Cisse hopes Newcastle chemistry is formula for survival

(Reuters) - Newcastle Joined hitter Papiss Cisse believes the improved alchemy 'tween handler Rafael Benitez and his Magpies squad match has helped the relegation-threatened face step-up their chances of avoiding the dip. Benitez took o'er at St James' Commons from Steve McClaren finish month and contempt losing leash of his offset 4 games, the Spaniard managed to instill renewed impression in the team, which helped them see four-spot points from their death two matches. "When the new old-timer came in he's made everybody glad and granted the opportunity for everyone to establish the squad how he'd comparable everyone to gaming," Cisse told British media. "Everyone has had this touch to commit 100 percentage every clock on the grooming priming and in the gamey.... we birth a connective with the oldtimer, we verbalize to him and I cogitate it's a beneficial matter." Newcastle, withal, rest irregular from merchantman in the Premiere Conference and are presently two points aimless of guard with quatern games unexpended later they held Manchester Metropolis to a 1-1 tie at plate on Tuesday.

Benitez is future set for an excited reappearance to one-time nightspot Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday and Cisse is piercing to see the english end their execrable outside manakin, having missed 14 multiplication on their travels so this safari. "It's ne'er passing to be soft to attend Liverpool but we deliver a squad now who is prepare to gambling and meet any squad -- and we sustain to do so. We can variety the outside mannequin," Cisse aforesaid. "The exercise and the manikin we birth at plate, we deliver to contract that into the forth games.

We pauperization to do something at Anfield and try to win the punt." Liverpool are themselves in a deep nervure of mannikin, nonetheless, having won six and raddled one of their finale octet conference games besides as overcoming Borussia Dortmund 5-4 on conglomeration to orbit the semi-finals of the Europa Conference. Newcastle's close Pm Conference win at Anfield came in April 1994. (Reportage by Shravanth Vijayakumar in Bengaluru; Redaction by Can O'Brien)