It was not so much the result that was surprising — Bordeaux always looked likely victims — but the teamsheet. If it was signed by the Liverpool manager it will fetch plenty on eBay.
Daily Telegraph
Liverpool reach last 16 as Benítez sticks to his guns
As the manager of Liverpool, there is always someone trying to challenge your authority, but having seen off one threat from the boardroom earlier in the day, Rafael Benítez saw off another on the field last night, albeit in the significantly tamer form of Bordeaux.
The Times
Liverpool through as Benítez stops the merry-go-round
Rafael Benítez choked last night like a batsman stumbling in the nervous nineties and, not for the first time, he was proved right to do so. After 99 matches, the Spaniard passed up on a century and named an unchanged side here but, for the instinctive tinkerer, there will be consolation ahead.
The Guardian
Garcia's double gives Liverpool vintage victory
Liverpool, starting with an unchanged XI for the first time in 100 games, eased into the knock-out phase of the Champions' League last night by virtue of a comfortable, if blood-spattered victory - started and finished by Luis Garcia - and PSV Eindhoven's defeat of Galatasaray.
The Independent
