Benitez v Ferguson round 3

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Rafa Benitez believes Sir Alex Ferguson will want Liverpool to beat Chelsea in their UEFA Champions League quarter-final.

Ferguson stated on Monday that he believes the winner of the all-English tie will provide the main challenge to Manchester United in the title race.

However, Benitez is not convinced by Ferguson's theory and has put forward his own ideas about what the United boss may want to happen.

Benitez feels the side that does not go through to the semi-finals will be able to concentrate completely on the Premier League and could topple United.

Liverpool are currently United's nearest rivals so Benitez thinks Ferguson would like the Reds to have the distraction of European football.

"I think they will have a problem, United, because clearly one of us, Chelsea or Liverpool, will be focused on the league so I think it is worse for them," Benitez said on Sky Sports News.

"I think he will be supporting Liverpool because he knows that we are the big threat, so if we continue in the competition (he will think) 'it will be okay, they will be tired'.

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"If we are not in the competition he knows we will be a threat, if Chelsea are not in the competition he knows they will be a threat.

"One thing is the momentum but another thing is the time you have to prepare for every single Premier League game, so clearly I think he will be supporting us."

Benitez, who is confident Liverpool can challenge for glory on two fronts, does not believe Ferguson should dwell on such matters.

He explained: "I would like to be worrying about both (Premier League and Champions League) but he likes to think too much about other teams."

Benitez insists he did not mind being drawn to face Chelsea in the Champions League for a fifth successive year.

The Liverpool boss believes such a rivalry shows the strength of both sides and he is looking forward to many more clashes with the Blues.

"I am really pleased to be here playing Chelsea again because we are at this stage of the competition again, and hopefully it will be the same for the next five years," he said.

"And that means we will be there and they will be there too."
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Classic comeback Rafa put old Rudolf in his place :D
 
but he likes to think too much about other teams
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Says the idiot who cant go a week without talking about Manchester United.
 
HE really likes playing us? Come on! Everyone is bored of it already. Last seasons game killed it for me :(
 
Ahhhh! the Fat Spanish clown at it again... (Maybe he is a closet United/Fergie fan-he sure can't stop talking about them)....lol;)
 
"We have to concentrate on our team but he likes to talk too much about other teams. It is not mind games. He is a little bit scared.''

Benitez nodded at the suggestion that Ferguson's new-found admiration for Arsene Wenger could be rooted in Arsenal not troubling United domestically. "I understand and agree,'' Benitez said. On it went. The organisers of the League Managers' Association end-of-season party would be ill-advised to sit the pair together.

"I had a very good relationship with him [Ferguson]. I was with him in Switzerland for a coaches' meeting and we travelled on the same plane and spoke on the way. Everything was OK but something changed. Maybe it was because we started winning.

"He wrote to me after Istanbul [the 2005 Champions League final victory] and was very polite, saying well done and talking about the tactics. He was very good. I think I wrote to him after Moscow [last season's final]. Normally we write to say congratulations and I think I did.

"My behaviour normally is to try and respect the other teams and the other managers. But if I have to defend my club I will do it.''
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Rafa is becoming awesome at ratling Fergie :D
 
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