Steven Gerrard played only 18 league games for Liverpool last season, less than half of the total available and his lowest since he broke into the team in the 1998/99 season. He looked sharp at the European Championships, and there’s no question that if he plays anything like a full season, he will bring goals, both from the point of view of creating and scoring chances. Similarly, we should all be rightly hopeful that a full season from Luis Suarez – without an eight game ban in the middle of it – will give him the opportunity to create and score more goals as the lynchpin of Rodgers’ attack.
