Benitez: We're not feeling pressure

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The Reds had looked on course to collect the three points that would have moved them above Manchester United and back to the Premier League summit after Steven Gerrard's opener, but a late equaliser from Tim Cahill meant Benitez's side remain behind their north-west rivals on goal difference having also played a game extra.

Despite that the Liverpool boss still maintained: "The players believe they can challenge for the title. You are not suffering from pressure after leading until three minutes from time."

He added: "It is not pressure to be level on points with Manchester United in January.

"We are disappointed with how we defended against that late free-kick, and disappointed with giving a free-kick away at that stage so close to our box. It could have been avoided."

Yossi Benayoun had needlessly conceded that free-kick for a foul on Victor Anichebe.

"I will have to look at that incident again, but we had talked about not conceding free-kicks in that sort of area because Everton's set-plays are good," Benitez added. "But we are still level with United and we know we can play better.

"We will improve as we get more of our injured players back, we still believe we can challenge for the title."

Everton boss David Moyes believed that his side deserved their goal and the hard-earned point.

It extended Everton's unbeaten run to seven games and Moyes said: "We showed what we have been doing now for a few weeks. We played with confidence and a draw was certainly a fair result."