"Every win is important but especially now with it being so close in the fight for fourth position," said Benitez.
"So to put other teams under pressure is important. If we can win our game in hand it will then depend on us.
"We can then go into the Newcastle game and the Champions League match with Inter with more confidence. It is really important that we keep winning.
"I said before the match that the team was really concentrated and was training well. In the first five minutes when we had problems with their free-kicks but after that I think the team played well. We were trying to keep the ball because we knew it would be more physical if we didn't keep possession, so the idea was to play with a high tempo."
