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Rafa Benitez deserves more respect

By Jen Chang

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Has any team in recent times, one coming off incredible back-to-back victories, received less credit for those wins than Liverpool did for last week's remarkable four-goal dismantlings of Real Madrid and Manchester United? The conventional wisdom seems to be that both teams somehow had a rare off day, with all of their key players coincidentally underperforming when facing the Reds. Furthermore, in the case of Real Madrid, most pundits seem to think that the current edition seems to be the wors ...

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