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Liverpool went about it really well at Crystal Palace.

To go there - it’s always been a bit of a dodgy ground for us - and get three points is excellent.

It was a horrendous mistake by Dejan Lovren for the first Palace equaliser, he doesn’t know what he was doing there, but I was really pleased that he atoned for it with a goal. That’s what you need because it can play on your mind otherwise.

The fact that we’ve found a corner taker is also a real positive. Our corners have been horrendous for a long time, I could never see us scoring from them. But Philippe Coutinho put in some really good deliveries and hopefully we’ll stick with him now.

We’ve scored against a big team through the two centre-halves. It shows you we can do it with a quality of service which gives you a chance to attack the ball. Set-pieces are so important. You look at the goals over a season from a team who wins the league or gets close.

When we had Suarez and Steve Gerrard deliveries, you could see the percentage of goals getting knocked up. That’s where your centre-halves get their share of the goals and we should be looking for our two to score five each a season.

You saw from Joel Matip’s leap that when you’ve got the height he has and attack the ball, it’s very hard to defend. Lovren did that too become he wanted to make up for his mistake - perhaps he might not have got his head on that ball otherwise.

There were some really good performances, the front four as a unit with their movement were really good and it was hard for them to hold us down.

Coutinho was influential because we were able to get him on the ball. It’s very hard sometimes when teams put one or two men on him to stop him getting in that little zone where he’s unmarked. He manipulated that space in the first half in particular, with us giving him the ball and him turning and going at the defence.

Moreno added to our attacking game - but he needs to stop going hands free

It was good to see Loris Karius finally make a save and a good one, from Benteke at his near post.

For the life of me I don’t understand why he didn’t put his hands up when he advanced on McArthur after Lovren’s mistake. All goalkeepers come out with their hands up. That was his error, he wasn’t to blame for the goal but I thought he could have done a little bit better.

Their second goal, again we’ve allowed a ball to come in from wide areas and the tracking was poor in the middle.

Alberto Moreno came out again with his hands behind his back and I thought someone would have got something across to him by now.

First and foremost you want to be a yard off the player so if the ball hits your hand it’s not intentional. If you stand off a player by two or three yards, he’s going to get a ball in or if he hits your arm it’s a penalty.

If you get right up against him you don’t allow the cross to come in. He’s just got to get on his toes and get as close as possible without getting caught out, Putting your hands behind your back unbalances you. I think Moreno has probably been taught to do it as a young player but he’s got to get out of that habit.

But he added to our game going forward. He’s got to see things quicker when it breaks down and get back. Jurgen wants him to get forward which is brilliant but he needs to see it quick and sprint back a little bit earlier to get back in position.

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We more than made up for any defensive problems going forward but I think the manager knows you can’t always be needing to score three or four goals to win games.

If we are to go on and challenge for the league, we’ve got to work on the defensive aspect of our game, make us a little bit tougher to break down and make less mistakes. Jurgen knows that.

We won't get carried away but you've got to go for it and see where you end up

It was another hurdle cleared on Saturday and there will be a lot more to come. But you can only jump over the hurdles in front of you and you don’t look any further ahead than Watford. We were always taught that at Anfield. Let other people do the talking and you do yours on the pitch.

There’s no reason for fans not to look towards the top of the table though and as a player and a manager if you’re not looking to head to the top something’s wrong with you.

We’re in the mix, I won’t say we’ll win it but we’re about one of four teams who can. The bookies have put us down to 3/1 now and that tells you everything. We won’t get carried away but you’ve got to go for it and see where you end up.

Watford have had some good away results this season, you can’t take them lightly. They turned us over last year at Vicarage Road. They’ll come and get men behind the ball but their manager does like to play some offensive football so hopefully they will come and make a game of it unlike some others who have come to spoil and grab a point.

I can understand teams being scared of our pace and movement mind.

Don't criticise the 'day-trippers' - Reds global fanbase makes the club special

It was a good win for my old team Tranmere down at Dover, a tricky place to go and a long trip south. That’s three on the bounce now for Micky Mellon, brilliant. Newport got a great result at Accrington Stanley and Liverpool won too - so a good weekend.

I was out in Oslo doing a Mastercard event for Liverpool FC. The Liverpool supporters turned up in their droves, we know what it’s like in Norway. They were absolutely fantastic fans and it was a joy to entertain them. You talk to them and Liverpool is their life along with their family. They work to save up to come to Anfield three or four times a season. That’s why we’re such a great club, to have fans like that all over the world.

I’m lucky I was born in Liverpool to follow Liverpool - other people aren’t that fortunate. They follow Liverpool from a young age from when their dad told them about it, watching Match of the Day when it was the only football show they got.

It got in their blood and some of the things I see when I’m abroad would amaze you. We’ve got 40,000 affiliated fans there.