The big challenge of Rafa Benítez in the Liverpool
There is hard and complicated the task that Rafa Benítez has ahead until it finishes the period. After Cup fell down eliminated of the FA before the Reading, the party in the Bristol Stadium was one of the first acid tests for the technician of Madrid of a new cycle inside the same campaign, and the fact is that the Liverpool will have to try to fight on the Premier without Fernando Torres (fall for six weeks), Steven Gerrard (two weeks) and Yossi Benayoun (four weeks). A mishap that does not come in the best moment of the team of the city of the Beatles.
I have already mentioned in some occasion that the sale of Xabi Alonso has affected Madrid very much to the game of the team. The donostiarra was a vital man for the reds and his stand-in, Aquilani, has not done any more that to recover of the injury with which it came already to the Liverpool and is now when it must begin starting. Strangely, Benítez has left him in the stool before Stoke City, putting like midfielders’ couple Lucas Leiva and Mascherano. It is in a moment like that when more one has to do the hand of Benítez, the same one that there managed to do of Xabi Alonso a magnificent player, the same one who has made grow Fernando Torres and the same one that has trained men as Benayoun and Kuyt.
The objective maximum of the Liverpool for these dates is to finish the competition between the first four positions of the Premier, with the obligation to the next period not remain out of the Champions League. The UEFA Europe League can turn into a too demanding task for the situation of this Liverpool, to which for staff and for history it must be enough the delivery and the continuity to him in the game to expire with his target. Nevertheless, this Premier is more competitive than never, being the first six of the classified eight (removing of the sack Chelsea and United) in a handle.
It will be interesting to continue the trajectory of the Liverpool during this month and a half, in which the team of Benítez is going to stake the period in several parties with which there will coincide the absences of Towers, Benayoun, Gerrard and Johnson. Before the arrival of Maxi Rodríguez and the recovery of Aquilani, Benítez has an authentic challenge, of the most difficult since it occupies the stool of the reds. His management can engrandecerle even more or him give motives to his detractors so that he is finished taking responsibility.
