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Liverpool injury list lengthens

Liverpool stars Fernando Torres and Xabi Alonso both suffered re-occurrences of their injuries during Arsenal's visit to Anfield.

Steven Gerrard fired the Reds ahead from an early free-kick before Arsenal deservedly levelled through Cesc Fabregas with 10 minutes left.

However, after the game manager Rafael Benitez revealed the Spanish duo of Torres and Alonso had both aggravated their recent problems - while Javier Mascherano also joined them on the injury list.

The former Sociedad midfielder was in his first match back after breaking a metatarsal while Torres, who was replaced by Peter Crouch at half-time, has been nursing a thigh complaint.

The Reds boss said: "Alonso has suffered the same injury again, the metatarsal, he felt something go in his foot. Torres also has a similar injury, a problem with an abductor muscle.

"Maybe he is not as bad as before. But he could not work as hard as we wanted, we wanted his pace and it was not available.

"He just was not fit. We talked beforehand and he said he was fine. Now we must wait again, he had been out for some time and we have been pushing to get him back, but he has not been right and he still is not right.

"We will need to check them all before we have any idea how long they will be out."

Benitez, after so much criticism since the midweek defeat to Besiktas in Istanbul, was happy with his side's efforts.

He said: "If you analyse our chances, we can say we lost points. But if you look at the game you know they deserved to score.

"A draw is good for both teams, but we felt at 1-0 ahead we had enough chances to have grabbed a second and that would have been crucial.

"We had problems when we lost Torres and then Alonso. We could not control the midfield then, we also had Mascherano with a foot injury and had lost Sissoko beforehand with sickness.

"In the end there were too many problems against a really good team."