JUST THE WAY THEY DREW IT UP:

Gerrard hails team-mate Carroll for 'man of the match' display (SPORTSMAIL, 19th February 2012)

There was the rare sight of Gerrard, Suarez and Carroll all starting a game together, and Gerrard hopes the end result is a sign of things to come.


'(Carroll) has been getting better and better in training and he was our man of the match today,' he said.
'We believe that the more we play together, the more we'll click. We're all good players and good players like playing with other good players. We're all on the same wavelength now.'


Carroll put the visiting defence under pressure all afternoon, contributing to the early own goal, before he got one of his own just before the hour mark.


'Every goal feels good, but it couldn't get any better today with the result as well and now we're through to the next round,' the striker said.


'We haven't played many games all together but we've been playing well in training and we put it into the game today.'