Source: SKY_Sports
Aurelio - Rafa proud of result
Fabio Aurelio was delighted to help Rafa Benitez overcome Real Madrid on Tuesday and silence the Spaniards.
The Liverpool full-back played the full 90 minutes on Tuesday as the Reds demolished Real 4-0 in the UEFA Champions League.
That Merseyside mauling sent the Primera Liga side crashing out of Europe, while Liverpool march on into the quarter-finals.
The result helped to quash any suggestions that Benitez's men lack a cutting edge, while the Reds coach also made an emphatic point to any doubters back in his homeland.
"The victory meant a lot to Rafa. He comes from Madrid, he worked and played for Real," said Aurelio.
"So it was important for him to show that he has grown as a manager, he is as pleased about the result as all of us.
"He has achieved many fine results in the Champions League but this was a fine, attacking victory. That, too, was important because of the things that Madrid had been saying about us before the game.
"That we were boring and defensive, that we only wanted a 0-0 in the Bernabeu and we were not interested in playing good football."
He added: "We have shown that we can also be a strong, attacking team. In (Steven) Gerrard and (Fernando) Torres we have fine players who can score goals.
"That is what made the result so beautiful for us, to play like that and score those goals. We can be an attacking team as well.
"It was a perfect result and a perfect performance. Perfect, just perfect.
"It was probably our best performance of the season, we passed the ball well, defended well and attacked well."
