PARIS. — Under-pressure Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said he always believed his side’s Champions League soccer fate would come down to the last match at home to FC Basle and he has been proved right.

Liverpool conceded a late equaliser in a 2-2 draw away to Bulgarian side Ludogorets on Wednesday, leaving them with a paltry four points from five matches in Group B.

Yet victory over the Swiss side on December 9 at Anfield will secure a place in the last 16 for Rodgers’ misfiring side.

“Of course we’re frustrated at the end because we had defended very well and at 2-1, it could have been three or four,” Rodgers, whose side languish in 12th place in the Premier League, told reporters.

“But we have come away with a point, while Real Madrid beat Basle.

“At the beginning of the competition, we said that it would probably come down to the last game and to have the last game at Anfield to win and qualify, I’ll take that.

“All you can ever ask for is your fate in your own hands, and that was the key thing for us tonight – to try to make that swing so that it is down to us.” — AFP

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