"It was a fantastic goal and it showed the quality that Andriy has," said Benitez after victory at Toulouse yesterday. "When we bought him, we were thinking about a striker with different movement and quality and game intelligence and Andriy has all of those.

"Because he was a free transfer, people were maybe talking about Torres or the other new buys but we knew that he could be a revelation.

"We knew he could give us different things. We have Torres, Crouch, Kuyt and Voronin and now we can use different players and look for different things."