“Then obviously this week, we get an opportunity to learn more about ourselves which is a gift really, just to focus on the summer.”
That is the basis of the Benitez approach, which worked during the attritional warfare of the 2000s – when Benitez and Jose Mourinho set the standard – but is no longer relevant in an age of hard pressing and build-up play coached in immaculate detail on the training pitch.
What do all these stories suggest about the state of the nation's game? There is, fortunately, another narrative.
Most of the teams down the bottom have problems keeping goals out, but Norwich can't score them either - they have failed to find the net in each of their past six league games.
They have to win every single game now, and that has been the same since January when they were 14 points behind.
I did a poll the other week and I was absolutely stunned - 240,000 people voted and 82 per cent were in favour of bringing him in over (Mauricio) Pochettino.
They are in the bottom half of Ligue 1 and have lost two and drawn one of their past four top-flight matches.
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It’s not only in the interest for us as a club but it’s in his personal interest that he plays and performs at the highest possible level in the next couple of weeks.
For 20 minutes we were OK, but it deteriorated in to a poor performance individually. We gave the ball away too cheaply.
France forward Kylian Mbappe and Poland striker Robert Lewandowski have spoken out against FIFA plans to hold the World Cup every two years, calling it ‘impossible’ to do so.
Jacob Brown looked to capitalise on their dominance when he rose highest to meet a pinpoint Joe Allen delivery, but Daniel Bentley did well at full-stretch to thwart the Potters' talisman.
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Atkinson awards free-kick to Man Utd for a foul by Soucek. He doesn't realise he's there, but he's caught him.
Speaking after the club's AGM, Cormack said: We can only deal with decisions that are made that we can't control when we're told about them.
Then everything went weird. Steven Bergwijn scored a goal. Steven Bergwijn scored another goal. We Can See You Clocking Off
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Thomas Tuchel's side started poorly and lacked authority throughout, opening the scoring against the run of play through Hakim Ziyech's well-struck low drive from outside the box.
The lads were in good form in recovery. Obviously the boys that performed on Friday were outstanding but everybody has got to be ready.
A man found guilty of making monkey chants at a Mansfield Town match on Tuesday has been jailed for six months and two weeks.
United have struggled without the France international defender this season, and Solskjaer says the early signs aren't good.
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I thought they'd make it much harder for the opposition when they have the ball. It boils down to the fact they just concede far too many chances to the opposition.
Team news, stats and prediction ahead of Norwich vs Manchester United in the Premier League on Saturday Night Football; kick-off 5.30pm.
Writing in his weekly column, Cech suggested the 29-year-old custodian, who recently won the Fifa Best goalkeeper award, will win more trophies this year among them the Afcon title as Senegal are among the favourites.
Gunners substitute Rob Holding approached the fourth official in the 33rd minute, saying he had heard racial abuse from a Leeds supporter.
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Jamie Carragher says he would still favour Manchester City to defend their Premier League crown, but believes Tottenham's 3-2 win at the Etihad Stadium has sparked life into the title race.
James faced plenty of tricky left-sided players in the Championship, including Ollie Watkins, Yannick Bolasie and Todd Cantwell, but Jacobs remembers barely any of them getting the better of him. When he did struggle, he made sure to come back stronger.
Pep Guardiola's men have won the competition for the last four seasons with John Stones, Nathan Ake, Oleksandr Zinchenko and Riyad Mahrez among those pushing to come in.
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Apart from the four foreigners in the Dynamo squad who found short-term deals elsewhere after the start of the war, Lucescu has all his players with him. Over the past 50 days, the coach and his assistants have gone from arranging buses for people fleeing war to relocating countless families and helping players' pregnant wives find doctors to take care of them.
To get you in the mood, we've put together this list of players who have featured for both sides. You've got six minutes to name all 12.
England is now probably one of the top countries in the world for women's football. Chandarana had a spell with third-tier Loughborough after completing a sports science degree at the town's famed university, before heading off to Italy.
Football is like that. In big teams, there is competition everywhere. If you're afraid of the competition, don't play football.
I don't think it gives us an edge, it just gave us another trophy! Arsenal themselves felt the sheer force of Barcelona on Thursday night, beaten 4-0 in the Champions League having lost 4-1 in the first fixture in October.
