Reds out and Rafa’s woes deepen

LIVERPOOL crashed out of the Champions League after a bitterly disappointing victory in the Hungarian capital last night. They needed to win to give themselves any chance of reaching the last 16, but events in Florence ended those dreams with Fiorentina achieving the victory they needed to qualify.

David Ngog scored Liverpool’s early winner, but they struggled painfully to produce a convincing display, the damage having been done in two games against Lyon that cost them four points.

Manager Rafael Benitez said: “We had to do our job today. Our job was to win and we won but we couldn’t control the other game,” he added.