PEPE REINA admits Liverpool didn’t deserve any more than a share of the spoils from Saturday’s dour stalemate at Blackburn Rovers.

The Spanish goalkeeper kept a third successive clean sheet at Ewood Park but insists he would have happily sacrificed that for maximum points.

Substitute David Ngog went close to breaking the deadlock when he struck the bar, while Nikola Kalinic wasted a glorious chance for Rovers late on.

“I would swap a clean sheet for a victory all day long,” Reina said.

“Apparently we are defending better now than we were and that is important but we have to win because that is what really matters.

“Having said that, if you cannot win then the next most important thing is not to lose, so at least we managed that.

“It was a very difficult game, a physical game. We had two or three chances but they also had a couple of chances. It was a tight game and in the end I think a draw was a fair result.”

The draw extended Liverpool’s unbeaten run in all competitions to six games but they slipped back to seventh in the Premier League.

Wednesday night’s meaningless final Champions League group game against Fiorentina is followed by a crunch league clash with Arsenal at Anfield next Sunday.

“Our target now is simple – to win the next game,” Reina added.

“When we get to May we will be able to talk about what we have or haven’t achieved, that is the time to talk about everything.

“It is always difficult when you play away from home, especially when the team you are playing against pushes from the very first minute.

“We knew that Blackburn would be like this and we wanted to control the game from the very beginning but we couldn’t and at times it was difficult to deal with the first ball and the second ball.

“We came under some pressure but in the second half we showed another face and we were a lot better.”