It was a great weekend for Liverpool. After a couple of hiccups that we’ve had, that win over Brentford was very much what was needed really.

After the draws with United and the other dropped points, it was important to get back to winning ways in the league. It was well-needed, and the manner that we did it in will have been a big blow to the other teams up there fighting with us.

You see the score and when the goals go in, players will be dejected looking at that. ‘They’ve done it again’. We’ve had that countless times with Man City over the years under Jurgen Klopp.

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Everyone is so pleased for Darwin. What’s happened with him since he joined, we can talk about him until we’re blue in the face. His confidence is really low, there’s no getting away from that, and we all keep on talking about him.

But that should boost his confidence. It’s hard, the way we play, because it doesn’t suit the way that Darwin actually plays his game.

He’s full-blooded and better-suited to Jurgen’s style of play than Arne Slot’s, probably. But he’s just got to learn what Arne wants from him and he’ll nurture him.

I honestly don’t know if he’ll ever fully suit the new style. You just hope so. We’ve seen the really good and the not so good from Darwin.

But everyone is behind him, that’s the one thing you can say he’s got. He knows the crowd really like him at least, so he’s onto a winner there. No-one is really overly criticising him from a Liverpool point of view.

Everyone wants him to do well. And if he does well, we do well. Hopefully he can still come good, but we’ll just have to wait and see.

At the very least, Slot can utilise him like he is at the moment, as a game-changer off the bench who can turn a game late on. If the game’s now going how you want it, he’s fresh, he’ll come on and give something different. That’s what he’s done and that’s what he did at the weekend.

Subbing in

Darwin might have got all the headlines on Saturday, but it’s been a great week for Liverpool’s impact substitutes. Diogo Jota and Kostas Tsimikas in midweek at Forest, and then Darwn at Brentford. But he wasn’t the only one.

We all know all about young Harvey Elliott. We know how good he is, he is a game-changer. He comes on and changes games and that’s what he did against Brentford.

He comes on and wants the ball, he does different things with it and offers something different. Brentford knew how to play against Salah and Gakpo to an extent, but didn’t know how to work against Elliott.

When you throw a player like him on late on, it changes the mindset of the defenders and it’s facing something different. It certainly worked on the weekend because it completely changed the game, between the three of them because it was Chiesa as well.

Young Elliott, Chiesa and obviously Nunez, who was man of the match for what he did. They’re why we got the result.

Midfield magic

Defensively, we had a couple of jittery moments but their forwards, Mbeumo and Wissa, they will give anyone problems. They’re really good players, Mbeumo especially. He’s hard to hold down.

And Brentford will always cause teams problems at their own place. But I thought we played really, really well. Our midfield was exceptional, I really thought they were brilliant.

The only thing missing was the goals as we should have taken more of our chances. But it worked out well in the end.

The overall display was really good, the midfielder in particular and we did what we had to do at the back to get a much-needed clean sheet.