Rafael Benitez was pleased with the character his Liverpool Football Club players displayed on Saturday afternoon.

The Reds lost Daniel Agger and Ryan Babel in the opening twenty minutes against Manchester City, yet they still went ahead when Martin Skrtel opened the scoring.

Goals from Emmanuel Adebayor and Stephen Ireland turned the game on its head, until Yossi Benayoun popped up to rescue a point for the home side.

“With the problems we had, making two substitutions in the first 18 minutes, to still come back we showed very good character. Until the last minute we were still pushing," Benitez told Sky Sports 1.

"The players worked so hard. You could still see the character of the team. In the circumstances I thought we were very good."

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