Rodgers: Suarez 'genuinely trying to change his behaviour'

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is focusing on Luis Suarez’s rehabilitation while the club decide whether to appeal against his 10-match ban for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic.

Reds officials, who last night received the written report of the independent disciplinary panel, have until midday to opt to contest a punishment Rodgers described as “severe”.