Liverpool defender Daniel Agger calls on struggling team-mates to 'stick together'

Daniel Agger has admitted that Rafael Benítez's Liverpool players must "stick together more than ever" after describing Saturday's 2-0 defeat at Portsmouth as "not good enough" for the club. Benítez's position as manager at Anfield is now coming under intense scrutiny with the Fratton Park defeat Liverpool's seventh in the league this season leaving the club eight points adrift of a Champions League spot. Liverpool are relying on a top-four finish to secure Champions League qualification following their elimination at the group stage of this season's competition. But with Wolves due at Anfield on Boxing Day, followed by a potentially crucial trip to fourth-placed Aston Villa next Tuesday, Danish defender Agger admits that Liverpool simply cannot afford a repeat of the Portsmouth performance. Agger said: "We are extremely disappointed and we know that it [the Portsmouth defeat] simply wasn't good enough for this club. "We have got to change this around. It didn't happen against Portsmouth, but we can't let it go on any further. "Why is this happening? It's a bit of everything I suppose, but we have got to try and get some confidence from somewhere soon. You get that by winning games but we are not doing that at the moment. "It's always a question of sticking together and we need to do that now more than ever."

Source: Telegraph