Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Jamie Carragher Wants Liverpool To Improve Before The Premier League Begins


Liverpool were at the wrong end of a 3-0 scoreline against Spanish side Espanyol in a pre-season friendly. Jamie Carragher looked back on the match and expressed his concern over the Merseyside club's pre-season form, imploring his team-mates to improve before the Premier League begins.

“Obviously it was only a pre-season game but it was still a disappointing result for us because you never want to get beat,” the Reds' vice-captain has been quoted in the Liverpool Daily Post as saying.

“If you look at the first 20 minutes to half an hour then I suppose we were chasing shadows a bit during that spell and that’s all credit to them.

“From our point of view, we’ve still got a few players coming back into it and I think we felt it in the conditions out there.

“But sometimes in a game of football you lose and you just have to hold your hands up and admit that you were beaten by the better side on the night and this was one of those occasions, so full credit to them, they played very well."

When asked as to the reason behind the poor performance at the Cornella-El Prat, he said, "It was a mixture of things really, it just wasn’t our night but it’s getting closer to the season now and we’ve got a couple of weeks to put it right.

“That’s what these games are all about, and hopefully we’ll be ready when the season kicks off.”

Liverpool will play their next pre-season friendly against Norwegian side Lyn today.

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