Performance pleases Rafa

Last updated : 04 August 2007 By Al Campbell
Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard scored the goals as Liverpool comfortably beat Shanghai yesterday. Rafa Benitez gave a few of the fringe players a run out and was impressed by what he saw.

"Both goals were really good and I was very pleased with the performance of my players today. I thought Emiliano Insua and Sebastian Leto did very well down the left. They had a very good understanding and gave us great balance," said the Spaniard.

"It is good for us to give all of the squad a game. Javier Mascherano played his first game back, which was important. We have got great competition in all places - that's very good for me as a manager."