Kewell injury baffles Benitez

Rafael Benitez’s patience is being tested as he struggles to work out the baffling nature of the injury which has kept Harry Kewell out of Liverpool’s Champions League match at Bayer Leverkusen tomorrow.

Kewell limped off in the Carling Cup final 10 days ago and was not fit for Saturday’s Barclays Premiership defeat at Newcastle. But Benitez was initially building his plans for this Champions League last-16 second leg around the prospect of the winger being fit to play.