Liverpool 5-2 AS Roma: 5 Talking Points

#4 Liverpool's midfield impresses yet again

Jordan Henderson delivered a captain's performance

When Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was stretchered off the field in the 16th minute, it was sensed that Liverpool will miss his drive and hunger going forward for the rest of the match. But his replacement, Georginio Wijnaldum stepped up to the plate brilliantly and never put a foot wrong.

James Milner was at his usual industrious best - fighting for lost causes, joining in the attacks and working his socks off to win the ball back. But Jordan Henderson was the pick of the three! The captain delivered a brilliant performance and displayed once again why he is highly rated by the club and country coaches.

Henderson dictated the tempo of the game, won possession back innumerable times and never shied away from doing the dirty work. AS Roma's midfield of Danielle De Rossi, Radja Nainggolan and Kevin Strootman that had played Barcelona's famed midfield out of the park had no answers to Liverpool's midfield three.

Today was Jordan Henderson's best performance probably ever, leave alone in a Red shirt.If you end up bossing De Rossi the entire game so much so that he is taken off, you know you had a good day.

— Hardik Nagar (@hardikreds17) April 24, 2018