Rafael Benitez
Rafael Benitez
Rafael "Rafa" Benítez Maudesis a Spanish football coach currently managing Newcastle United. He is the only manager in history to have won the UEFA Europa League, UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Champions League and the FIFA Club World Cup...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth16 April 1960
CityMadrid, Spain
mentality premier
We need a new mentality in the Premier League, especially away from home, and when we have that, things will be much better for sure.
hope opinion positive training wait
We need to wait for another opinion but I am positive and I hope he will be in training soon.
analyze continues easy few goals hurry likely score
We need to analyze a few more things. I am not in a hurry but if he continues to score goals then it will be an easy decision. The more he scores, the more he's likely to stay.
lose win
We have nothing to lose and everything to win and will try and do our best.
game good
We could have scored a lot more goals, it was a good game for us,
shot time
Today, every time we shot it was a goal.
clever game gives left lines plays space
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.
ability deep good key normal player spaces
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.
centre four january knows last left months people reinforce thinking three until
We have three or four months to get through. In January we need to reinforce the squad. We were thinking about a right-winger and centre half, everyone knows that, but when people say we left it until the last minute, that's not true,
announce expect hopefully season signing
I expect we will be able to announce his signing very soon, hopefully before the season starts. But I see no problem.
list
I could show you a list of controversial incidents.
finish game goalkeeper goals halftime happy performance played players team third
I am happy with the performance of the team but we should have scored more goals and their goalkeeper played very well. I told the players at halftime to finish the game off but we couldn't get the third goal.
hurry sell
I am in no hurry to sell the player,
goals happy played won
I am really happy because we played well, scored goals and could have won by a lot more than 3-1 in the end.