and again they showed they hadn't. It would be wrong to blame one or the other but tactical indiscipline began to undermine Gerrard at Liverpool as well. Gerrard missed the second leg of the 2004-05 Champions League quarter-final against Juventus with a thigh injury. As Liverpool played out a goalless draw to win 2-1 on aggregate, with Xabi Alonso and Igor Biscan magnificently disciplined in central midfield, it was hard not to think how different it would have been had Gerrard been there. Instead of the careful, cautious sideways passes that frustrated Juventus, there would have - inevitably - been hopeful 50-yard balls, dashing surges and long-range strikes. Perhaps one or more would have come off, perhaps Liverpool would have won comfortably, but it would have been at the cost of the control Rafa Benitez so desired. Even in the final, in which Gerrard gave an awesome performance, scoring the first goal in the comeback and leading the charge against prohibitive odds, he was only released to play like that by the addition of Didi Hamann and the half-time switch to 3-4-1-2. From then on Benitez preferred always to play Gerrard off a front man in a 4-2-3-1. Having been seen as a box-to-box midfielder who could score a few goals, he began to be seen as an energetic attacking midfielder who could make the odd tackle. When he was good, he was still sensational. His performance in the 2006 FA Cup was one for the ages, as he scored