Sunday 26th February 2006
ANFIELD ONLINE LFC NEWS

RAFA FURY AT STRIKE RATE

A sign of how far the reds have come under Rafa Benitez was shown today when Rafa expressed his dismay that although the reds got the win, the scoreline did not express the reds domination.

"I am not happy with the final scoreline, it was another 1-0 win and another very important three points but I would like to see us score more goals," said Benitez.

"We certainly need to be able to finish games off when we do go ahead. At the moment when it is only one goal you put yourselves under too much pressure.

"And when teams go down to 10 men against us it is always difficult, because they defend in a different way.

"We became nervous and they had chances, we were controlling the game better with 11 men than with 10.

"We just couldn't score a second. (Peter) Crouch, (Fernando) Morientes, (Steven) Gerrard, (John Arne) Riise, (Jan) Kromkamp all should have taken chances to finish the game.

"We reduced City to a few chances only, but we must start making life easier for ourselves in such situations."

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