Liverpool keeper Jose Reina is Premier Leagues best, says Rafael Benitez

Published: 8:37AM GMT 06 March 2010

Goals: Jose Reina is a stone at behind for Liverpool, says Benitez Photo: ACTION IMAGES

The 27-year Spain general has committed to a new understanding to sentinel off seductiveness from a series of Europe"s tip clubs.

Reina has been Liverpool"s player of the deteriorate and, with twelve purify sheets, is in the using for the league"s Golden Glove endowment with harmed Chelsea opposition Petr Cech.

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"We are unequivocally gratified since I recollect at the commencement people pronounced "for England, in the air, he is not the best"," pronounced Benitez.

"He is the most appropriate in England, miles afar from the others, and we are unequivocally gratified to keep him here for a prolonged time.

"He is regularly organising the defenders and is some-more than a keeper.

"Sometimes the character of goalkeepers is for them to be unequivocally great in the six-yard box, Pepe is unequivocally great in the 18-yard box."

Benitez pronounced Reina"s opening in last Sunday"s 2-1 feat over Blackburn, when he done a shining stoppage-time save from Chris Samba"s goalbound header, with pictures his class.

"When you speak about a goalkeeper in a tip side he routinely doesn"t have most to do," he added.

"To be concerned in this diversion generally at the finish and the save shows the turn of the player."