Friday, 17th October, 2014
Brendan Rodgers has stressed that only a last minute stunner by Everton’s Phil Jagielka has stopped Liverpool from being in the top four.
The England defender scored a stunning long ranger at Anfield last month to deny all three points to Rodgers’ team. The Reds have made a stuttering start to the new campaign and are currently sitting in ninth in the Premier League on ten points; but they are still only a point away from Manchester United, who are occupying fourth spot.
Rodgers is not too bothered about their current league position and said that if not for Jagielka’s last minute stunner, Liverpool would have been in the top four.
"I am quite relaxed. We will look where we are after ten games”, the Liverpool manager said in a press conference.
“If Phil Jagielka does not score a wordlie in the last minute when we play Everton then we are two points better off and in the top four.”
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Liverpool lost Luis Suarez to Barcelona this summer and the Northern Irishman explained that it will take some time for the club's new signings to adapt to English football. However, he is confident that the squad will get better over the course of the campaign.
"We lost a world class player in the summer and brought in some others and that takes a little time to bed down.
"But the players here are absolutely magnificent in their desire to be better.
“I would prefer for progress to be steady because we will get there."
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