Pool hero urges Benitez to stick with young guns

LIVERPOOL'S Carling Cup hero Florent Sinama-Pongolle has urged manager Rafael Benitez to stick with the youngsters for next month's semi-final against Watford after the Reds' rookies sent Tottenham crashing.

Sinama-Pongolle kept his nerve to score a penalty four minutes from the end of extra-time to level Jermain Defoe's 108th-minute opener and then converted the decisive spot-kick in the shoot-out.

Benitez had made nine changes for the game but hinted he might bring back the big guns for the two-legged clash with Watford, who dumped Southampton and Portsmouth out en route to the last four.