Luis Suarez was in inspiring form yet again as Liverpool thumped Swansea 5-0 in the weekend's only English Premier League clash.
Goals from Steven Gerrard, Philippe Coutinho, Jose Enrique, Suarez and Daniel Sturridge gave Liverpool a morale-boosting victory after going five games without a win in all competitions.
The game was scheduled on the F.A. Cup weekend due to Swansea's engagements in the Capital One Cup final against Bradford next weekend.
Keeping the final at Wembley in mind, Michael Laudrup made several changes to his lineup at Anfield and Liverpool took complete advantage.
Suarez, after a bright initial opening, won the home side a penalty in the 34th minute after Kemy Agustien brought down the Liverpool forward inside the box. Gerrard stepped up and made no mistake whatsoever, as the Reds went into halftime with a deserved, albeit slender, lead.
The game was put to bed within the first ten minutes of the second period, though, with Coutinho first scoring his debut goal for Liverpool after latching onto a nice pass from, who else, Suarez.
Enrique made it 3-0, finishing off a nice team move before Suarez got his deserved goal in the 56th minute. Sturridge added the icing with a penalty of his own in the 71st minute as Liverpool climbed to seventh in the table, nine points behind fourth-placed Tottenham.
"It was a brilliant performance and it's a big applause to the players because their attitude was fantastic throughout the game," Rodgers said.
"It was important for us today for a clean sheet, believe it or not even though we scored five goals and I think we had 35 shots.
"It was our main focus going into the game was about being defensively solid and compact against obviously a Swansea team and players that I know very well.
"So all round a fantastic performance and a good three points for us."
Liverpool's win was tempered a little bit though by the fact that Fabio Borini has been ruled out for the rest of the season after suffering a shoulder injury.
"I think he'll be out for the season," Rodgers said. "It's unfortunate for Fabio because he has done his other shoulder before and had a similar thing so it looks like the early stages of that again, but the other shoulder which is a big disappointment.
"He came on for 15 minutes and looked quite bright in his movement and he worked very hard to try and stop the forward pass and obviously got injured."
