Among the Champions' League quarter-finalists there can be no such thing as a one-man team. Yet to hear the levels of respect for Steven Gerrard emanating from Chelsea in the last few days was to wonder whether Guus Hiddink might need to start talking him down rather than up.
In his capacity as manager of Russia, Hiddink himself is already on record as having voted for Liverpool's captain as the world's best player. "My focus was that Gerrard was a team player and on top of that he's very determined and decisive in what he's doing," he explained on Friday.
