Hazard goal puts sorry Reds in Europa danger

LIVERPOOL manager Rafael Benitez insists his side can still progress in the Europa League despite a 1-0 defeat in their last 16 first leg against Lille last night.

Winger Eden Hazard curled an 85th-minute free-kick over the Liverpool defence and past a static Jose Reina inside the far post just when it seemed the visitors had weathered the storm. But it could have been far worse had substitute Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s shot not hit the post and gone wide late on.

Benitez had called for his players to show Monday’s defeat to Wigan had been an aberration and he felt they had done that.