Benitez happy with slow start to pre-season

Last updated : 24 July 2009 By Adam Bryant
The result leaves Liverpool without a win in their first three pre-season games, but manager Rafael Benitez is unconcerned.

"I think our pre-season is going well," he said. "It is very difficult when you have a lot of players away who come back much later.

"For example Fernando Torres and the rest of the Spanish players have trained for only three days.

"On Wednesday he played 10 minutes and was very good, but after three days training I wasn't expecting a performance like that.

"It's impossible to make any judgements when players have only trained for a few days.

"We have to analyse the team after maybe two more weeks."

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