article_snippet: Kolo Toure (left) hit the back of the net for Reds in the first half
article_snippet: but Kolo Toure (left) strike was ruled out for offside . '
article_snippet: In games like this sometimes in that opening 20 minutes, if you can get the first goal, the first goal opens the game up. '
article_snippet: You could argue when [Rudy] Gestede handballs it off the header from the free-kick, we could have had another penalty, and sometimes you need that little bit of luck. '
article_snippet: They have got some good players - Gestede gives you a problem up front - but
article_snippet: I thought in the main, we dealt with that really, really well. '
article_snippet: I thought maybe the sharpness was just missing from we game and that wee bit of incision.
article_snippet: But credit to the players, the players kept a clean sheet and the objective was to be in the hat for the next round by the end of the evening, and that's what we are in.'
article_snippet: Simon Mignolet (centre) made a superb save to tip an Alex Baptiste header away in the second half .
article_snippet: You have got to be tight to these players and that's what I was.'
article_snippet: had it not been for a fine 49th-minute save by keeper Simon Mignolet to claw Alex Baptiste's header out of the top corner.
article_snippet: Alex Baptiste's said: 'I was free at the top corner.
article_snippet: and I thought it was in, to be honest.'