The former Liverpool and Real Madrid manager oversaw his first win last week and managed a 1-1 draw against Manchester City on Tuesday night.
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People like Cheick Tiote and Moussa Sissoko have shown the form they are capable of, rather than the form they have been delivering, and that seems down to the manager’s influence.
“We are closer. We know that we have to win this game”.
A win would lift Newcastle out of the Premier League’s relegation zone ahead of Sunderland’s home game against Arsenal on Sunday.
Newcastle United midfielder Vurnon Anita has welcomed the positive effect Rafa Benitez has had on the team. We have belief that we can fight and beat anyone.
For Newcastle, Karl Darlow should play in goal, and there are other defensive problems as Fabricio Coloccini, Chancel Mbemba, Steven Taylor and Daryl Janmaat are all injured.
Newcastle have scored just 11 goals in their last 23 Premier League games away from home.
Liverpool is at the seventh spot of the current league table, only two points behind sixth-running team West Ham United who presently holds the second and last qualifying berth for the Europa League tournament next season.
“Everybody knows he has been at big clubs, so he knows what he is talking about”.
“But it is up to the players to show it on the pitch of course, and we did”.
The team is scheduled to host bottom three team Newcastle United FC (7-19-8, 29 points) at the Anfield on Saturday, April 23rd.
“He’s quite similar, he’s very positive”, said Anita.
Liverpool fans around the world are understandably furious about the club’s decision to make Michael Owen an “international ambassador”.
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When asked if Benitez had perhaps underestimated the size of the job facing him at St. James’ Park Balague replied: “It seems to me that when you enter that kind of job, obviously you will ask around and find things out. So I will always be grateful”.
