Martin Jol felt we deserved to win at Liverpool after being denied by
Fernando Torres' header in injury time on Sunday.
Robbie Keane's double
strike - indentical goals from Paul Robinson clearances and Dimitar Berbatov
flicks - either side of the break cancelled out Andriy Voronin's early goal and
looked set to take us to our first league win at Anfield since 1993.
But the
curse of the late goal on our travels struck again as Steve Finnan's cross was
met by a towering header by Torres at the far post to level it. The board had
already gone up for three minutes added time.
It's the third time this season
we've been denied points on the road by late, late goals - at
Sunderland (0-1), Fulham (3-3) and now Anfield.
"Everyone has said we
deserved to win, and that is how we feel," reflected Martin.
"In the second
half we were on top and caused a lot of problems. That was good. They had
suffered a bad defeat against Marseille in midweek and we knew they would want
to do better and we expected a difficult match. "We then conceded a goal
like that at the beginning, which didn't help. After that and the shot from
Gerrard that hit the post (a free-kick after 28 minutes) I felt we did well to
come back into the game.
"In the second half we were better, winning the
ball in midfield, breaking quick and we scored a good goal with Robbie Keane
again and we thought it could be a great win.
"We've got a great spirit,
everyone can see that. We've travelled a lot and then had to go to Liverpool but
hopefully we'll take a lot of confidence out of this match."
Meanwhile,
Martin revealed that Darren Bent was sent home from Liverpool after picking up a
virus.
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