With some quick to point fingers at Benitez, Mascherano admits that the only people Liverpool fans should be blaming are those on the pitch.
“The players play on the pitch, the manager can’t talk to us, can’t say how to play.
“We take the responsibility and we have to work on the pitch.
“I think it [the tactics] is working. That is not the problem, the problem is we are not playing as best we can.
Liverpool face Manchester United on Sunday, not the ideal opponents in a slump of form.
“We have to try to win on Sunday and try to continue winning.
“We believe in all the squad and all the staff.
“Last season we were doing a very good season so we have to maybe remember that and try to win on Sunday.”
We’ve not been the biggest fans of Mascherano after his rumoured off field disquiet but he has done the right thing by telling it exactly how it is.