Unlucky Reds crashes out of UEFA Cup

Liverpool lost 1-0 in last week's first leg in a dull game of few chances and the Kop's legendary manager challenged his team to do better or see their Euro dream die. The Reds did start brightly with Andy Carroll putting himself about and Maxi Rodriguez and Joe Cole providing the early trickery.
Cole, playing on the left wing, almost opened the scoring in the seventh-minute but his sharp shot from a Carroll flick-on was well saved by Braga's Brazilian keeper Artur.
The rebound fell to Carroll whose first-time effort was blocked by Miguel Garcia and from the resulting corner the Reds' £35million record buy rose powerfully but headed just past the wrong side of the post.
Another Raul Meireles corner, this time to the near post, saw Carroll shoot from deep inside the penalty area but again he was narrowly wide of the mark.
Braga weathered the early storm and Rodrigo Lima got their first shot on target on the quarter-hour but it was easily gathered by Pepe Reina.
Alan was the next to have a go at the Kop end but his long range effort drifted wide to the left of the goal.
Braga defender Alberto Rodriguez was then slightly fortunate not to give away a spot-kick when he made no attempt to play the ball and sent Lucas tumbling after a superb ball into the area by Meireles.
The Portuguese side continued to frustrate Liverpool and cause more than a few scares at the other end.
As the game wore on the lack of spark usually provided by injured skipper Steven Gerrard and cup-tied hitman Luis Suarez became more and more apparent.
Carroll's annoyance boiled over on 51 minutes when he kicked out at Alberto Rodriguez behind the goal-line after the Braga man had used his body to shield the ball out for a goal-kick.
He was booked, as was Paulao for his part in the resulting melee as Braga players demanded a red card from referee Gianluca Rocchi.
Meireles wasted a great chance soon after when he got his header horribly wrong from Dirk Kuyt's pinpoint cross.
But if that was bad, moments after Braga striker Alan fluffed a sitter. Silvio's dragged shot was going well wide until it fortuitously ricocheted off a team-mate's legs and fell to Alan but he could not convert from five yards.
Vandino's yellow card for time-wasting, when he stopped for a chat while he was being substituted, summed up the fact Braga were happy to protect their one-goal lead.
Dalglish then made a double change of his own with Jay Spearing and David Ngog coming on for Maxi Rodriguez and Cole.
Ngog almost made an immediate impact but Silvio made a superb challenge and it had to be as it was just inside the box.
The Reds turned up the pressure at the end with Carroll's goalbound header hitting Kuyt and bouncing away before Martin Skrtel's follow-up was brilliantly smothered by Artur.
And in injury time Ngog was millimetres away from a touch, which he should have got, that would have given the Reds a leveller they would not have deserved.
The Anfield outfit can have no complaints about going out after failing for 180 minutes to find a way past Braga.
So it is Jose Domingos' side who go in tomorrow's draw for the quarter and semi-finals of the Europa League — and not the side who lifted this trophy back in 2001.