Benitez Job ‘Safe’ as Liverpool Crash out of CL

Liverpool FC’s 0-1 against Hungarian Champions league debutants was not enough to prevent the EPL club crashing out of this year’s competition. It is their first failure to progress out of the group stages in six years. As third place finisher, Liverpool will now play in the newly named Europa Cup, a second string European money maker for also rans.

A Juan Vargas penalty in the 29th minute was enough for Fiorentina to sink Olympique Lyon and ensure that second place spot for the Serie A side from Florence.

The failure to qualify is estimated to cost Liverpool $5m and to make things worse, their next game is away to Merseyside rivals Everton, whose fans are unlikely to be able to resist the temptation to rub it all in.

Nonetheless, the Liverpool FC Board has assured Benitez and the press that they are not thinking of replacing the Spaniard as head coach of the struggling club,

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