Rafa is blaming the international break for Liverpool's derby-day shocker.

The Reds to play PSV Eindhoven on Tuesday night in their opening Champions League group match knowing they must find their best form, and quickly, or their carefully laid plans for this campaign will go up in smoke.

Benitez aims to bank on most of his fallen heroes, but will almost certainly bring back Craig Bellamy into his starting line-up.

Bellamy was not even on the bench at Goodison Park and watched the derby at home on television.

It was Bellamy's first experience of what skipper Steven Gerrard highlighted in his recent autobiography: Benitez's treatment of players like cogs in a wheel.

But it is something the Welshman accepts as part of being at a big club. "