Daniel Agger: Liverpool can only blame themselves for FA Cup final defeat 05/05/12
Liverpool star Daniel Agger has told talkSPORT that their performance for the first hour of their 2-1 FA Cup final defeat to Chelsea was 'not good enough'.
The Reds put in an abject showing until the introduction of striker Andy Carroll and even though the 23-year-old tried his hardest to single-handedly get his side a 2-2 draw to take the game to extra-time it just wasn't possible.
And the Danish defender insists that their poor performance was the only reason behind the defeat, dismissing the notion that Chelsea had outplayed them.
"We didn't show up for the first hour and that is not good enough in an FA Cup final," he fumed.
"The facts are that we lost this game 2-1 and we didn't lose it because Chelsea played well but I think because we started the game really, really badly.
"We can only blame ourselves."
Credit to TalkSport.
5th May 2012.