Liverpool's win in Eindhoven means Benitez has now won 40 games in Europe as Liverpool manager, surpassing Bob Paisley's previous mark of 39.

BBC: Benitez thrilled by young players

He is the master - we used to have the master at Liverpool in Bob Paisley, but he used the reverse psychology of praising teams - sometimes not even believing it himself.

BBC: SPORT | Football | Premiership | A sad feud that two clubs must stop

The reputation of the country's coaches has dipped dramatically from the glory years of the late 1970s and early 1980s when Bob Paisley led Liverpool to three European Cups and Brian Clough worked wonders by winning the competition twice with Nottingham Forest.

CNN: A dying breed: English managers on the brink?

On the field, any manager who has enjoyed a prolonged period of success such as Sir Alex Ferguson, or Bob Paisley and Brian Clough in the 70s and 80s, accepts that getting to the top is the easy bit, the hard part is to stay there.

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