centre backs who come up for every set piece and NEVER get us a goal from them…like for example hyypia offered us.

    Hendo has been playing well, despite this ongoing heel issue. When he did last play regularly in a more advanced midfield role (2 seasons ago) he actually contributed pretty well with (something like) 5+ goals and 15 odd assists. I imagine he would have progressed from that, but then he had a season affected by injury and this season has adapted brilliantly to a new position.

    He shows loads of leadership and you can see what a strong character he has become. Love seeing him face off with people like costa. He has developed from a boy to a man in this team.

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    Ian, Matip, Lovren & Klaven have scored this season. Didn’t Lovren & Sahko score against Dortmund last season.

    Regarding Henderson and his heel issue which is Plantar Fascitis to the best of my knowledge – has there been any actual factual “statement” from the club as to whether it’s been as issue for him this season. Its a condition which flares from time to time, it may actually go away for years, but when it flares can be very painful, I’ve seen nothing to say its been an issue for Henderson this season.

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    Freebilli I thought I’d read and heard that it had affected him again and flared up and he was getting treatment. Maybe on the blood red podcast?

    I think we win a lot of corner and free kicks etc, and even if lovren etc have scored this season, I’d hope for a higher output from them in these situations considering the number of opportunities.

    Dortmund was a one off, not what normally happens. To match that example I can bring up one like Hendo’s goal at Chelsea 🙂

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    Ian, how soon we forget Skrtel! He was pretty good at getting the odd goal from corners. Lucas also scored from a corner this year so that’s a few. Also take into account that a high percentage of our corners don’t even get past their first defender, so it’s more the fault of our corner taker!

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    Again though I wouldn’t necessarily bring lucas to the table as the card to play when talking about goal scoring 😛

    Skrtel had a very prolific season in 13/14 – would love to see something like that from another of our centre backs.

    Can’t argue that the corner taking can leave a lot to be desired as well!

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    Using Lucas was a bit of a stretch and slightly tongue in cheek!

    I know Skrtel was much maligned on here and dipping in form but I would have preferred to see him next to Matip than Klavan, Lovren or Lucas.

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    Ian – February 15, 2017 at 5:09 pm – I agree pretty much completely there man. We have enough people to score more and when we over-invest, we get caught out.

    Ya Skrtel was good for the odd goal alright, didn’t he score 2 almost identical goals from the corner in our title challenge run in? Was one against Man city and the other against Chelsea? Awesome stuff.

    We do need to do a lot better from corners, we get so many of them. . it’s such a waste! If that happened against us we’d lose by 8!

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