Please tell me you put that in out of grudging polite respect for such a wonderful club servant and not because you felt he merited it on his night's quite shocking overall performance [free kick and one run apart]
I do disagree. I think Gerrard was one of our better players on the night but lets put it another way.
No Liverpool player played especially well on the night. I'd probably give Sterling 6/10 as our best player over the 90 minutes. The reason none played well is (i) Basel stopped us playing with their pressing and (ii) when we got the ball we couldn't keep hold of it let alone work many scoring chances. That is symptomatic of the malaise of our play for the last 2 months.
Anyway, the point I was trying to make is that, on the night, if I was Basel manager looking at our team, the only Liverpool players who showed enough athleticism, technique and "will to win" to even warrant being considered good enough to get in the Basel side, were Sterling, Gerrard and Moreno.
Before you think I am blind to Gerrard's shortcomings, I wasn't happy with him at all in the first half when he berated Lambert and Sterling for having the temerity to not be on the end of a couple of his slightly wayward passes. In my opinion, this has been a defect in his captaincy for years. He only ever berates the perceived "weaker" members of the team.