Aurelio seeking improvement

Last updated : 21 January 2009 By Al Campbell
The Reds and the Bitters drew 1-1 in Monday's game and Aurelio says Liverpool must assess where they were making mistakes and learn from them in time for Sunday's FA Cup fourth round tie.

"It was a tough game and both sides were fighting for everything," said the Brazilian.

"I don't think it was a very good game in terms of the football that was played, but both teams put all of their effort into it.

"Of course, we are really disappointed because after taking the lead we expected to go on and win the game.

"We know that they have been scoring a lot of goals from set pieces and the fact that they were able to do so again so late in the game meant that we lost two points.

"But now the game is done we have to forget about it and look forward.

"There is nothing we can do to change it now so all we can do is focus on our next game which is again against Everton.

"That will give us the opportunity to show more than we did last night and hopefully we will go through to the next round of the cup.

"But we have to learn from our mistakes - that is always important, especially when you have conceded a late goal.

"It is always difficult to defend those kind of free-kicks, particularly when the opposition has a very good taker and good headers of the ball.

"But I think we can improve and this is what we will be working hard to do over the next few days."