Daniel Agger Wants Liverpool To Find Self-Belief Ahead Of Birmingham City Clash

Dane wants Reds to show fighting spirit at Anfield on Monday evening…

06-Nov-2009 9:04:20 PM

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Liverpool defender Daniel Agger is taking heart from the Reds' positive performance against Olympique Lyonnais this week, despite the disappointing result – a 1-1 draw placed the Merseysiders' hopes of progress in the Champions League in severe doubt.

"You get what you deserve in football and you have to look at closing the game down otherwise you get punished in the way we did in Lyon," he told the club's official website.

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"Now we have just got to look forward to the Birmingham game to get going. If we keep playing with the effort we did in Lyon, we hope the situation will turn for us.
 
"It's always so difficult to accept when you lose two points in the manner we did so late in a game.
 
"We were all so disappointed. We might have controlled the game but it's no consolation; you've got to keep working hard until the last minute.
 
"But we have to keep believing. We have got to go into the next two games, make sure that we win them and then take it from there."

Liverpool welcome Birmingham City to Anfield on Monday night and Agger is expecting to be fit for the game after playing in Lyon.

He added: "Physically I feel okay. I wanted to play [in Lyon] and I do all I can to play in every match, as all the lads do here. But sometimes it's not going to happen."

Zack Wilson, Goal.com UK

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