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Chelsea ain't bothered and our players are.

I smell 6, 7 or 8. PERFECT game to bring Sterling on for 45 mins. PERFECT.

Oh yes! Henderson has been world-class, the best player I've ever seen! The way he made Terry fall over was magnificent, the finish was brilliant, he made the keeper not give a f*ck in saving it, just with a look.

craney are on the shrooms tonight?

Think we may have seen the last of maxi be sad to see him go he has done well for LFC

hilarious..lol i dont need to comment on hendo after reading this. lmao

agreed, he put himself about, read his chance well and finished well. ya have to wonder sometimes about this forum.

I fully expected a round of negative comments after a great performance.

It's not all blue skies, but carrol's performances in the last few games give me hope for him next season. Henderson's got a long way to go, likewise shelvey, but pleased to see them get goals.

Couple of changes in the summer (just players...) and we'll be back in the CL in no time.

He was OK, nothing special.

Credit on his goal, he stook it away nicely for once. But the rest of his game was much the same, sideways passing a few good tackles.

Still need to see more!

If John Terry hadn't pretended to be a ballerina or Henderson missed the shot, he'd still be criticized for tonights performance.

its good for him and hopefully will help his confidence.

but chelsea didn't bother tonight and we could have got 8 easily. so you can't read anything other than carroll looks focused,fit and strong(after a euro call-up?),hendo got a goal and shevley got a bit of a peach.

+1

I really don't get the idea of continually being negative. Henderson will either become a good player for us or he won't. At 20 he has plenty of time to develop into something special, and although many people refuse to see it he has shown flashes of brilliance throughout the season. Of course he's made mistakes, who hasn't? It's not the making of a mistake that is important, but rather the learning from it that comes after. I'm quite happy for him to make a million mistakes in a season where nothing is going right for us anyway, provided he learns from it and is able to be largely error-free when everyone is playing well and we are in for a lot more than the Carling Cup a season or so down the line.

While I'm not an ITK and obviously don't know the lad personally, I think a lot of Henderson's problems have come from a perception that he is a junior player in the team and therefore should let the big boys do all the good work. Don't make mistakes, don't be too adventurous. That kind of attitude sadly lessens his talent and tends to lead to mistakes rather than helping one avoid them. But when he's been given actual responsibility - "only you can do this job" - he's tended to do quite well. Examples being those games where he has not played beside Spearing in a holding role, not played beside Gerrard in an attacking role, and especially that game when he played right back. Like yesterday for instance. No senior players around him, nowhere to hide, in the middle of the park where he's been better all season, and look. A goal and a much more confident performance all round. Yes, he still spent too much time recycling the ball, but that is something he can correct with training and familiarity with his role (something largely denied him all season by playing him all over the park, particularly on the right). The mental attitude is something only he can fix, and he looked much more at home in a game where he wasn't allowed to defer to anyone.