Fuck my memory is failing me atm... scary.
So our mainstays were Gerrard, Henderson, and I assume Sterling? Then we basically rotated Coutinho and Allen (or maybe sometimes Sterling)? With Lucas as the main backup?
In 2014, our 'regular' central midfielders were Gerrard and Henderson. Whenever Allen was not available or had just returned from injury, we used Coutinho to partner Henderson in the '2' of a 1-2 or 1-2-1. Lucas was used as a substitute for Coutinho and Henderson, (almost) never in his best position.
Announcers are generally clueless wankers but it was indicative of how "weird" a choice it was that when (I believe it was against Aston Villa) Lucas was brought on in the second half (I don't remember for whom, I think it was Coutinho), the 'default' expectation was that he would slot in where Gerrard had been, and Gerrard would be 'pushed up'. It took quite a bit of time until the announcer and co-commentator cottoned on to the fact that there was not going to be a moving of Gerrard out of that DLPM role and spot. With no games other than the League games available, and with the magical run we were in, making winning the title a distinct possibility (given some peculiar results for CFC and MCFC, as well), BR was not going to mess with a winning formula.
When Henderson got the red card in the MCFC game, again BR chose to use Lucas in lieu of him and in his position, instead of moving Gerrard there, and Lucas in the 'controller' position. Everything was set up for that position to be DLPM not 'controller+DM'. We also had Sturridge injured and unavailable for a while.
I think we learned precious little about a 'normal', regular run of games, in a season with other competitions, and with our players not in devastating form from that time period.