<span class="titolo">Benitez: No Pressure On Me</span></p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> With progress into the last 16 of the Champions League a daunting task, coupled with a significant dip in league form, many feel Rafael Benitez is facing his first serious crisis. </p> But Benitez remains unflustered, instead the Spaniard claims Liverpool’s owners, Americans Tom Hicks and George Gillet, are “very, very positive”.</p> "I felt they are really focused and supporting so I think the future is great," he told BBC Radio 5 Live. </p> If the Reds lose at home to Besiktas on Tuesday, the 2005 European champions will almost certainly be out of the competition.</p> Defeat would also leave them in danger of missing out on the Uefa Cup spot available to sides who finish third in their Champions League groups.</p> Despite the cloud hanging over Liverpool's current form, Benitez pointed to the club's European exploits in recent years.</p> "Tell me how teams can be in two finals in the Champions League in three years?" he said, insisting co-owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks share his vision for the club's future.</p> "They must be pleased with the way the team and the club is going because we are changing a lot of things and I think we are progressing."</p> Vice-captain and Liverpool stalwart, Jamie Carragher, endorsed his manager’s beliefs on the Reds record under the Spaniard.</p> "We can't win all the time," he said.</p> "We have a good record in the Champions League and will look to keep that going.</p> "We do still want to be in the Champions League. But if it doesn't happen we just have to get on with it."</p> Benitez also dismissed suggestions that an early exit from the Champions League this year would cost the club between £17m and £20m.</p> "That is the money only the finalists get and only two clubs can do that," he said.</p> "The financial implications in losing are not as big as people suggest.</p> "But we must think about football first and not to be bothered by other things - that will be taken care of later.</p> "I have talked to the owners, but not about money, just our ideas for the future."</div></p> </p>
And yet, we still have Liverpool fans on here saying Arsenal won't win anything. Did you guys tie to Blackburn over the weekend?</p>
