Liverpool face an uphill struggle as they travel to Debreceni to escape early elimination from this season's Champions League.
Five times champions Liverpool must win to have any hope of reaching the last 16 but they also need France's Olympique Lyon, who are already through, not to lose against Fiorentina in Italy. Lyon have 10 points from four matches in Group E, Fiorentina are on nine and Liverpool four.
Liverpool, who can ill afford to miss out on the lucrative final stages, are already without key striker Fernando Torres but are confident England full-back Glen Johnson will have recovered from a calf injury by Tuesday.
Israeli Yossi Benayoun, who came back from a hamstring injury to score the equaliser on Sunday, should also be fit while Benitez refused to rule out Babel and Agger.
Still point-less, Debrecen's hopes of qualification have already evaporated and they will definitely finish bottom of the group unless they beat Liverpool. The Hungarian titleholders are one of only two teams in the competition still to garner a single point.
Debrecen manager Andras Herczeg will be without key player Leandro, who is suffering from a partially torn knee ligament and could be out for a month or two. Either Zsolt Laczko or Marcell Fodor is likely to take the left back's position.
Norbert Meszaros had recovered from a groin injury but forward Robert Feczesin is still injured. Montenegro keeper Vukasin Poleksic was rested for Friday's 2-1 away win at Honved but should start against Liverpool.
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Liverpool crashed out of the Champions League after a bitterly disappointing victory in the Hungarian capital.
hey needed to win to give themselves any chance of reaching the last 16, but events in Florence ended those dreams with Fiorentina achieving the victory they needed to qualify. David Ngog scored Liverpool's early winner, but they struggled painfully to produce a convincing display, the damage having been done in two games against Lyon that cost them four points.
The Reds' reliance on Lyon to make a game of it in Florence proved misplaced and they failed for the first time in six seasons under Benitez to reach the last 16. It was the end result everybody expected on the night but Liverpool left the Hungarian capital deflated.
Liverpool had Glen Johnson and Fabio Aurelio back from injury, otherwise it was the same side that drew with Manchester City on Saturday - with Ryan Babel out with an ankle injury and Yossi Benayoun on the bench, suggesting that his hamstring injury is still not completely healed. Debrecen made eight changes from the side that beat Honved in the Hungarian league at the weekend.
Barely did the match start when Liverpool went one up thanks some sloppy work at the back by Debrecen. Aurelio's cross from the right curled to the far post for Jamie Carragher to head back across goal, where Ngog guided the ball with the outside of his right foot in off the keeper and the far post.
Debrecen also gave away a lot of early free-kicks as they struggled to contain Liverpool, and Dutch referee Bjorn Kuipers lost patience and booked Zoltan Szelesi for a foul on Gerrard.
But news of a Fiorentina goal against Lyon was enough to silence the travelling support and change the mood. Debrecen's first opportunity soon followed with Gergely Rudolf heading wide when unmarked in the area. Liverpool needed, at least, to settle the issue with a second goal in this match as Debrecen continued to grow in confidence.
Debrecen then sent on striker Adamo Coulibaly in place of Peter Szakaly. The big Frenchman had caused Liverpool plenty of problems earlier in the season. Now nerves were getting to the Liverpool men as they toiled to clinch the match. Emiliano Insua lost possession to Rudolf on the edge of the box, regaining the ball as the forward threw himself down in the box. Agger's run set up a chance for Gerrard but he drove high over from the edge of the box.
Liverpool sent on Andrea Dossena for Aurelio with a couple of minutes left, Alberto Aquilani replacing Gerrard in injury time. There was still time for Coulibaly to have a shot kicked clear by Reina as Liverpool clung onto their lead.