Daniel Agger thinks Liverpool will soon be back to winning ways if they match the effort shown in Lyon on Wednesday night.

The French side scored a cruel equaliser with seconds to spare as Liverpool missed out on three Champions League points which would have left qualification from Group E in their own hands.

Agger is refusing to blame the result on bad luck - but claims Liverpool fans can take some heart from the performance ahead of Monday's Barclays Premier League clash at home to Birmingham.

"You get what you deserve in football and you have to look at closing the game down otherwise you get punished in the way we did in Lyon," said Agger.

"Now we have just got to look forward to the Birmingham game to get going. If we keep playing with the effort we did in Lyon, we hope the situation will turn for us.

"It's always so difficult to accept when you lose two points in the manner we did so late in a game.

"We were all so disappointed. We might have controlled the game but it's no consolation; you've got to keep working hard until the last minute.

"But we have to keep believing. We have got to go into the next two games, make sure that we win them and then take it from there."

Agger had been a doubt ahead of the Lyon game with a back injury.

But he added: "Physically I feel okay. I wanted to play and I do all I can to play in every match, as all the lads do here. But sometimes it's not going to happen."