
A very disappointed Rafael Benitez said Liverpool got exactly what they deserved at Birmingham as they crashed to a 2-0 defeat.
The Reds manager refused to offer the excuse of tiredness after the international matches and even blamed himself for the loss.
Benitez said: "We are very disappointed because we didn't play well at all in 90 minutes. We never passed the ball, didn't win second balls and we never kept the ball. This was a very bad game for us and I am disappointed.
"If you analyse the manager and each player we didn't do our best. We didn't do things you need to win the game.
"We have problems away from home at the moment and I think we need to be a lot more physical than we are sometimes.
"I don't know if this is our worst performance of the season but it is certainly one of them. Our problem is we are not consistent. We won our last three games and had confidence then we play Birmingham and not one player played well."