Gerrard Hyppia Pennant I don't really understand all these votes for Mascherano. He had a reasonable debut in about the easiest game he will ever play at Anfield but the first 30 minutes of the game just passed him by and he looked a little lost. A couple of times he was muscled off the ball and he was wasteful a few times. He came into it towards more the end of the half and put in a couple of good tackles. Second half he was better and got into the game more and was involved, with a nice pass, in the fourth goal. Not a bad performance at all after his troubled time at West Ham and playing no football for so long but not one of the top three performances. I was looking forward to seeing him play since he was first linked with us and, sitting pretty much on halfway, I was in a great position to get a good look at his performance and I thought it was pretty encouraging but I'm expecting much more to come from a player who with undoubted class.