"It was good to have the confidence booster of a performance like that against Bolton," said Pennant.
"Maybe it was one of my best performances since joining Liverpool. It's good to get a game like that under my belt.
"I feel I'm winning more of the fans over now with performances like that. I think when I arrived everyone hoped I would kick straight into action, but sometimes it takes time to get used to playing in front of the crowd and the different players. Now I feel things are coming along better.
"It's a new year and I hope I'm now going to continue with those kinds of performance.
"Things have gone quite well for the team lately, particularly in moving to third. We know some performances could have been better. That includes myself as much as other players, but we've all stuck in there and been grinding results out. If we continue to play as we are, I'm sure we'll stick around the top three.
"We look back at that Blackburn game now and know if we'd won that we would be right on the heels of Chelsea. That's frustrating because we were all over Blackburn on that day and had enough attempts on goal.
"After that it was all about keeping our confidence and picking up more points and that's what we've done."