Not good enough for new captain

"Not good enough - not for Liverpool," summed up the new club captain. "We missed a few chances and could have saved a point at the end but Portsmouth really were the better team all over the place."

"They won all the second ball, all the scraps and they deserved all they got. So did we - nothing.

"All we can do is work at it and try to improve. It is, after all, early days in the season still."