Steven Gerrard admitted Liverpool were ‘not good enough’ as they crashed out of the Champions League at Anfield.
The Liverpool skipper scored a superb free-kick equaliser with nine minutes left after Basle star Fabian Frei had put the Swiss side ahead in the 25th minute.
But despite laying siege to the Basle goal in the closing minutes, Brendan Rodgers’ team, down to 10 men after substitute Lazar Markovic was sent off in the 60th minute, could not score the second goal that would have put them through to the last 16.
Gerrard said: ‘I don’t think that we deserved better. We have not gone out because of this performance. We weren’t good enough away to Basle and we let in a silly goal away to Ludogorets. You qualify over six games and we have not been good enough.’
Liverpool’s Group B campaign has delivered just one win in six matches.And now they face the prospect of Europa League action on Thursday nights in the new year as they try to salvage something from what has been a dismal season.– Daily Mail