Rafa Benitez Game Quotations

I can't explain how you can control a game for 40 minutes, it was one-way (traffic), and still lose.

We started off by controlling the game and were well organised and in the second half they did put some pressure on us but then we controlled the game at the end of the game,

I spoke to some players after the game and pointed out a few mistakes we made.

I need to know why after all the problems in the game there was only three minutes.

It's incredible that we lost that game 4-1,

We lost a game we were controlling, we have to think about that. It was the last minute, so it was a disappointing day. It's always difficult to lose in the last minute. We know we have two games in hand, we know it's a long way and we have to keep going.

It will be a difficult game for both teams.

It was a tough game between two good teams. We didn't create a lot of opportunities, they didn't also. They are strong, good in defense, they pressed. We tried to do the same and it was difficult.