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Jordan Henderson, right, celebrates with Charlie Adam following the Scot had scored Liverpool's 3rd aim in opposition to Bolton. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Photos

When Liverpool final beat Bolton 8 months and an eternity back, the pictures have been of the manger embracing his assistant and the goalscorer with photos of a league table that showed the club had clambered a little additional from the relegation zone. Roy Hodgson lasted another eight days, Sammy Lee is absent, Joe Cole is in the departure lounge and Liverpool, nonetheless briefly it may be, are top rated of the Premier League. That, in short, is the Dalglish Effect.
Anfield is a area that consumes statistics like pub-goers gobble peanuts and the most recent revealed that his was Liverpool's very best start to a period given that 1994. Considering that they have a respectable seven details from their a few opening fixtures, it suggests Liverpool do not make a behavior of sprinting out of the blocks. It was a period Kenny Dalglish will bear in mind forever given that it concluded at Anfield with him steering Blackburn to the title. Liverpool have been fourth.
Just as Jamie Carragher rushed about ordering his gamers to get a grip of their feelings after Charlie Adam's 3rd goal had crushed whatever aspirations Bolton may have had, they know at Anfield that nothing at all matters right up until Might. As the stadium calm and Paul Robinson stretched his human body and potential to the limit to keep Liverpool at bay, you could practically listen to Dalglish mouthing a mantra that has been part of the club's phrase guide for numerous generations: "We will tot up the factors at the conclude of the year and see wherever we are."
The match was a triumph for the guys he had brought to Merseyside. Jordan Henderson and Charlie Adam scored, Stewart Downing ought to have completed while for José Enrique this should seem a world away from the Russian roulette of getting portion of Newcastle's defence. Bolton have not won a league match at Anfield since 1954 and the newest was so 1-sided that Ivan Klasnic's last-moment faucet-in was not even celebrated.
The scoreline apart, the most intriguing element of the night was that Andy Carroll started this match on the bench. Fernando Torres's desperate groping for the type of type that once lit up Liverpool has obscured the struggles of the Premier League's most costly Englishman for goals.
You can talk all you like about the squad system but Carroll is a centre-forward and a disciple of Alan Shearer, who thought to be any suggestion that he did not start an affront. Joe Fagan when had the courage to drop Dalglish for a game versus Tottenham in 1984 and the Scot would have anticipated Carroll to take it in the same way – with no remark.
What adopted was a vindication of Dalglish's judgement. There was 1 chief criticism of his summer time spending in that the three British midfielders on whom he had lavished £47m ended up overpriced granted they have been not set up internationals. But amongst them, Henderson, Adam and Downing developed some unanswerable demonstrations of their top quality.
The surprise was it produced only a solitary goal ahead of the interval. It started with a wonderful cross that, delivered with the external of Luis Suárez's boot, was met 1st time by Downing and pushed away high to his left by Jussi Jaaskelainen.
It was a help save that ought to have won, or at least saved a match. As a substitute it prevented Liverpool taking the lead by a make a difference of seconds. Dirk Kuyt retrieved the ricochet, played it back again to Henderson, who had his initial shot blocked and thrashed the ball house at the 2nd try.
Suárez's, when thoroughly clean by way of, may possibly have picked any spot but sent his chip on to the roof of Jaaskelainen's web. Kuyt delivered a shot that careered the wrong side of the publish. The play was relentless but it came with casualties as the two Fabrice Muamba and Martin Kelly ended up withdrawn with injury.
But even the decline of one particular of their most promising academy graduates had a beneficial facet as his alternative, Martin Skrtel, muscled earlier the supposedly imposing figure of Zat Knight to head residence Adam's corner on 52 minutes. A lot less than a minute later on, Adam himself almost walked by means of what was theoretically the heart of Bolton's defence to guarantee Bolton's 10th successive defeat in this fixture.
In an interview published on the morning of this match, Liverpool's principal proprietor, John W Henry, remarked that what had impressed him most about English football was the good quality and character of the refereeing. When Lee Probert ruled first that Gretar Steinsson had dealt with fractionally outdoors the place and then that Suárez's had dived in entrance of the Kop, it was an additional vindication of the judgement of the males who run Liverpool.