PEPE: LET'S SEE THE REAL LIVERPOOL

Jimmy Rice 26 November 2007

Pepe Reina is sure he and his teammates have the quality to progress to the second round of the Champions League.
The Reds have to record wins at home to Porto on Wednesday and away in Marseille in two weeks' time.

Reina, though, is confident.

"We are third in the group now and need to register two more wins," said the 25-year-old, who hasn't conceded in four games. "That will not be easy but if we play our real game then we know that will be enough.
"We must win in Marseille, but we must deal with Porto first. There is no point in looking further ahead than that.

"When the team won the trophy back in 2005, in the group stages they managed to get to 10 points, and that was enough. We must aim for that total again, and that will also be enough.

"That run to the final should be a mirror for us. We can look at it as an example of how the situation can be resolved."

Reina was still at Villarreal when Liverpool prevailed in Istanbul, but he was around to share in the disappointment of last season against the same opposition in Athens.

It is an experience he does not want again.

"I have not really looked at that DVD, it is in the past, we lost it and we must forget it and keep going.

"People say we were unlucky in Athens, but in the end Milan won. If we get to the final again we must make sure we do not finish with that same feeling.

"But before we can even think about things like that we must make sure we win these last two group games, we must reach the knock-out rounds before thinking ahead to any more finals."