Rafa releases statement

Last updated : 05 February 2007 By Al Campbell
Benitez has been prompted to release a further statement following a day of non stop whinging by Evertonians after the Liverpool boss correctly pointed out that Everton are a small team.

"I'm not talking about them. You can only see the things that you see out on the pitch, and they were playing deep, compact, narrow, playing counter attack and trying to score from set-pieces," said Benitez.

"You can understand it because we are a top side. We were expecting them to play like that – that was the reason we played with three strikers, and also with Pennant wide.

"We tried to change things because we knew they would be playing narrow, compact and deep."

Evertonians have spent the past day and a half complaining about Benitez's remarks on phone ins and on message forums. Ironically, the only song Everton fans have is 'we don't care what the redshite say.'