Benitez plots recovery after Chelsea mauling

RAFAEL BENITEZ will spend the next fortnight analysing every second of his worst defeat as Liverpool’s manager.

The Spaniard, very much one of the new breed of lap-top managers, has found his side's 4-1 mauling by Chelsea very hard to take because it was brought about by the very things his meticulous planning cannot control individual mistakes.

But before Liverpool face Blackburn at Anfield on October 15, Benitez will have carefully studied the Chelsea defeat and isolated it for what it was a loss against an outstanding team.