327 Quotes by Rafael Benitez

He's a clever player, he plays well between the lines he can play on the right or the left side. He gives us more chances, more opportunities, more space and more game intelligence.

It's good for me to have options now,

He's a good player and when you play deep with spaces and you have pace and ability it's normal that you can play well. But for me the key was the first 20 minutes.

It's good for English football to have a team in the final.

He's been a good servant, a good player to have around and a good teammate. He can play in several positions for us and has been outstanding in the near two seasons I have been here.

It's his birthday and scoring goals is the best way to celebrate for a striker but we are not talking about his new contract. That'll be the next question. I like to see him scoring goals, for sure, and also playing well. The most important thing for us is to see him working hard until the end. He did that.

We must enjoy this trophy and we have five more days for talking about these other things.

It is a blow to us because of the big games in Europe that we have coming up, but we have a good squad and we will have to cope without him.

It's important for me to have Harry back. It presents me with a problem when it comes to selecting the team but it's a good problem.