Liverpool defender Martin Kelly says they deserved victory over Everton.

And he's hopeful they'll be able to pick up where they left off when Manchester United come to Anfield following the international break.

"It's two massive fixtures for us with the derby and then the Man United game," the defender told liverpoolfc.tv.

"As a team we were all made up with the win and now after the internationals we'll get back together next week and prepare to face United.

"It was brilliant to play in my first derby at their place. It was intimidating at the start with the crowd against us but we stuck together. We kept to our game plan which was to get the ball down and play.

"At half-time Kenny told us not to rush and that if we were patient the chances would come.

"The last thing we wanted to do was lose because we were all up attacking and leave ourselves open to being caught on the counter attack.

"We were patient and in the end the goals came. We deserved the points."