We’ll be back among Euro elite, vows Rafa

RAFAEL BENITEZ has vowed to take Liverpool back into the Champions League as they prepare for the embarrassment of a dead rubber against Fiorentina tonight.

Liverpool are already out of this season’s competition having failed to finish in the top two in Group E, a humiliating experience for the five-time European Cup winners, who will now drop into the Europa League.

That will truly hit home at Anfield against an impressive Italian side who beat the Reds 2-0 in September at the start of a terrible run for Benitez and his side. Liverpool had won six on the trot ahead of the match in Florence, but have managed just two wins in 13 since.