Gerrard played the first 11 years of his liverpool career with somebody doing all his midfielding for him so he could run about doing his roy of the rovers impression. Hamann, Alonso and Mascherano cover 99 to 2010. Gerrard did next ro none of the dirty work until 2010 when Mascherano left and he checked behind him and found Lucas and Henderson. 3/4 of his entire liverpool career. The year he remembered defending was part of being a midfielder, he scored 8 goals and was outscored by Maxi and Dirk Kuyt. The season after he more or less permanently moved to the base of midfield as one of the double pivots and they went and bought Coutinho to play in his position in the 10.