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LIVERPOOL FC:ZAK HOPING FOR MORE FIRST TEAM ACTION

/noticias.info/ Zak Whitbread is hoping to use his impressive pre-season form as a platform to go on and challenge for a place in the Liverpool first team this season.
The young centre back hasn't looked out of place during the Reds' warm-up games and was rewarded with his full Champions League debut against FKB Kaunas in midweek.

Whitbread accepts he'll find it hard to dislodge Jamie Carragher or Sami Hyypia from the team, but he is keen for Rafael Benitez to see him as another option for his defence if needed.

"In the modern game you have to have a good squad with a number of players for every position so you have to accept competition for places," he said.

"My job is to put pressure on Sami and Carra so that the manager sees me as an alternative to them.

"But you only have to look at the way those two have played in the last couple of years to realise what a difficult job it would be to replace either of them.

"Hopefully, if I keep impressing the boss I will be involved in more games this season.

"I just have to keep on working hard in training and when I get a chance in games like I did against Kaunas." notas_de_prensa_archivo