Lucas Leiva on Highs & Lows, Klopp and Retirement | We Are Liverpool Podcast 

Totally agree, he was such a monster under Kenny till his ACL ruptured against Chelsea. He made the likes of Spearing and Adam look good playing in a 2-man CM! That side with Suarez, Kuyt and Maxi roaming around looked so good at times. Lucas was 100% the anchor and imo the best DM in the league at the time, reminded me of Kante in his prime with the ground he covered and his ability to just sweep up everywhere and outbattle people larger than him. Never fully recovered his pace and tenacity afterwards, which was a big loss considering he was never the most technical player either. Massive shame.

people forget how good he was when we battered United 4-1 at O.T., Lucas kept Tevez and Ronaldo at bay and barely gave them a chance to create anything. To me that's his best performance.

What a load of b0ll0x! Bang average player only got as many games because of other player injuries!

​@gerrardsmiceralonso sorry best in the league? He wasn't better than Jon obi mikel, Michael Carrick,Ramires,Essien. Mascherano,Gareth barry. And I'm a liverpool fan and have missed out lots of other players Your memory's playing tricks with you. He became a fan favouite because he got over a difficult start and had a first class attitude but he wasn't the best defensive midfielder in the premier league

@@TORRES999ify I'm speaking very specifically about his form under Kenny here before his cruciate gave out, At that point Mascherano had left the league, Essien was injured and on the way out, Carrick I'll give you but tbf I don't really see them as quite the same kind of player. As for Ramires/Barry we'll just have to agree to disagree, Barry had the better career, and Ramires had more strings to his bow, but at that point I would've definitely taken Lucas over either of them as a no. 6. If anything I think his closest competition was Alex Song at the time. I know that sometimes there's a lot of revisionism about certain fan favourites, Lucas wasn't that great to start with and was a squad player long before the end. But I will stand by the fact that his knee injury cost him dearly. His peak was short lived, but for around a year I think he was genuinely world class. After his return to injury he went back to being a mid-table player at best though.

That's all we ask. You can forgive bad games, but not bad work ethic/attitude

B0ll0x, average player at best!

@@paulcavanagh1294 he would be in the team now 👍

Agreed ! In term of such ethics, attitude and passion for the team, my LFC midfield would be James M, Hendo, Lucas , Stevie

@davestinson2323 He's too slow for this team. But I agree we need someone like Lucus. But with more athleticism

Are you for real?? That is a disgrace to our proper legends! He's not fit to lace their boots!

Don't be so silly mate. He wouldn't of got anywhere near rhe liverpool teams of the 70s and 80s Another one that thinks football started in 1992

And won nothing when playing! Waste of space!

You need to look up what a legend means! This useless player wasn't good enough to lace the boots of our true legends!

❤🇵🇸 YNWA

More LFC fans wanted him gone, he always was a bang average player !

My sons middle name is Sami. After Hyypiä. And I'm from Ireland

I wanted Lucas as first name but his mother said no 😅

B0ll0x

And how many of those tackles were fouls and gave the other team a free kick!? Leiva was useless!

@@paulcavanagh1294 Youve just seen the statistics,, which support most people's assessment of Lucas being a fantastic player for Reds. There is a separate category for "fouls conceded per season"- Lucas doesn't appear on it.- you're an idiot

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