896 The Red Army Becomes a Rogue
As Liverpool won seven consecutive victories, Arsenal showed signs of fatigue at home after the midweek Champions League and was tied by Middlesbrough!
Their advantage over Liverpool is only 1 point left!
Unexpectedly, Manchester City was also tied 1:1 by Southampton at home!
Manchester City, who was unable to win in three rounds, was directly behind and gave Liverpool 3 points!
Not long ago, Manchester City was 2 points ahead of the second place and 5 points ahead of Liverpool!
Chelsea is waiting for the game at Stamford Bridge, and directly won the Manchester United League One!
A 4-0 match made Mourinho lead the team back to Stamford Bridge not only failed to take revenge, but also suffered almost humiliation and was massacred!
In the Premier League standings, the situation changes very quickly!
Arsenal, 23 points.
Liverpool, 22 points.
Manchester City, 20 points.
Chelsea, 19 points.
Manchester United, 13 points.
The two Manchester City heroes have recently become brothers in distress!
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The League Cup 1/8 final is coming, and Liverpool plays Reading at home.
Situ Yunbing continued to use the simple and rough 442 style to avoid excessive consumption as much as possible.
Reading was somewhat caught off guard in front of Liverpool, feeling that Liverpool is more like a Championship-level team than them.
Vardy and Lewandowski both showed their strength, each making a contribution to help Liverpool beat Reading 2-0 at home to score 3 points.
In the 10th round of the league, Liverpool challenged Crystal Palace as a guest. Liverpool, who had all the elite troops in the army, faced Crystal Palace, which was also defending and fighting against the extreme defense at home, suffered a heavy blow in less than 6 minutes of the game!
Lewandowski fell to the ground and fell into the field after being injured in a fight.
Situ Yunbing's face looked very ugly, and at the same time he felt a little helpless.
Before Gareth Bale came out of the ward, Lewandowski lay in again.
Crystal Palace's morale was greatly boosted, but after several consecutive fast attacks, Vardy, who was replaced by Liverpool, seized the opportunity to win the first goal!
After falling behind, Crystal Palace simply walked to the black road, launched a continuous fast attack on the side, and concentrated its firepower and attacked the side.
Liverpool's back line is in poor condition today. Robertson and Coolibaly made low-level mistakes one after another. The original good situation became very passive in an instant!
Crystal Palace's confrontation and pressing at a fast pace, as well as simple and fast counterattacks, were indeed in an orderly manner. Before the end of the first half, the score had become 3:2.
Crystal Palace leads!
During the halftime break, Situ Yunbing in the locker room reminded the defending players to cheer up. He did not want to see any mistakes in the defense line in the second half!
In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. Crystal Palace attacked and began to defend absolutely!
The home team fans cheered for the team with high-pitched singing, and they were looking forward to a victory at home!
Liverpool has to break through intensive defense, but it will be difficult for Lewandowski to be missing.
Situ Yunbing adjusted one after another until the 82nd minute of the game, Vardy's receiver in the penalty area was destroyed by the opponent. When Mbappe took the ball, he directly splashed the ball to the right when he shook it away. After snatching the opponent's player, he decisively pulled his feet and shot. The football flew straight to the upper right corner of the goal!
Hanging straight at the dead corner!
With Mbappe's goal in danger, Liverpool took away a draw 3:3 away.
Situ Yunbing was a little frustrated in an interview after the game. The team played a powerful player and then lost 2 points.
Any coach would probably be unable to swallow this result.
Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal have won the game in this round!
Manchester United and Tottenham also failed to win this round.
Liverpool's position in the standings fell to third place.
After Lewandowski decided to bid farewell to 2016, Situ Yunbing could only help Vardy straighten the main center when preparing for the battle in the team.
Although Mbappe wanted to play center, he rashly pushed him to the center position was just an irresponsible performance, and he still needed more growth.
As Vardy plays as the center, Liverpool needs to make a drastic change in technical and tactical aspects.
The caution in the past two months has been based on the front line in the middle of Lewandowski, and Sane and Mbappe on both wings have speed and skills. The key is that Lewandowski's role as a fulcrum will be very contributing, driving the entire attack group to exert its power.
Vardy may be just a threatening shooter, and it would be unrealistic to hope that he can play more.
Therefore, the team's tactical system needs to be changed.
As the fourth round of the mid-week Champions League group stage arrived, Situ Yunbing led a half-main lineup to challenge Copenhagen away.
In the away game, Situ Yunbing ordered the team to form a very conservative defensive counterattack formation.
Due to the loss in the last round, Porto faced Bruges at home again in this round. Given that Porto defeated Bruges away in the last round, it is basically no problem to win at home in this round.
Therefore, if Copenhagen wants to retain hope of promotion, they must get points from Liverpool and just give it a try. Because if they win, the situation will be relatively optimistic and if they don’t win, the next round will basically be a life-and-death battle.
But what Copenhagen unexpectedly was that Liverpool was playing a rogue at Anfield in the last round, and when he came to Copenhagen's doorstep, he became a rogue!
Who can imagine that the Red Army, the dignified dynasty overlord, the defending champion who won three consecutive Champions League titles will still fight back with defense!
This gives Copenhagen almost no retreat.
The Copenhagen coaches often smiled bitterly during the game.
Situ Yunbing is completely a Ming card game, just to be successful without losing.
If you can't lose, even if Liverpool cannot continue to maintain the top spot in the group, they can continue to suppress Copenhagen and lead them by 3 points!
If you win, Liverpool will win an affordable victory, and these 3 points will make them easier for the last two rounds of the game!
Copenhagen was very upright in launching a fierce attack against Liverpool at home, but after Liverpool actively compressed the defense space and made a intensive defense, their offense was quite difficult and the threat was almost invisible. Then Liverpool's counterattack was booming.
Even Sancho and Madison performed well in the game, not to mention the experienced Guerrero.
Although Liverpool has many opportunities, the 16-year-old Sancho is the one who takes the lead in the forward line today. He is not without a chance, but he basically beats away!
Those series of opportunities to beat the ball were on other Liverpool strikers, and they probably had already secured the victory!
Situ Yunbing had already been aware of this situation, and even talked to Sancho during the intermission, hoping that he would not affect his confidence because he missed too many opportunities.
Copenhagen probably felt that Liverpool could not score no matter how hard they played, so they strengthened their offense in the second half!
But Liverpool soon taught people.
Once Henderson's back plug was received and Guerrero passed the ball, and a precise shot was sent to the lower right corner of the goal.
Liverpool leads Copenhagen with one goal away.
Copenhagen suddenly had a burst of mentality!
Maybe I feel that after being teased by Liverpool for a long time, I was finally ruined by the scoundrel again!
Situ Yunbing decisively made a substitution, Sancho was replaced, and Valdy came on the stage.
Liverpool continued to play defensive counterattacks and quickly achieved good results.
In the 68th and 79th minutes of the game, Vardy scored two consecutive games, helping Liverpool beat Copenhagen 3-0 away!
After the game, the head coach of Copenhagen said in an extremely helpless tone: "If the defending champion adopts a defensive counterattack tactic against us, then our chances of winning are very small. They have the right to choose tactics, but they do not show the style of defending champions. This is a game that no other fans and spectators will be satisfied with except for Liverpool fans."
The implication is that as the defending champion, Liverpool should please audiences around the world.
But Situ Yunbing didn't care. He continued to humbly accept criticism from the outside world after the game.
He said calmly: "Yes, we played a bit conservatively, and I admit that because it is an indisputable fact.
But we have many important players injured. As the head coach, I have to weigh the team's physical fitness and condition. We will play in the Club World Cup in a month and a half. The outside world may not care about Liverpool's schedule. Only we ourselves know that now we can no longer afford the risk of over-expenditure and staff reduction."
After all, Liverpool still ranks third in the Premier League since the schedule is now, which has not happened in the past four years.
It is enough to show how fierce the situation of the Premier League championship this year is!
In another game in the same group, Porto defeated Bruges 1:0 at home.
Liverpool directly advanced to the Champions League quarterfinals two rounds ahead of schedule, but did not lock in the top spot in the group.
Because Liverpool now has 10 points.
Porto has 8 points.
Copenhagen only has 4 points.
Bruges was defeated in all four battles, which led to them being eliminated early.
Liverpool has an advantage in playing against Copenhagen, so even if Liverpool loses two consecutive games and Copenhagen wins two consecutive games, Liverpool will rank ahead of Copenhagen under the same score.
Liverpool, who returned to the league on the weekend, played against Watford at home.
The energetic Reds finally played the championship style that the outside world wanted at home!
The overall formation is extremely oppressed, and the midfield and backcourt are crazy counterattacks. As long as the counterattack is successful, Eriksen, Casemiro, Robertson, and Azpilicueta will pass the ball directly to find the trident on the front line!
There is no need for too much organizational adjustment at all.
This is the main change in Liverpool's technical and tactical adjustments this week.
Liverpool played a crushing effect against Watford at Anfield Stadium!
Mbappe frequently counter-offside cuts and seized many opportunities, and scored a hat trick with a goal on his head in the first and second half!
Vardy and Sane also made both contributions, and Eriksen scored with a long shot!
Although the defense also paid a certain price, Liverpool finally defeated Watford 6:2!
The competitive situation in the Premier League is not just due to changes in strong teams, but also changes in a large number of mid- and downstream teams in terms of lineup and technical and tactical aspects.
Chapter completed!