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Brendan Rodgers does not expect Liverpool will see the best of Lucas Leiva until next season.
Yesterday's 5-0 hammering of Norwich City saw the Brazilian midfielder, 26, continue his impressive return from a thigh strain sustained in August, which arrived just months after he had returned from a cruciate knee ligament injury which sidelined him for the second half of the previous campaign.
And Rodgers predicts that Lucas, who will mark his sixth year at Anfield this summer, will recapture both his optimum form and fitness until the start of the 2013/14 calendar at the earliest.
He said: "I still don't think we're going to see the best of Lucas probably until next season.
"If you're out for a year, it takes a while to get back. Some people will tell you it'll take you another six months to a year to be back at your best.
"We're just trying to get him as many games as we possibly can and as many minutes as we can. But certainly him and Steven [Gerrard} in there (against Norwich) were fantastic."
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