In his post match press conference Rafael Benitez was constantly asked about the future of Michael Owen but the Reds boss refused to be drawn on the matter, instead praising his forward pairing of Milan Baros and Djibril Cisse.
"When I decided the 11 who would start the game, it was because I had confidence in those players," Benitez claimed. "We have four good forwards and today we played two of them."
"The reason Michael didn't play was because Baros and Cisse did play. And they played well."
"I can't predict the future. I'm only concentrating on the present and our performance tonight, which was good. At the moment Michael is one of our four forwards. I understand why you ask the questions about him but, I'm sorry, I don't want to say anything else,"
"I am pleased with the result because we knew this was going to be a difficult game. GAK have played more matches than us and we knew they would press us in defence and midfield. Once we scored the first goal it opened the game up and then the second one finished it off."
