Benitez advises Rodgers to look to the future

Former Liverpool Manager Rafa Benitez says that Brendan Rodgers can only improve their fortunes if he looks to the future rather than dwelling on the past.

The club are 11th in the Premier League and in danger of Champions League elimination at the group stage after an inconsistent first three months of the season.

Rodgers guided the club to a runners-up finish last season, but struggled to integrate a clutch of new arrivals into the squad after the departure of top scorer, Luis Suarez, sold to Barcelona in July, or cope with the injury problems that have dogged England forward, Daniel Sturridge.

Benitez, now in charge at Napoli but with his family living on Merseyside, was the last manager to lead Liverpool to second place in 2009, but his team failed to progress and he left after they finished seventh the following season.

He told Sky Sports News: "You have to have this experience and say: 'What can we do now?'

 "We cannot change what happened so we have to think: 'What can we do for the future? How can we be in the same position?' So I think that's the only thing.”

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