Daniel Sturridge is certain he and Mario Balotelli can form a productive strike partnership after they returned to the starting 11 and the goals respectively against Tottenham.
England international Sturridge made his first start for more than five months and had a hand in goals Lazar Markovic and Steven Gerrard scored before Balotelli came off the bench to belatedly open his Premier League account for Liverpool with the winner in a 3-2 victory.
Balotelli and Sturridge combined well on the only occasion they have played together, August's 3-0 win at White Hart Lane, and the former Chelsea forward feels they can work well together.
"Course we can," he said. "I would say I can play with any player not just Mario. Whatever team the manager chooses I will do my best to ensure whoever I am playing with I can have a partnership with. We click anyway when we play so for me I try to adapt to the player I am playing with and try to bring out the best in him.
Balotelli has not started any of Liverpool's last 22 games in all competitions and manager Brendan Rodgers has tended to use one striker. But Sturridge, who formed a prolific partnership with Luis Suarez last season when they scored a combined 52 league goals, said he enjoys having company in attack.
"It is nice," he said. "I like playing with a partner, I also like playing on my own. It is down to whatever the manager chooses but it is important, whoever I am playing with, to help them play well.
"It is not just about me trying to do what I do -- in the Tottenham game [in August] I played a little bit different to how I did tonight because I know how [Philippe] Coutinho plays and he likes to thread balls through so I have to play on the shoulder a bit more.
"With Mario I can move around and go into wide areas because I know he will occupy the centre-halves. It is different, you play differently with different players and I am sure we will strike up a partnership in the future, I have no doubts about that."
Sturridge believes the goal could be a springboard for Balotelli and said the Italian, who joined for 16 million pounds from AC Milan in August, should be granted patience to get used to new surroundings.
He said: "It is not easy to settle into a new area, new lifestyle and different people around you. People don't take that into account. I just try to do my bit but I'm not taking any credit for him scoring, that is all down to him and I am happy he scored.
"He has been waiting for a while to break his duck but he has been working hard and I am sure things will start to go his way now."
Sturridge said he is not at peak fitness yet, but believes he is making progress, adding: "There are obviously still gears I can go more. This is my first start in five months so for me it is just important to get minutes under my belt."
