Lucas
Has any player come ‘back from the dead’ as many times as Lucas for Liverpool? Once upon a time, the hard-working Brazilian was booed by the Kop, and he was was pulled out of first-team action for some time as a result.
Hugely impressively though, Lucas fought back – proving his doubters wrong by improving his defensive characteristics and developing himself into one of the country’s premier anchoring midfielders. In 2010/11 he won the Liverpool Player of the year award – and if injuries hadn’t curtailed his progress on more than one occasion, he would have continually improved.
Even this term, when many fans had written him off due to his seeming inability to play our fast-paced passing brand of football, the Brazilian stepped up when called upon and was instrumental in our superb run of recent form. Injured again, let’s hope Lucas can find it in him to bounce back once more.
