Liverpool: Victor Moses Can Follow Daniel Sturridge's Path to Success

You could have been forgiven for offering a penny for the thoughts of a Chelsea fan on Monday night.

Just over 48 hours after they watched their team pass up several opportunities in failing to score in a defeat at Everton, they saw two men the club have let go in the past 12 months find the net for the other team from Merseyside.

Against Swansea City, Daniel Sturridge scored his 17th goal in 21 appearances since leaving Stamford Bridge for Anfield in January, a run which includes 12 strikes in his last 10 games.

His form was made made possible by being given a stage upon which to shine.

There is no brief window of 20 minutes here or there which he often got at Chelsea. He knows he’s in the Liverpool starting lineup and that he’s going to be staying there regardless of what happens. He’ll even be there when Luis Suarez returns from suspension next week.

Such confidence clearly breeds results, and Brendan Rodgers will now hope that the same applies the other signing from Chelsea who scored for Liverpool on Monday night, Victor Moses.

True, his is only a loan move, so the Blues could call him back at the end of the season, but like Sturridge before him, the Nigerian winger would have been frustrated at playing a bit-part role in the west Londoners’ plans.

Moses actually scored 10 goals for Chelsea last season, but given that only one came in the Premier League and the majority came after climbing off the bench they perhaps weren’t noted too carefully. That has already changed at Liverpool.

He needed just 36 minutes of his Reds career before registering his debut strike―already echoing memories of Sturridge who took just seven minutes to net on his Reds bow against Mansfield in the FA Cup last January.

The manner in which Moses took possession of Jonjo Shelvey’s loose pass―not his first of the evening―and glided on to score almost effortlessly was terrific to see, and there can’t be any fair-minded football fan, or human being, who doesn’t enjoy seeing goals like that from a player who had such a difficult and heartbreaking start to life, documented by the Daily Mirror.

At Anfield, Moses might just be given the stage to shine that he’ll have been craving ever since his days in the youth team at Crystal Palace.

His move from Selhurst Park to Wigan in January 2010 saw his first exposure to Premier League life, but perhaps his subsequent switch to Chelsea from the Latics last summer came a little too soon for him.

Like Sturridge, Moses can now benefit from taking what is not necessarily a step back―Liverpool’s worldwide fanbase and fanatical support can never let it be seen as that―but more a step away from the fierce competition for places at Stamford Bridge.

At Liverpool he’ll be encouraged to keep the ball, to cut inside and to score goals, and all without the prospect of another player just waiting for him to slip up so he can come in to replace him.

On the rare occasions that Moses started at Chelsea he would have known that it was only going to be a temporary thing, but at Anfield he can sustain long runs in the team and build confidence as a result.

Of course Liverpool have the likes of Raheem Sterling and Iago Aspas who can play in the position that Moses is likely to make his own on the left-hand side, but with the greatest of respect to two very good players, they aren’t yet an Eden Hazard or an Oscar.

Moses can flourish at Liverpool and has made a pretty good start in his attempts to do just that.

Now if he can keep on following Sturridge’s path to success then Liverpool and Brendan Rodgers will have got themselves a very good player for this season, and they’ll hope for a few more seasons to come.