BenÃtez: Five Tough Games Ahead
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Rafa Benítez believes that Liverpool's hat-trick of home wins has set them up for their next five matches which will make or break the club's season.
The Spanish coach believes that his side are hitting top form as they prepare to face Everton, Manchester United and then Arsenal on three consecutive occasions.
Victory over Reading at the weekend ensured that the Reds are still in fourth place and Benítez is hoping that the run can continue in their next outing.
"We now have a very tough spell. Everyone kept saying that because of that we had to win our three home league games with West Ham, Newcastle and now Reading. We have now done that," he explained,
"Now we have really difficult games and we needed these seven wins beforehand.
"Now we have five very hard games, three with Arsenal plus Everton and Manchester United away next week. We will only think of each one as it arrives, you cannot start to worry about what is ahead.
"The first one is the most important. If we can keep our momentum then it will be easier going into the second one. We must not waste our time thinking too far ahead.
"We started the season playing well, winning a lot of games, scoring plenty of goals and we were unbeaten in the league until December.
"Still we have only lost three league games, our problem has been drawing too many and we are aware of that.
"If we had won just three of those drawn matches things would be very different."
Benítez is still hopeful of putting pressure on the top three in the final weeks of the campaign and has asked for patience before predictions are made.
"How near we finish to the top now will be interesting. We have been criticised this season, but let us see where we are in three or four weeks," he continued.
"We have important games and if we win them we will be a lot closer. If we can beat Manchester United we will be closer to the top, and that will give us more confidence.
"If we beat Everton after that then we will be closer still. Maybe, maybe we can be closer if we do not talk too much about it.
"Do we have a point to prove? Maybe, but only if we can keep winning three points." -
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