Pressure still on Benitez to walk on

AT THE end of the storm, the Liverpool anthem says, there is a golden sky. But just when Rafa Benitez, who took inspiration from the lyrics ahead of last night’s match, thought he could see the light it was cruelly clouded from his view in Lyon and this result has left critics asking: Will he now walk alone?

Such is the Spaniard’s support inside the club, both on the Kop and in the boardroom, that the answer is almost certainly ‘no’, especially while Liverpool’s Champions League hopes are not completely over.

But the importance of Lisandro’s 90th minute equaliser after Ryan Babel had given Liverpool real hope in France cannot be underestimated in terms of the pressure that will now build to almost unbearable levels at Anfield.