Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez has urged the club's fans to give him time before judging him.

The Spaniard has experienced a mixed start to his Liverpool career with The Reds winning all three of their home Premiership games, but failing to register a win away from Anfield.

His defensive system has come in for criticism when marking from set-pieces and playing with one striker in attack away from home.

Benitez is willing to stick with his style of playing with zonal marking and is confident that he will get his ideas across to the players in time.

"When you talk about statistics, you need time. Perhaps at the end of the season they will say different things," said Benitez.

"I am sure that if you see TV and watch other matches you will see a lot of goals scored from set-pieces, corners and free kicks against teams who mark man to man.

"Let us wait until the end of the season and then we will have a better set of statistics on the subject than we have at the moment to compare man-to-man and zonal marking.

"We have a lot more games to play and only then can we discuss how we have done."

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