Unirea Urziceni v Liverpool: Rafael Benitez confident side have firepower to succeed

By Rory Smith in Bucharest Published: 12:52PM GMT twenty-five February 2010

On the attack: Rafael Benitez believes Liverpool have sufficient firepower in their ranks to swell in Europa League Photo: REUTERS

Sundays 0-0 pull at Manchester City meant the Spaniard has presided over only one defeat, a slight loss at Arsenal, given the degrading FA Cup improved at home to Reading, a spell of eight games in that Liverpool have conceded only dual goals.

As highlighted by the initial leg of their Europa League last 32 tie with Unirea Urziceni, their opponents again in Bucharest tonight, though, where Liverpool have grown increasingly inviolable at one end, they have turn worrying avaricious at the other.

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In those eight games, Liverpool have scored only 7 times, whilst Benitezs side have not scored 3 goals or some-more in one compare given the 6-1 dispersion of Hull in September. Despite those ban statistics, though, Benitez stays assured that his side retain the firepower to safeguard an differently joyless debate ends on a high.

"You regularly wish to measure some-more but if you wish to urge when you are surrender as well most goals, the initial thing is to be stronger in defence," pronounced the Liverpool manager. "Now the group has some-more certainty in counterclaim and afterwards we have to go one step forward, to make use of people with a some-more descent mentality, and all will change.

"It was opposite Stoke that we had Daniel Agger, Yossi Benayoun, Fabio Aurelio, Glen Johnson and Fernando Torres all missing, all of them descent players with quality, but right away they are entrance back, with Glen behind in precision this week, so we will urge in conflict only since of the players [available].

"At City, we were perplexing to emanate chances, even if people pronounced we did not emanate as well much. We had Ryan Babel, a striker, Dirk Kuyt, a striker, Maxi Rodriguez can measure goals and Steven Gerrard. We had 4 players going brazen to emanate and when we put Yossi Benayoun on he was a threat, but we did not pass the round as well well and we were not accurate enough.

"But again, we know that since we have Kuyt, Babel, Gerrard and Torres all accessible we right away have some-more descent players, so it can be better."