Liverpool legend Mark Lawrenson felt their Carling Cup win at Chelsea was the best they've played under Kenny Dalglish.

Lawro wrote in his column for the Liverpool Daily Post: "I thought it was the best Liverpool have played under Kenny Dalglish and they deserved to win.

"They were much better than at Chelsea last week, and it shows that slowly but surely Liverpool are back on the up.

"The game also said to a lot of the Premier League that City are not invincible. Liverpool forced all sorts of mistakes with a high-pressure display, and but for Joe Hart would certainly have got more than a point.

"Lucas Leiva was brilliant, absolutely fantastic. On Match of the Day, we had a segment on Liverpool's missed chances, but we could have done a piece alone on how good Lucas was."