Rafa Benitez is confident Liverpool can still progress to the knockout stages after they got their Champions League campaign back on track with a record-breaking victory against Besiktas.
The 8-0 triumph is the biggest margin of victory in the competition in its current format and the Reds boss believes the success will now give his side the confidence to go on and win their next two Group A matches.
"In the last few matches we have been creating chances and not scoring goals but today once we got the first it was easier for us to go on and score the second and then the other goals," said Benitez.
"We had the belief and know that we now need to win our next two matches.
"Our supporters will believe we can qualify and we now need to think about beating Porto when they come here."
Peter Crouch hit a double on his return to the starting line-up while Yossi Benayoun fired his first hat-trick for the Reds, but while Benitez was happy to see his forward players on the scoresheet, he feels it is the team that deserves the plaudits.
"Crouch was very good," said Benitez.
"But I prefer to think about the whole team. The strikers were very good and Voronin was fantastic but the midfielders and defenders were also good and we managed to keep a clean sheet which was important too."
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The 8-0 triumph is the biggest margin of victory in the competition in its current format and the Reds boss believes the success will now give his side the confidence to go on and win their next two Group A matches.
"In the last few matches we have been creating chances and not scoring goals but today once we got the first it was easier for us to go on and score the second and then the other goals," said Benitez.
"We had the belief and know that we now need to win our next two matches.
"Our supporters will believe we can qualify and we now need to think about beating Porto when they come here."
Peter Crouch hit a double on his return to the starting line-up while Yossi Benayoun fired his first hat-trick for the Reds, but while Benitez was happy to see his forward players on the scoresheet, he feels it is the team that deserves the plaudits.
"Crouch was very good," said Benitez.
"But I prefer to think about the whole team. The strikers were very good and Voronin was fantastic but the midfielders and defenders were also good and we managed to keep a clean sheet which was important too."
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