Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers took another swipe at Chelsea's tactics yesterday.

Rodgers insists they were the only team at Anfield wanting to win on Sunday.

"We have a way of working and I take great pride in that," he said. "We might not have got the result but we've seen over the course of the season that we have made great strides and we'll continue to do that.

"When you win the game of course you will say you are the better team but certainly we were the better team because we were the ones wanting to win the game.

"I don't think there is any disputing that, but it is hard to reinforce that when you lose.

"What the game will do is prepare us for Crystal Palace. We will have to deal with long balls forward, which we did well.

"We will have to deal with long throw-ins, so we got the chance to do that.

"They will have lots of players behind the ball, which we will be prepared for as well."