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by **Owzat** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:40 pm

The 2-0 win over Fulham was Rafa's 200th game in charge.

Premiership

Played : 126
Won : 68 (54.0%)
Drawn : 28 (22.2%)
Lost : 30 (23.8%)
Goals For : 185
Goals Against : 99
Clean Sheets : 56 (44.44%)

League Positions

3rd : 05/06 & 06/07
5th : 04/05

Record Points : 82 (2005/6)
Most Wins : 25 (2005/6)
Most Home Wins : 15 (2005/6)
Most Away Wins : 10 (2005/6)
Most Goals Scored : 57 (2005/6 & 2006/7)
Least Goals Conceded : 25 (2005/6)

Champions League

Played : 50
Won : 29 (58.0%)
Drawn : 9 (18.0%)
Lost : 12 (24.0%)
Goals For : 77
Goals Against : 33
Clean Sheets : 25 (50.0%)

Champions League Record

Winners : 2004/5
Runners-up : 2006/7
Last 16 : 2005/6

Domestic Cups/Other

Played : 24
Won : 18 (75.0%)
Drawn : 0 (0.0%)
Lost : 6 (25.0%)
Goals For : 54
Goals Against : 33
Clean Sheets : 8 (33.3%)

Honours

UEFA Super Cup : Winners 2005/6
FA Cup : Winners 2005/6
Community Shield : Winners 2006/7

Club World Championship : Runners-Up 2005/6
League Cup : Runners-Up 2004/5

Overall

Played : 200
Won : 115 (57.5%)
Drawn : 37 (18.5%)
Lost : 48 (24.0%)
Goals For : 316
Goals Against : 165
Clean Sheets : 89 (50.0%)

Summary By Season

2004/5

Premiership : 5th
Champions League : Winners
League Cup : Runners-Up
FA Cup : R3

2005/6

Premiership : 3rd
Champions League : Last 16
League Cup : R3
FA Cup : Winners
UEFA Super Cup : Winners
Club World Championship : Runners-Up

2006/7

Premiership : 3rd
Champions League : Runners-Up
League Cup : QF
FA Cup : R3
Community Shield : Winners

by **Reg** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 5:37 pm

Many thanks for that, pretty impressive. Be nice to see Shanks, Bob´s, Fagan´s first 200 game stats along side. (:laugh:)

by **skatesy** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:13 pm

Almost 58% wins in all games is pretty impressive.

by **mungi** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:01 am

pretty impressive. rafa will be considered a successful coach at Liverpool. however he wouldn't however be considered a great coach in my eyes as he has not played the style of football that shanks and others have played during their times with liverpool. thats my opinion anyway:P

by **yckatbjywtbiastkamb** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:09 pm

mungi wrote:pretty impressive. rafa will be considered a successful coach at Liverpool. however he wouldn't however be considered a great coach in my eyes as he has not played the style of football that shanks and others have played during their times with liverpool. thats my opinion anyway:P

the team benitez took over could hardly string 3 passes together.
maybe we arent as free flowing as arsenal but i remember under roy evans the team was accused of passing the ball to death with no end product.
benitez, considering the situation when he took over has done an incredible job (owen wanting out, gerrard considering going, team devoid of confidence and full of overpriced flops (diouf, diao, cheyrou, biscan, traore etc), style of play ridiculed by opposing fans, chairman with no cash, etc).
make no mistake, we were a club in crisis when benitez came.

by **hello_red** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 4:02 am

Make no mistake Rafa has had a tough time rebulding a team that was a piece of :censored:

when he came. As above we had no money when Rafa came and stil;l struggled for cash for a couple of seaons after. Cisse apart. We bought Alonso and Luis by selling players on which ended up being superb signings for us.

Rafa has done excellently in the space of time he has been here, and we have improved in the league.

2004-05 5th place - Champs legaue winners
2005-06 3rd place - FA cup winners

Now here it comes, with a squad still nowhere near setting England alight we get to the champs league final and still finish 3rd! Thats an improvement.

Thank you and good night...

by **lio** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:23 am

No smoke No fire ...
And it's all over the media today that German giants Bayern Munich are ready to make an audacious raid for our Rafa Benitez with a package that seems like he can't avoid a second looking. Much as I hated rotation, but I suddenly now feeling worried.

:sniffle

'see timesonline'
'see mirror'

by **babu** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:25 am

Haha Rafa would never go to Bayern Munich, IMHO

by **mungi** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:44 am

y go to bayern munich, to me there is no challenge for rafa as bayern munich dominates the German league year after year (apart from last year) and the only challenge is the champs league. a comp rafa has already won. rafa will stay in the prem and continue to try and win the epl.

by **Owzat** » Sat Nov 17, 2007 11:10 am

I would doubt Rafa will go to Bayern, big club that they are the Premiership is a bigger league and Liverpool a bigger club. Even if some of us have our doubts, I'm not doubting RAFA thinks he is doing a great job so why would he leave now?

Bayern Honours

European Cup Winners : 4
German League Champions : 20

UEFA Cup Winners Cup : 1
UEFA Cup : 1
Intercontinental Cup : 2
German Super Cup : 3
German Cup : 13
German League Cup : 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayern_Munich

Ok Germany may not be as uncompetitive as SPL say, but that's less impressive than Liverpool's record. Next biggest winner is only on 10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_football_champions

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