Daily Mail: KD gives strikers a Stevie G up

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Kenny Dalglish has challenged his squad to follow Steven Gerrard's ruthless example as he looks to secure Liverpool's second trip to Wembley in two months.

Having endured a season when progress has at times been checked by a lacking of a cutting edge, Dalglish was elated to see things finally fall into place on Tuesday when Gerrard scored all the goals in a 3-0 win over Everton.

Liverpool's attack has struggled in the Barclays Premier League since the turn of the year but Dalglish does not feel one impressive performance means their troubles are over and wants to see others take the burden off his captain against Stoke.

When the sides last met in January, Tony Pulis' side snuffed out Liverpool's attack and Dalglish is well aware of the threat Stoke pose to his ambitions of adding the FA Cup to their Carling Cup win.

'The first thing to do is create the chances, the second is to believe we are good enough finish them off and the third thing is to put them away,' said Dalglish. 'You can go out in training and everything is fine and then you go into the match and there is nothing going in.

'We'll keep pushing ourselves forward and asking the question how to solve it. If we need two chances to get one goal, then fine. I didn't think we took all the chances we made because we still made a lot of chances, but you couldn't have asked for any more (from Gerrard).'

This is Liverpool's first appearance in the quarter-finals since they last won the FA Cup in 2006 and the significance of completing a domestic cup double has not been lost on Dalglish.

'The FA Cup was lost for a long time here,' he said. 'It was Shanks's first trophy (in 1965) that set the club rolling and that's where the momentum started to build. The FA Cup set this club on a path.'

Source: Daily Mail

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