Young guns against Burnley

2005
Rafael Benitez will again turn to his young players and give them a chance in Tuesday's rescheduled FA Cup 3rd round tie at Burnley and says he has a lot of faith in them.
The likes of Stephen Warnock, Neil Mellor, Darren Potter, David Raven, John Welsh and Zak Whitbread are all expected to figure in the match, while Mark Smyth could be on the bench. While the Liverpool manager admits the FA Cup is not the highest on Liverpool's priorities this season he did say he wants to win the match and take the team as far as they can in the competition.

Captain Steven Gerrard will be rested and miss the match but Benitez revealed that the much maligned Jerzy Dudek will start in goal with 20-year-old Scouser Paul Harrison again on the bench.

Benitez said: "The first priority for us is to finish in the top four in the Premiership and continue to do well in the Champions League. The most important for the supporters is the Premiership.

"I like to give the young players a chance because they have done very well and taken us to the semi-final of the Carling Cup this season. Against Watford I used a more senior team and they played worse than the young players had done in the competition.

"I want to win every match and am confident the young players will do well again for us."

Benitez aime bien faire tourner son effectif, il a toujours procédé comme ça.
Et puis c'est bien que les jeunes aient leur chance, d'autant plus qu'ils n'ont pas démérité en coupe de la League.

Mais même si ce n'est pas vital cette année, financièrement notamment, j'attache quand même une grande importance à la F.A. Cup. Il y a peu de compétitions dans le monde aussi prestigieuses que la Cup et c'est toujours important de ramener ce trophée.

pour l'instant c pas terrible y a personne devant ni Baros ni Mellor le terrain est quasiment injouable l'arbitrage guere glorieux again bref esperons que ca bouge mieux en seconde mi temps!!

Well we just have to pick ourselves up this morning dust ourselves down and carry on. Yes we could all criticise raffa for his team selection. I think what we need to bear in mind is that he is new to english football and doesn,t understand how important the FA Cup is to the fans. Also that you have to have a little more respect for the opposition. Having said the fact remains we are out of the FA Cup. So lets look at the positives. We have one less competion to worry about and this will give opportunities to rest players. Our priorities are surely Champions League and the Premiership.

Also I don't mind Raffa making mistakes, because it is by our mistakes that we learn. There is nothing wrong with making a mistake as long as you don't repeat it.

la fa cup aurait merite de mettre une equipe type c vraiment dommage!!

si ça avit marché tu aurais dit quoi?
on a bcq de blessés.
et puis ça avait bien marché la dernière fois,non?

en tout cas ca n'a pas marche la!!en league cup on est passe aux tirs aux buts mais on a pas ete terrible quand meme........dans le jeu je veux dire!!

la fa cup merite qu'on mette plus de joeurs confirmes genre il aurait du mettre baros ou mellor dessuite on a bien vu a la fin que baros apportait un plus!!

non,je critique mais je n'ai pas vu le match....
seulement je suis un inconditionnel de rafa,mais là,ya une cou*lle dans le pâté!!!
nos joueurs ont bcq donné depuis debut decembre.

Autumn tu as pas rater beaucoup.

Difficile de critiquer Raffa il gardes ses jouers pour le prem et CL a mon avis ce le decision correct.

ben je pense qu'il a raison mais je preferais qu'on gagne la facup que la oupe de la league.

Raffa a dit
Benitez said: "The first priority for us is to finish in the top four in the Premiership and continue to do well in the Champions League. The most important for the supporters is the Premiership.

Moi aussi Autumn, mais on a deux match a gagner dans le coupe de ligue
et beaucoup plus dans le FA et c'est toujours un place dans L'Uefa en les deux competitions.