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Everton defender Jagielka admits Europe step too far

Submitted by tribalfootball.com on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 07:38

Everton defender Phil Jagielka believes qualifying for the Europa League is beyond them this season.

The Blues were held 2-2 by Birmingham City on Saturday.

"Maybe, realistically, we were never going to be pushing for the European places," said Jagielka.

"The boys had some fantastic results which catapulted us back up the league and put those sorts of ideas back in people’s heads."

Jagielka added: "It is a missed opportunity. We needed to lay down a marker and hope results would go our way."

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