BENITEZ READY TO END MAGS’ MONDAY BLUES
NEWCASTLE HAVE LOST LAST 10 PREMKER LEAGUE GAMES ON MONDAY NIGHT
Benitez wants to be a record breaker at Newcastle United – and end the club’s dismal Monday night record.
The club, which takes on Burnley at Turf Moor tonight, has lost its last 10 Monday night games in the Premier League.
Newcastle’s last point came in September 2012, when the club, then managed by Alan Pardew, drew 2-2 against Everton at Goodison Park.
United manager Benitez, however, is unconcerned about the record.
“The records are there to be broken, so we have to change that – that’s it,” said Benitez.
Newcastle last scored a Premier League goal in a Monday night game in 2013.
Asked about that statistic, Benitez said: “Solution? To score and to win. That’s it. We will try to do that, to score and to win.
“We will score in this one, and we will win, and that’s it. We will change the stats. The stats are there to be changed.”
Benitez is unconcerned about records.
Asked if he ever worried about losing runs, Benitez said: “No. I’ve told you – you change the manager, you change the players, you change the environment, you change the league, you change everything. “The record is fine, but it doesn’t matter.
“You go there and how many of these players were playing the first game when they lost? How many of the Burnley players were playing? “Were they playing on Monday at this time or was it different? Was the league the same or was it different?
“The numbers change every year, so it’s good for writing something, but it doesn’t change too much.”
Benitez isn’t a superstitious manager.
The 58-year-old said: “I was in Italy, and everything was like ‘don’t do this beRafa cause we lost or we have to wear this because we won’, and in the end you don’t know what to do or wear!
“So you have to concentrate on your job and nothing else. These records, especially, I don’t care about at all, because since that record began, everything will have changed – new players every year, different managers, different moments.
“Everything is different.”
“Records are there to be broken so we have to change that” RAFA BENITEZ