LIVERPOOL FC 4 BURNLEY 0

No chance of lightning striking twice here as a pretty ruthless Reds display sent a non-descript Burnely side packing.
Not that we can get carried away - it's picking up three points away at tricky places like Villa, Stoke and West Ham which will most likely decide the destiny of this year's Premiership crown.
So, what did we learn from Saturday?
First and foremost was the universal acceptance that Yossi Benayoun could and should play a massive part in our title charge this year.
The Israeli, as we've said before, should be one of the first names on the team sheet.
The midfielder has so much class and ability, among a crowd of Liverpool players who can sometimes be frustratingly workmanlike, that his inclusion from the start, home and away, is a must for me.
People may talk about him not being a natural right midfidler or winger, but with Johnson in situ now, the Englishman and Israeli represent the perfect balance.
Pace out wide from Johnson, the jinking and cuttng inside from Yossi, supporting Torres and Gerrard at every opportunity.
It's a match made in heaven.
Plus, the little man seems to have found the appetite for the tackle and tracking back.
I remember once occasion on Saturday when it was Yossi who appeared in the left back slot, to end a promising Burnely move when Riera ambled nonchantly back.
Give Kuyt a new role up front alongside an increasingly pissed off Torres and you've probably got Liverpool's best starting line-up, certainly until Aquilani comes off the treatment table.

Benayoun won the Man of the Match hands down, and he was only really threatened by a strong second half display from Gerrard.
The skipper's lung busting run, full of power and pace, which set up Yossi's second, was truly world class.
Other than that, there were few other notable showings.
What's to be made of Riera? The Spaniard is a mixture of invention and idiotic play.
The jury is still very much out.
We think back to his heady debut at Anfield against Man Utd when his tricks and runs promised much for his future Liverpool career.
Frustratingly, Riera can be up one week, but down the next.
For every PSV Eindhoven/Preston/Villa screamer which roars into the net, there's a performance of deadening indifference.
I'd keep playing Riera on the left, as the Reds need all the attacking weapons they can get on the field, and there's no better options, but we need to see more consistent displays from him.

As for Torres, it just didn't happen for the number nine, and the afternoon was made up of sulks, annoyance and ineffectiveness.
The centre forward didn't appear interested half the time, and he spent much the time staring at his bootlaces rather than making things happen.
Still, we can forgive El Nino the odd off day, although I reckon much of his frustration comes from having to plough the lone furrow, without a second striker to share the buffeting from clogger centre halves.

Elsewhere, Insua showed again he is impressive bombing forward and Kuyt delivered his usual 7 out of 10 showing.
Of more interest was the appearance of some of the lesser lights, Voronin and Degen for example.
We've hardly seen anything of The Swiss Glassman due to constant injury, but in his 20 minute cameo, he demonstrated how he knows how to attack, overlap his midfield colleague and get to the byline.
That in itself was promising, and while he'll no doubt crumble like a wall of chalk when asked to defend, he does seem to have some attacking instinct.

As for Voronin, my heart almost went out to the big Ukranian when he chipped that sitter wide in front of The Kop.
The pony-tailed one was almost having a half-decent half an hour, with his intelligent one-twos and dinked through balls.
It was his cute ball which set up Yossi's hatrick. A goal for Vornin himself at Anfield might have bought him some goodwill from the Anfield faithful.
But his woeful finish, when walking around the keeper to tap in, would have surely have been easier, consigned him to more barracking and piss taking from the crowd.

So 4-0 at home against a side who have beaten Man Utd and Everton on their own ground.
The kind of fixture we might have only drawn last season, a la Stoke, Fulham and West Ham.
Still, it was more than a touch frustrating to see Chelsea pull it out of the fire again with Malouda striking in the 94th minute against Stoke.
And Man Utd themselves showed that Spurs at White Hart Lane doesn't have to be the onerous fixture which it looked for us when we were engulfed on the first day of the season.
At least Arsenal lost, but that has only allowed for the continual emergence of Man City as genuine title contenders this year.
Let's hope the Eastlands boys can do us similar favours when they come up against the likes of Man Utd and Chelsea.
Onwards.