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The Liverpool captain Jamie Carragher insists that Lyon will not be concentrating on the effect on Liverpool of their game against Fiorentina, but will simply want to win the game for themselves.

Lyon’s aim is to finish top of the group and, hopefully, get an easier game in the first knockout round, Carragher said last night in the pre-match press conference.

“Lyon don’t need to do us a favour – they need to do themselves the favour of winning the group. I’m sure that’s what they’ll want to do.” he said.

“They’re not playing for Liverpool, they’re playing for themselves like we do.

“I’m sure in the Champions League they’ll want to finish top of a group that includes Liverpool, Fiorentina and Debrecen.

“Sometimes it works out that you get an easier opposition in the next round if you finish top, sometimes it doesn’t work that way, but every game you play in you want to win.”

“We’ve always been able to sort the problems out ourselves but it doesn’t change anything for us,” he added.

“Hopefully the other game will go our way but we’ve got to look after ourselves and get the three points.

“We always believe at this club that we can do special things. We’ve done it with this team and this manager over the last four or five years but doing things like this has been part of the club for a long time now.

“We’ve left ourselves in a little bit of a hole but hopefully we can get out of it. It’s been done before, hopefully we can do it again.

“We don’t know what’s going to happen over the next two games.

“And it’s not just about the Champions League and getting a win here – it’s also about confidence and getting the team playing well again because we’ve got to look forward to a big game against Everton at the weekend as well.

“We’re not on a great run at the moment, so we need to get a result and good performance to get the confidence back.”