Kuyt flying high as rampant Reds ease pressure on Benitez

THROUGHOUT Liverpool’s season-long ‘blip’, one of Rafael Benitez’s buzzwords has been ‘character’ and for those that doubted whether his players were with him as insipid display followed poor performance, last night provided the response.

Once again Benitez could only call on a desperately mediocre team but they blew away a Tottenham side that had everything to prove and Dirk Kuyt’s early goal and late penalty made it 66 away games at ‘Big Four’ teams without a win for Spurs.

Spurs could not live with the pace in the first half and when they finally came to their senses, they could not break through a Liverpool team, with the likes of Sotirios Kyrgiakos and Philipp Degen playing like heroes.