Carroll Needs to Continue to Focus

'A flop; useless'. Just two of the descriptions applied to Andy Carroll during his time at Liverpool. That is, until his week of "glory", when he managed to snatch two late winners for the Reds, much to the delight of fans who like to watch football live.

Andy Carroll may well have just enjoyed one of the best weeks of his torrid spell on Merseyside, following his high-profile and widely ridiculed £35 million transfer from his boyhood club, Newcastle, where he was thought of as the long-term number nine for the team.

Carroll needs to find a way to ignore the newly-positive headlines, just as he should have tried to ignore the negativity that surrounded himself previously. 

After all, it has been a good week for the lad, but is Carroll now a top class striker who fits in perfectly with the way Liverpool play? Is he now a fixture of Top Scorer Betting? The answer almost certainly is a resounding "no". 

If the frontman is to perform at the level expected of a potential England player, he will need to start showing week-in, week-out that he can use his right foot effectively, get on the end of passes, and not just long balls, and move the football around skillfully.

All of this would hopefully culminate in the player banging in far more goals for his club and, if this becomes a reality, then we may start to see the return of a player who had been written off earlier in the year, and had even been linked with loan moves or a cut price exit from the club. 

Only then can Andy Carroll finally be written about in the press as a potential great, and possibly even a Liverpool legend, but let us not forget that even now, in a moment of glory for the young man, that is still a long, long way off.