GETTY Liverpool striker Christian Benteke has been told by Jurgen Klopp to wait for the 'perfect moment'

The £32.5m striker has not played a single minute in the last three games and was left anchored on the substitutes’ bench by manager Jurgen Klopp for Sunday’s Capital One Cup Final penalty shoot-out defeat to Manchester City. Benteke is prepared to try and battle to win Klopp round and rejected a lucrative move to the Chinese Super League after refusing to call time on his spell at Anfield. He is currently behind Daniel Sturridge and Divock Origi in the pecking order despite being Liverpool’s leading scorer, but Klopp said Benteke can only work hard in training and wait for his chance. “The situation for players is not always the sunny side of life. Timing is everything,” said Klopp, who faces Manchester City again tonight this time in the Premier League.

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“Christian wasn’t in the best moment of his career four or five weeks ago. It was obvious. Then Daniel Sturridge came back and then we had to think about what we do: whether to bring Daniel as substitute or let him start. “The type of game gives me the best advice about what I have to do. I can’t just say ‘he needs minutes, go’. “This is not a pre-season. It is a tournament and you have to win all the time. The only thing a player can do in a situation like this, not just Christian, is first of all accept the situation. “Accept it in a positive way and don't think, ‘I am on the bench, I don't have pressure - Thank God.’ “You don't talk about the situation and tell everyone, ‘I haven't done this’ and ‘I don't know what is wrong.’ The answer is train as good as you can and then you can be in a perfect moment.