Steven Gerrard celebrates _320
HAVE you figured out how Gerrard scored that goal yet?
I’ve watched it a thousand times now and still can’t believe how he managed to wrap his foot round the ball to arc it over the goalkeeper at a 120-degree angle to the way he was running.
I saw less agile manoeuvres on the gymnastics mat in Beijing. Just when you think he’s done it all, he conjures up a moment like that. Pure magic.
Couple that with the nerve to take a penalty twice and put it in the same spot both times, and you’ve got another chapter in the Gerrard book of wondrous performances.
And how we needed him.
I suppose it was too much to expect that we could follow that high-octane, relentless performance against United with a similar display and brush Marseille aside as we had done last December.
The first-half was solid enough, and once again the side showed great resilience to going a goal down by recovering to win 2-1 for the third time this season.
