Liverpool are starting to worry me again but Arsenal lesson is now being learned

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In his latest column, John Aldridge looks at Liverpool's win over West Ham United and why Dominik Szoboszlai is more important than everIt would be pushing matters to suggest Liverpool didn’t deserve a comfortable victory against West Ham United on Saturday.But there were enough concerns for Arne Slot to drum into his players there is still a lot of room for improvement during the remaining few months of the season.One thing I was impressed with, though, was that we finally came out of the blocks fast. Perhaps Liverpool read this column last week when I was demanding they started games quicker.It was just as well, really, because West Ham put up a good account of themselves.

It was a little bit old-fashioned in that it was end to end at times with not much control and a lot of set-pieces, but it helped that it wasn’t a robotic match the like of which we’ve seen far too often this season at Anfield.West Ham came to play, and they were certainly more ambitious than those teams who defend deep and look to return with what they came with, although it did help that we scored early for once.Liverpool scored five but could easily have had seven. West Ham, though, could have had four or five goals themselves.There were some decent Liverpool performances and some average ones, and it was that kind of afternoon.

Arsenal could well win the title on the strength of such endeavours.And in Szoboszlai we have a player who can whip in a great delivery, as was seen on several occasions against West Ham at the weekend.Their goalkeeper was a bit of a flapper and the way Szoboszlai was whipping the ball into the six-yard box, it’s so hard to defend particularly when you have Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate attacking the ball.We’d had all sorts taking corners in the recent past to varying degrees of success. But with Mohamed Salah also decent at knocking the ball in, it’s no wonder we’ve started scoring more often from such positions.FOLLOW OUR LIVERPOOL FC FACEBOOK PAGE!