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Roy Hodgson admitted that he was delighted to beat former club Liverpool with his West Brom side, but was just focused on the result rather than revenge.\n<\/p>\n

The Baggies secured their first win over Liverpool for 30 years following Chris Brunt’s two penalties cancelling out Martin Skrtel’s opener to claim a 2-1 success.<\/p>\n

It also proved to be sweet revenge for the veteran boss, who was sacked from his post at Anfield in January following a poor run with the Merseyside giants.<\/p>\n

Hodgson played down the bonus of beating the club who fired him, instead paying tribute to his players for their battling performance.<\/p>\n

“Obviously games are built up always as a rivalry between managers, but it’s about what happens between the two teams really,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We were anxious today to put in a good performance and continue along the lines that we’ve been playing in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n

Deserved<\/h4>\n

“We knew in Liverpool we were facing a very tough team, a very good quality team, and we would have to be at our very best to take anything from the game, and I’m happy to report that I think we were at our best and we deserved to take the three points.<\/p>\n

“It came pretty much against the run of play, we had a really good spell for 25 minutes before half time where we took the game to Liverpool and looked pretty comfortable defensively.<\/p>\n

“We started the second half well, so when that corner came in and Skrtel bulleted his header into the net, you can be forgiven for thinking it was going to be one of those days.<\/p>\n

“But the players lifted themselves immediately, carried on playing, carried on our domination. I thought the passing through the midfield was very good and up front we had players with pace and ability that caused Liverpool’s defence problems.”<\/p>\n

Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish had admitted he was confused about the decision to award the second penalty, after Martin Atkinson’s assistant made the call rather than the referee himself.<\/p>\n

But Hodgson felt that the calls were clear, and that the result had been a huge boost for the club.<\/p>\n

Clear<\/h5>\n

“They were very clear weren’t they? In some ways it would have been nice had Odemwingie not been fouled and scored the first, then when he’d gone round the goalkeeper if he’d have knocked it into the back of the net without having to do it via a penalty,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“Penalties can always be controversial; even with the most obvious penalties sometimes these days can inject an element of controversy.<\/p>\n

“But I’ve got to say it’s been a long time since I’ve seen two clearer penalties than that.<\/p>\n

“It was a red letter day. We are a modest club and we do realise when you entertain, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool you are looking down the barrel of a gun and that you’ve got to produce something extra special if you’re going to come out of it with a smile on your face.<\/p>\n

“The players did the club proud with their performance, they’re very happy in the dressing room and they’re entitled to be.<\/p>\n

Hodgson felt that the race to stay up was not over yet, despite seeing his team having now accumulated the most in a season in their Premier League history, but felt they could take heart from recent results.<\/p>\n

“We can forget 40 points; we’ve got to look beyond that and keep trying to take points in every game we play,” Hodgson added.<\/p>\n

“And we should take confidence that if we’re good enough to take points from Liverpool and Arsenal, albeit at home, then hopefully we can take points from other teams as well.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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