Rafael Benitez has revealed if his Liverpool was better than Klopp's

Former Liverpool boss, Rafael Benitez has spoken out on current Liverpool team ahead of Boxing Day game as he takes his Newcastle side to Anfield. Liverpool with 4 points clear from the second placed Manchester City are leading the league. Rafael Benitez has backed the club to push reigning champions Manchester City all the way in a two-horse race for this season’s Premier League title. (via TEAMtalk) “Still it’s too soon, but I think both teams are a little bit ahead of the others. I haven’t seen the Manchester City game, but nobody was expecting that. “But as I’ve said before, Crystal Palace, the three up front, you can buy them for £50million, each one, so it sometimes can happen when teams have good players to play on the counter-attack. “But still I can see Liverpool, I can see Manchester City ahead of the others. Liverpool are in form, they are doing really well and it will be a very difficult game for us.” And to the question if the current Liverpool side is the best since his, he replied: “It’s difficult to say ‘team’ because always in my head is that when we beat Real Madrid and Barcelona, there was a great team, but what I think is they have the best squad. “When you spend money, you bring in better players – they have signed Fabinho, spent some money on (Naby) Keita, but they kept (Jordan) Henderson and they kept (Georginio) Wijnaldum, so you keep the good players and you bring in new players, so the squad is better. “What does that mean? That in different competitions, different games, still you have a strong team on the pitch.”

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