Source: Team_Talk
Gerrard: We deserved more
Steven Gerrard felt Liverpool deserved more from Sunday's 3-2 defeat at Manchester United after his two goals dragged them back into the game.[LNB] Trailing to Dimitar Berbatov's header just before half-time and a brilliant overhead kick 14 minutes after the interval the England midfielder looked to have salvaged a point with a little help from Fernando Torres.[LNB]The Spain international was brought down by Jonny Evans in the penalty area and was then pulled back by John O'Shea to present Gerrard with a 20-yard free-kick which he curled through the wall for his second goal in a six-minute spell.[LNB]However, Berbatov had the final say when he rose to head home his hat-trick in the 84th minute.[LNB]"I think when you recover a two-goal deficit at Old Trafford you feel really good and you fancy yourself to hang on in there and get a fantastic point," said Gerrard.[LNB]"But Berbatov completed his hat-trick - he was the difference and his second goal was world class.[LNB]"We're disappointed with the result but really pleased with how we played and disappointed to go away within nothing."[LNB]Gerrard confidently stroked home the penalty before threading an inch-perfect free-kick through the smallest gap in United's defensive wall.[LNB]He admitted he may have been slightly fortunate with the second.[LNB]"I saw how he (Edwin van der Sar) set the wall up and the idea was for me to try to get it over," he added.[LNB]"But you see so many free-kicks where walls break or they go through gaps and if you hit the target you get your reward and I got that."[LNB]Manager Roy Hodgson was left to rue some slack defending late in the game which cost Liverpool what would have been a confidence-boosting draw.[LNB]"I thought we came close to getting a point," he said.[LNB]"The merits of that would have been hotly debated; the Manchester United fans saying it was a steal and the Liverpool fans saying it was well deserved.[LNB]"But we are bitterly disappointed. When Steven scored with 20 minutes to go we were playing well at that stage and harboured hopes of even getting a win.[LNB]"To concede a third goal, when for half an hour we had not looked under that pressure, is hard to accept.[LNB]"You always know Manchester United is going to be a difficult game to come with away something.[LNB]"So my feelings are ones of great disappointment because we got so near after being 2-0 down, and that would have been something really worth having."[LNB]The defeat, Liverpool's second of the season and second in Manchester inside a month, leaves them 16th in the Barclays Premier League table, although still only three points behind fourth-placed Manchester City.
