It does show the folly of Rodgers' selection last week though. A full strength Liverpool team get very well earned draws at the Emirates and Etihaad (and could possibly even say they should have won at leats one of them) and bomb out of the FA cup with a weakened team. To be fair it probably says more about the attitude to the FA cup from some teams but given it was a great chance for silverware for livepool i'm a bit surprised. Still, that shouldn't take away from two very good results this week and I personally think they're definitely on a real upward curve if not this season then for those to come - which is a shame really.