Neil Atkinson’s post-match review after Liverpool 3 Crystal Palace 0 in the Premier League at Anfield, to round off a huge week for The Reds…

THERE are weeks and there are weeks .
Leeds away Sunday, Milan family Wednesday and Palace home plate Saturday is quite the week. It ’ s not a monolith, not a colossus, not an epic but it ’ s not a shrug of the shoulders. It ’ s a caper of work .
And bar 10 minutes against AC Milan it couldn ’ t have gone much better for Liverpool.

They look fix. possibly I ’ ll be wrong, possibly these words will haunt me and us, possibly they ’ ll have bad luck and hard lines and begin to find it rugged but at the hour they look ready for serious business .
This international relations and security network ’ t the same as being arrant or being invulnerable. today Crystal Palace attack them very well in bursts across the 90 minutes and are both inauspicious and denied by magnificence in not troubling the scoreboard .
This Liverpool side is built from the back ; it ’ s a series of end of level bosses. You get beyond Jordan Henderson and Thiago Alcantara, there is Fabinho. You pick your way around him and there is Virgil van Dijk and if you ’ ve been very dependable and actually lucky you then, in whatever nick you end up in, have Alisson Becker .
He ’ second enormous and looks bigger. He stands up for days. He is composure body because he has seen kittenish young bucks like you ahead. He has a glance in his center and must be distractingly big. He is the rock candy everything can founder on. And he is back to being himself .
James Milner had a bet on where he was all about being there first and being there hard. He allowed Wilfried Zaha nothing for free and Zaha got himself wound up. The rest of his side looked excellent including Michael Olise who came on and looked ace. Milner and Henderson though. nothing for release .
At the other end Sadio Mane was excellent and enjoyed the trash and it was Diogo Jota ’ s day for the blue footprint in front of goal. The reality is that it will always be person ’ s sidereal day for that because if it isn ’ t Liverpool will score eight. The chances precisely never stop coming. Liverpool are attacking therefore very well. One day it will get harder as we saw against Chelsea and then digging one out will be the order of the day. But not today .
Mohamed Salah is the best attacker in the league. This summer some lads moved about and to this division. A lot of money in wages and fees has changed hands. But none of them are Mo Salah. As it stands the merely attackers in the earth worthy of being mentioned in the same hint spend every other Saturday in Paris or Munich. He is this league ’ mho dominant attacking force and he has started this season with aplomb .
He loves it. More than always at the minute he evokes a pulsate ace that he is a Liverpool player. A liverpool leader. He has seemed like a lot of things. In February 2018 he escalated to ball-shaped proportions, shoot past our eyes and my idol did we enjoy the vapor lead. But right now his greatness is our greatness .
His ambitions are unambiguously ours. Him imposing himself game by plot, month by calendar month on this division is us imposing ourselves. He and us have never ever been closer, and let ’ s be clear we have been pretty close. Watch him give it the bad one bare-breasted. Echoes of Gerrard at Fulham. It was a enchantress. Sound the alarm clock, there ’ s a league to be won.

“ We can win this league you know ”. It is the only sentence ever worth saying aboard “ we can win this european Cup you know ” and “ we can do this double you know ” but that is this week. not because it has been stupidly hard because it hasn ’ thymine. But it has been hard adequate and Liverpool in the end have cruised .
I have a report I tell that I love. When it all went mad against Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea and more in the fall of 2018, when night outs beget nights out all of a sudden, Brock said to me and Ben Jono “ lads, you need to pace yourself. It ’ s entirely September. Imagine where you will be in November. ”
Imagine .
It ’ s alone September. But September means that April can be a thing. September feeling like April is an aspect of a club, a laid of players and a patron free-base being in unison. We need it more than want it and we want it for all clock time. Close your eyes and tell me what you see .
liverpool have made a ruffianly six days look like a walk in the parking lot, hand and hand. Us and them against Leeds, us and them against Milan, and us and them against Palace. Us and them against an entire division .
You pace yourself. I ’ ll delight myself. Five hurdles cleared, 33 to go but it is always constantly person ’ s beginning plot back and it is always constantly by and by than you think .
There are weeks and there are weeks. Sound the alarm. Fireworks blazing. Heart isn ’ t better. nothing for free .

“ You ’ rhenium watching a side that can compete on two fronts, they can be brilliant in the week against Milan and then beat Palace at the weekend. ”
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— The Anfield Wrap ( @ TheAnfieldWrap ) September 18, 2021

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