‘Unfortunate Gerrard can bounce back’

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has seen at first hand how captain Steven Gerrard bounces back from "hard moments" and the midfielder will be looking to make up for a double disappointment this weekend.

The 34-year-old, left on the bench for the Champions League defeat to Real Madrid in the Bernabeu, will be the centre of attention in the run-up to tomorrow’s visit of unbeaten Premier League leaders Chelsea.

Repeats of his slip which allowed Demba Ba to score at Anfield in April and set in motion the beginning of the end of the club’s title dream will be replayed on television screens throughout the country, and Chelsea fans will regularly remind him with a song they invented to mark the occasion.