France Football March 2015:
Q: Benitez, is known as a technician obsessed with control and consistency, two essential qualities to win competitions as long championships: how to explain then the conquest of only two national titles?
Benitez: It 's simple: to win a championship you have to have a good rose. That is a good base 11 and many parts of the level. Why is played over nine months, every week. In Valencia, Liverpool or here in Naples I had good teams, but have never been the best.
Everything is related only to the economic power of the club: every time I met my best equipped teams. The only chance is to do everything perfectly and hope that the top clubs do not express themselves to their level. On the contrary, in the Cup, you can compensate for the lower quality with cunning tactics.
But on one season, the key to winning is the rose. I have won two championships with Valencia because Real and Barcelona have made mistakes. If they were to their level, there would be no hope. As in Germany: if Bayern is at the top, no one else can win. In Italy it is the same with Juventus. And in the Premier the fight is always restricted to the two Manchester and Chelsea. The thing that binds all these teams? Are the richest.