Liverpool star claims they are league's best

Liverpool star claims they are league’s best

Written by Daniel Prince on March 11, 2013

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has claimed his side are the best team in the Premier League on current form.

Gerrard scored a late penalty against Tottenham Hotspur yesterday to seal a 3-2 win which lifted them up to sixth in the table.

It was Liverpool’s first victory over a top-five side so far this season, but their fourth win in a row in all competitions.

They have won their last three league games, scoring 12 goals in the process, and Gerrard feels Liverpool, along with Tottenham, are the best team in the league at the moment.

Luis Suarez extended his lead in the Premier League goalscoring charts with his 22nd goal of the season to give the Reds the lead, before two strikes from Spurs defender Jan Vertonghen turned the game in the visitors’ favour.

Relief

Stewart Downing brought Liverpool level before Gerrard’s spot kick eight minutes from the end secured a crucial victory, ending Tottenham’s 12 match unbeaten league run in the process.

Gerrard was delighted with the performance, and with Liverpool’s recent form.

He said, as reported by Sky Sports: “It’s a big win for us. With our performances against the top sides this season I think we’ve been very unlucky not to get a win.

“It’s been too long so there’s a bit of relief really that we have proved we can beat one of the top sides in the league.

“I think on current form, along with ourselves, Tottenham are probably the best team in the league.”

Finishing in the Champions League places still looks a long shot for the Reds, despite the fact they leapfrogged Everton in the table with the win.

They are still seven points off fourth-placed Chelsea, who have a game in hand.

Message

Gerrard is insistent that Liverpool should not get too carried away with their current form, and admitted one of their main goals is to finish ahead of Everton.

He added: “When we went out of the Europa League the message from the manager [Brendan Rodgers] was that we needed to try to win as many of our remaining games as possible.

“Our form is good but we can’t afford to get carried away just because we’ve beaten Tottenham.

“We need to show what we’ve shown in all of our remaining games. We want to finish above Everton and as high as we can in the league.”

Specialist

haha poor old stevie g. we helped you both times we played this season. at WHL bale had to score a goal for you. at anfield walker and BAE practically gift wrapped the win. the best team on current form. bahahaha
- Spiv
  
  Spurs will screw up again…..may just get 4th but will probably lose in the qualifying round. Will Spurs win a major trophy next season…odds are zero to none! Will Bale leave by the end of next season…odds are high to certain. Will Spurs go back to being a mid table average team and LFC rise to be Champion contender – as LFC has a history of being a top winning team and Spurs has a history of being average, with a light flavouring of the odd flair player – …….odds are extremely high! ps If Spurs don’t get CL football then you may as well get into rugby!
  - http://www.facebook.com/russell.hughes.319 Russell Hughes
    
    History doesn’t really matter to be honest, Spurs have got a good set of players. Players that Rodgers would probably love to have in his team at that.
    - Spiv
      
      Other than Bale, who would Rogers take?? Don’t think a keeper is critical at this stage, LFC have better FBs, the CBs are on par, wouldn’t swap Gerrard or Lucas for Dembele or Parker, Coutinho is looking a class act and Suarez and Sturridge are a better strike force than Defoe and Adebayor.
      - PatrickTheRed
        
        Don’t be silly mate Dembélé is a very good player and that Belgium CB who scored 2 last night would be an improvement on our defense and who wouldn’t take Bale but Liverpool have a very good team too and Courtinho, Suarez and Sturridge are better than adebayor, defoe and Bale imo
      - http://www.facebook.com/michael.phillips.969952 Michael Phillips
        
        i agree other than bale
      - Spiv
        
        Would you have Dembele over Gerrard? Would you have Santos over Lucas……Lucas is first 11 for Brazil, Santos is not. Lennon is better than Downing but he’s inconsistent. Coutinho is looking good so far albeit it being early days in his Prem career. Agree on their CB but statistically we have a better defence than Spurs this season. Moreover we have outscored Spurs this season!
      - Alicat
        
        His name is Sandro and he’s got almost as many caps for Brazil as Lucas and is three years younger. You score more, i’ll give you that, a whole 5 goals more and concede less (actually you don’t but i’ll humour you) yet you win less! You should wait till the end of the season before you start bragging. But I guess Liverpool beating Spurs at home means alot these days.
      - http://www.facebook.com/michael.phillips.969952 Michael Phillips
        
        maybe not parker but sandro is gar better than lucas for a start lennon better than downing jan is better than any centre back liverpool has and llrois is two
    - PatrickTheRed
      
      There’s certainly 4 Spurs players I’d love to have in our Liverpool team.
Unspecialist

bahahahaha
until now a specialist cant diffrentiate between winning and losing…
bwahahaha..
wins is all that matters..YNWA..hahahaha
http://www.facebook.com/people/Kenneth-Hamilton/100002524391732 Kenneth Hamilton

Thoroughly outplayed by a tired Tottenham side, get two gift goals and suddenly they are the best team in the UK?
- PatrickTheRed
  
  The statistics don’t lie. Liverpool, Spurs and United have been the 3 best teams in 2013. Liverpool have outscored every team, and along with City have the most clean sheets. Spurs played at home to a weakened Milan side so tiredness is an excuse, Liverpool just wanted it more and all the goals were mistakes by both teams except Liverpool’s first which was a world class passing team goal. Everyone can see Liverpool are becoming a real force again and I bet a lot of people are sick about it.
  - http://www.facebook.com/michael.phillips.969952 Michael Phillips
    
    liverpool were shoddy at best spurs outplayed them and made two silly
    mistakes ones that u only make once in a long time laughable to say best team in prem although they are recovering well spurs are a better side
    - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002669564265 Dave Smith
      
      two long ball by spurs were not good goals. Liverpool made 2 silly mistakes. Over all Liverpool were the better team. Liverpool were expected to win. You could have had 3/1 tottenham win. Did you take it?
      Not many people would have!
- mark hilditch
  
  spot on…spurs were far the better side, should have put them away before the mistake by walker and lloris, followed by defoe and benny’s error which was compounded by the ref giving a penalty for suarez falling over in the box for the umpteenth time in the game. if you were the best team in England you wouldn’t be sitting 7th. got lucky is all. Liverpool are a shadow of what they were years ago and long may it last. COYS
coliemac

At WHL you were played off the proverbial park and taught an absolute lesson. And yes between Liverpool and Spurs they are both by far and away the two best teams in the League at the moment on current form..so nothing wrong with that comment at the moment at all.
- PatrickTheRed
  
  Liverpool played United off the park and lost, it means less than nothing. Liverpool taught Spurs a lesson with our first goal on how to pass the ball through a team with style..
PatrickTheRed

Courtinho should’ve gotten a penalty when it was 1-0 so Spurs were lucky to be even in that game..
Alicat

Liverpool fans and players need to just take it easy! There are reasons
to be confident, sure, but the only thing you should take from the game
at the weekend is the result. You were being outplayed until the two
mistakes that gifted you the game, and a sub par Spurs team on the day
was doing the outplaying. We didn’t play as well as we have been and
still were overall the better side away from home. Liverpool do have the
best player over the whole of the season in Suarez, but for someone to
suggest that Liverpool have better players than Spurs except for Bale is
slightly deluded. Gerrard looks so far now from his best, a penalty
saved him from being completely redundant in this game. Both teams are
improving, but in this game Liverpool were lucky to win nothing more
nothing less.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002669564265 Dave Smith

spurs doing well this year. but we are all aware of the loser mentality taken them over.
next year back to the mid table. Bale should leave before his value drops.
I put spurs on a par with Newcastle. good one year, sinking the next

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