London - After their second defeat of the season to Tottenham this week dumped Liverpool out of the Carling Cup, manager Rafa Benitez is looking for a reaction away to Bolton on Saturday.

Liverpool have struggled at the Reebok Stadium in recent years - their win their last year was their first for five seasons - but Benitez is well aware how important it is to win after Wednesday's setback, and restore the momentum to the season.

If the team goes to Bolton and wins, we'll still be top of the table and everyone will be talking about our priorities," he said.

"We're disappointed because I want to win every game. We had a lot of quality in that team and wanted to win. But you have to think about priorities.

"The Champions League and the Premier League are the priorities. After that, the FA Cup."

Chelsea, who share the top of the Premier League with Liverpool, also have some bouncing back to do, having gone out of the Carling Cup on penalties to Championship side Burnley.

They travel to bottom-of-the table West Brom for the Saturday tea-time clash.

Scolari left out six regular first-teamers for the game, and was left bemoaning the quality of those who remained.

"The players are disappointed because they lost a competition," he said Scolari. "They wanted to win this game but now it is time to work for Saturday's game.

"If we had had more quality in front of goal we would have won this game.

"I kept some players out because they have played a lot of games but it was still a side that could have won this match.

"We have lost one competition. This is not normal for us. We want to win all the competitions but we have lost one and we need to understand this."

Arsenal, having seemingly got their season back on track with victory over Manchester United last week, can help cement their position in the top four at home to Aston Villa, one of the sides supposedly challenging for Champions League qualification.

Martin O'Neill's side have looked fatigued in recent games, though, and lost to Middlesbrough last weekend.

Manchester United are at home to another of the promoted sides, Stoke, while Tottenham, with five wins and a draw since Harry Redknapp replaced Juande Ramos as manager, travel to Fulham. (dpa)