Steven Gerrard believes he is continuously developing a better understanding with Liverpool team-mate Andy Carroll.
Reds captain delighted with performance of £35m striker
Steven Gerrard believes he is continuously developing a better understanding with Andy Carroll after the pair starred in Liverpool's 6-1 thrashing of Brighton in the FA Cup.
Brighton scored three own goals, but Carroll was among the Liverpool players who also got on the scoresheet, along with strike partner Luis Suarez, who missed a penalty, but responded with a late header.
With the Carling Cup final on the horizon next Sunday, Liverpool could have been forgiven for having their attentions elsewhere.
But Gerrard believes their performance shows they can get better for the rest of the season with all of their top players available.
"It's always nice to first of all get the win and then to win convincingly," he told
ESPN. "In the end we went through the gears and got better and better as the 90 minutes went on and we deserved our goals.
Pressure
"The important thing was to focus on this game. The Carling Cup final was in our minds, because we have a massive game at Wembley next week, but we want to go to Wembley again in the FA Cup so today was just as important."
There was the first sight of Gerrard, Suarez and Carroll all starting a game together for Liverpool, and the former hopes the end result is a sign of things to come.
"(Carroll) has been getting better and better in training and he was our man of the match today," said Gerrard.
"We believe that the more we play together, the more we'll click. We're all good players and good players like playing with other good players. We're all on the same wavelength now."
Carroll put the visiting defence under pressure all afternoon and the £35million striker said: "Every goal feels good, but it couldn't get any better today with the result as well and now we're through to the next round.
"We haven't played many games all together, but we've been playing well in training and we put it into the game today."
