Kuyt: Confident of goals

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Dirk Kuyt is convinced Fernando Torres and Robbie Keane will soon start scoring for Liverpool despite their goalless draw against relegation favourites Stoke.

Tony Pulis' well-organised Potters side forced an unlikely goalless draw after which Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez suggested his side "needed more ability in the box."

The comment from Benitez came despite the multi-million pound signings of Torres, Keane and Kuyt in recent season.

The trio have played 23 games between them this term and notched a total of just two goals.

Quality

But Kuyt insists everything will come right soon and explains that Torres is still suffering from the after-effects of Spain's Euro 2008 win.

"The goals will come for Fernando and Robbie," insists Kuyt. "Both are trying hard, but Fernando has had an injury and the Euro 2008 finals to recover from. He lasted in them a bit longer than me!

"I went out in the quarter-finals with Holland, so I have had more rest and a better pre-season. Torres has not had that, but the goals will come again.

"Fernando is fit now. You can see his quality, as you can with Robbie. We have no worries, they will score plenty of goals."

Mistake

Kuyt also joined Benitez in criticising referee Andre Marriner's decision to disallow Steven Gerrard's free-kick goal for offside.

The goal would have been Gerrard's 100th for Liverpool and Benitez was the first to disapprove of Marriner's "massive mistake."

"It was a perfectly good goal, nobody touched the ball as it curled in and certainly not me," added Kuyt.

"I had no intention of doing anything because the ball was going in and it had not been flicked on or anything like that. I was not interfering with play.

"The referee said there was someone in the eye-line of the keeper who was offside."