Monday, February 23, 2009

Carragher Not Giving Up On Liverpool Title Push


The iconic defender is not giving up on the Premier League title just yet, despite the crown seemingly slipping further from their grasp today.

Liverpool centre-back Jamie Carragher is refusing to admit defeat in his club's challenge to bring the league title back to Anfield for the first time in 19 years, after a disappointing 1-1 draw with Manchester City on Merseyside today appeared, to all intents and purposes, to have ended the Reds' hopes.

"Yeah, it is a big blow," Carragher told Sky Sports News. "We were five points behind before the weekend, which was something we try to cut over the weekend, but with Manchester United winning and us drawing it has gone the other way.

"We would have prefered to have gone three or four points behind and it is going to make it more difficult for ourselves, but there is still a long way to go."

Liverpool travel down the East Lancs Road themselves on March 14 to take on City's local rivals Manchester United in a game that many had pinpointed as being crucial to the eventual outcome of the Premier League.

After today's result, it may well turn out to be less vital than anticipated, but Carragher feels that a winning run centered upon that game will pull the Reds back into the mix.

"I think we are going to have to go on a great run to catch Man United but I think we are capable of that," he added.

"We have still got to go there and it looks like we are going to have to win there, which is going to be difficult as they are a great side Man Utd, but that is something we are going to have to do I think."

As for today's game, the former England defender felt that, although City deserved much credit, Liverpool had clearly not performed anything like their best.

"You have got to give credit to Man City but we probably never created as much as we have liked," he said.

"But to come back into it from 1-0 down we are pleased with that, we have done it a few times coming back this season but couldn't quite do it today."

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