What else can you say about a game that finished in an 8-0 win: it was a brilliant performance and which could have ended up with a higher number of goals. All of Besiktas’ faults were exposed – and there were many – making the defeat of two weeks ago all the more bitter to take.

Good Game
Everyone played an excellent game even though Pepe Reina was barely used and will hardly ever be as quite as today. Alvaro Arbeloa has been out of the side in recent weeks yet today showed that he can more than fill in for Steve Finnan. Both Jamie Carragher and Sami Hyppia easily dealt with what Besiktas threw at them with Hyppia even taking the ball out of defence on a couple of occasion.

Steven Gerrard was everywhere in midfield with Yossi Benayoun scoring three, creating a number of chances and proving once more that he is a class act. Javier Mascherano won an immense number of balls and allowed Gerrard to move forward. Peter Crouch finally scored a goal this season but most of the running was done by Andriy Voronin who is this game’s man of the match.

Bad Game
It is hard to fault anyone after such a game yet the left side of midfield didn’t work as well as it could have. John Arne Riise simply isn’t a threat when asked to start on the left hand side of midfield whilst Fabio Aurelio is still slowly recovering.

Substitutes
After a good return against Blackburn, Harry Kewell continued his road to recovery with another second half appearance showing flashes of creativity that have been sorely missing. Finally played up front, Ryan Babel scored twice hinting to Benitez that perhaps this is where he can get the best out of him.