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Fri 11 Nov 2009Reina insists Benitez has players' full support
JOSE REINA has dismissed suggestions that Rafael Benitez has lost his players’ support as Liverpool prepare for Sunday’s Merseyside derby at Goodison Park in the wake of their Champions League exit and a disastrous run of form.
Liverpool have won just two of their past 11 competitive matches and are 13 points adrift of the Premier League leaders, Chelsea, but Reina has backed the manager to turn things around. The Spanish goalkeeper did, though, accept that Liverpool need players to return from injury, saying they are a different side without Fernando Torres, who he says is better than most players in the world – even when not fully fit.
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