Rafa delighted by lack of Euro hangover

Rafa was very pleased that we have managed to buck the recent trend of poor results after European games:

"As for winning away from home, we wanted to change the statistics.
"We have won away after a Champions League game, kept a clean sheet, scored two goals, played well, controlled the game and created opportunities. As a manager, you must be delighted."

Again Rafa has backed Peter Crouch emphasising the amount of problems he caused the Villa defence:

Benitez said: "People keep asking me about Peter's failure to score but I say many times that if he plays well and we win, it is enough.
"He has done a very good job for us and definitely gives us more options and alternatives in attack.
"Of course, he will be more confident if he scores but if he plays as well as he did against Villa then I will be happy.
"When he came on he created problems for the Villa centre-backs and, along with the other substitutes Bolo Zenden and Harry Kewell, gave us the energy that we needed."

Rafa was in no doubt that the ref made the right decision by awarding us a penalty:

"As manager of Liverpool you have to say it is a penalty but I have seen it on television again and I think it was penalty.

Overall it was a solid but unspectacular performance, however the main thing is the three points and we have now won our last three games. Let's hope the run continues.

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