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Super Dan’s Supreme, Scruffy Start

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Sturridge celebrates for LFCAS you do with a £12 million player, Daniel Sturridge attracted a lot of attention on his Anfield debut on Saturday against Norwich City.

For a signing much debated, for better or worse, it was an important chance to show his skills in front of the home crowd, and “Super Dan” delivered yet again.

After two in two games previously, Sturridge has now, interestingly enough, scored more goals for Liverpool in the last 3 games than Jelavic has in the last 15 for Everton. 3 goals in 3 is a very impressive return. It was such an important thing for him to get off to a good start. As I have mentioned, he does have his detractors but he will only serve to win them over if he continues to do what he was bought to do – score goals.

I was very pleased to see him notch his first home goal in front of the Kop, but it was the nature of the goal that pleased me the most. It was a scruffy tap in. It was the sort of goal we haven’t been scoring for the last two years, when we have played good football and created plenty of chances only to miss them.

Already you can see that Sturridge is going to be in the right place at the right time to score goals from rebounds and good balls across the six yard box. I watched his positioning very closely on Saturday.

There were a number of occasions where Mark Bunn came for crosses and made a couple of very good takes. On every occasion, Daniel Sturridge was waiting to pounce. He has already shown his penchant for reading the bounce of the ball, as was evident at Old Trafford last weekend.
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To his credit, Sturridge’s all round game was excellent, full stop. You can tell he isn’t fully fit just yet (though he is another 68 minutes closer to being so) but his work rate was spot on and already his partnership with Luis Suarez is beginning to burgeon. They have an understanding. Just how much so we’ll establish in the coming weeks as they play together more, but their interplay all game was encouraging.

The ultimate payoff of their work together was Suarez’s superb goal. The step over from Sturridge was inspired and then the rest was always going to happen, it’s Luis Suarez. I will be keeping an interested eye on the Uruguayan in the coming weeks. I have long held a theory that he has felt the pressure of being the only established goalscorer at the club. He has performed admirably this season as our only true goalscorer but I think we will see him improve even further with someone else to share the goals out with.

Sturridge has made an impressive start and I hope to see more of the scruffy sorts of goal over the coming weeks and months. After a strong start, he now has the majority of fans behind him and 3 goals in 3 games is a very encouraging return so far. A lot of credit needs to go to him for making such a strong start and for clearly enjoying playing for the club so much. Keep scoring goals mate, and we’ll love you. Even if you do that weird arm-thing dance.
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I'm a fully trained journalist who shunned a career in the profession due to my disillusionment with the tabloid press, instead hoping to become a professional author. I've written for The Liverpool Way for 7 years and am a regular on the forum using the name Agt Provocateur.

A passionate member of supporter group Kop Faithful, I've been a season ticket holder of 8 years and a regular match goer since 1995.

When not criticising diminishing refereeing standards in football, I can be found at Langtree Park, the home of St Helens Rugby League Club being highly critical of non existent standards of refereeing in Rugby League. I'm is also a massive Lancashire and England cricket fan.

8 comments

  • tommy says:

    ian rush used to score many scruffy tap ins off his nose from his knee from back of his head from a simple toe poke , to be honest they are as good , if not better than a 25 yarder volly , the scruffy tap in is a goal , also it tells me the striker is doing his best to get into the 6yards box even closer next to the line , which tells me the team are play pressure footy , lets hope he stay injury free and hungery to succeed ,

  • KITYO JONATHAN says:

    So far agd combination 4 d club, bt t wud hv bin d best team f we had captureed d signature of Walloct n Wesley

  • simon says:

    KITYO JONATHAN can you not read or write properly?
    i have a dead cat with better english skills

  • I’m glad two of his goals so far have been tap ins, its nice to have a forward who stays in the box, or reacts from the keepers parries.

    If Sturridge keeps gambling like he has, then there’s plenty more to be had for him.

  • red says:

    You watched too many badminton matches !!!! Google “Super Dan” now. By the way, Super Dan in badminton world easily comparable to Messi in football world.

    Overhype/Mindless praising should be stopped (eg S. Gerrard comment on Joe Cole, Commoli’s LFC squad is complete, new Vieira, etc)

    • Matt says:

      Your mindless negative crap comments should stop at least these writers and comments are trying to be positive, all you do is bring negative crap it’s blah blah blah everyday.

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