Too many people come in here and on the basis of sweet eff all wax general (at times even lyrical) about how Lucas is finished or almost finished as CM. But Gerrard is our Pirlo, even though he's not been playing like Pirlo.
Based on one half of football in Allen's position, with WHU having specifically planned to take the game to us and press the living daylights out of our backline and Gerrard to prevent us from imposing a slow, deliberate, controlled rhythm to the game (see Allardyce's comments), no less.
This is madness.
Give up mate, all you do is defend Lucas on here. Admit he's not what he used to be and is really struggling at the moment.