For the doom and gloom merchants, think about the link up between the new boys and the team, it looked good, Babel looked dangerous moving in on Alonsos long passes and over time they will learn one and others style of play and the timing of passes and runs will become a lot better, Babels pace looked to be dnagerous and i though his ball retention was good at times during the match.
Obviously Torres didnt play much more than 30 minutes and granted didnt look to sharp but he still managed to show some good attacking and creative skill to create some chances which he will probably put away once he is match fit and settled in the team.
They both look like good players and im sure they will fit in better with time.
As for Sissoko and Alonso, they both ran the show, they were great sissoko showed some better skill at ball retention and his first touch looked better than it has been, to be honest he looked like a attacking threat in todays game making some good runs forward, saying that i would rather have had Alonso making those runs
Once again Alonso showed that if Gerrard is not in the team he steps up his game and take centre stage to fill in for him, he may not be a box to box player like Gerrard but he can certainly pull the strings in midfield with out having to worry about covering Stevies attacking runs forward.
Was a good performance and we showed with a bit more work we can crack any team trying to play negative defensive football against us.
This is how i interpreted the game probably different to some hehe
