Seriously harsh to criticise Livermore for that first half. Was at the game and Phillips, Diangana and Sawyers all deserved way worse feedback than him.
Livermore won the ball and protected the defence as best as he could. Particularly considering a completely absent (offensively and defensively) Phillips, off the boil Diangana and (considering Albion had bugger all of the ball in the first half) near completely redundant Sawyers.
He's leaner, keener and clearly much more motivated this term and was no worse than anyone else in the middle other than the very good Perianha.