Benitez powerless as striker crisis worsens

Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has been left bitterly frustrated at being unable to protect Milan Baros from the injury which has ruled him out for a month.

A recurrence of a hamstring injury forced Baros off after 18 minutes of the Czech Republic’s World Cup qualifier against Macedonia to leave Benitez without his two main strikers, with Djibril Cisse out for the season with a broken leg.