Chapter 495 Transformation

December 23rd, exactly sixteen o'clock in the afternoon.

Anfield Stadium.

Liverpool host Watford in the 19th round of the Premier League.

Because it is in its own home, these three points must be won by Liverpool, so Liverpool played the main force in this game, and Benitez directly shouted before the game that the three points must be taken. s slogan.

Liverpool still has a four-four-two formation, with Yang Yang and Peter Crouch serving as the team's double forwards, and Luis Garcia, Gerrard, Xavi Alonso and Pennant forming the midfield.

Among them, Luis Garcia and Pennant will be relatively more advanced and act as wing attackers.

This style of play created a clear advantage at the very beginning of the game, almost firmly controlling the situation, but the quality of the passes from the two flanks was not high, there were many mistakes, and there was no threat in the first ten minutes.

Instead, in the twelfth minute, the team changed its strategy. Crouch assisted Pennant and scored a goal, breaking the deadlock on the field and giving Liverpool the lead.

After changing sides in the second half, Benitez adjusted and Liverpool took the lead.

Gerrard made a direct pass after a breakthrough in the middle. After Yang Yang got the ball in the penalty area, he dexterously got rid of the defender and turned around and volleyed near the penalty spot, giving Liverpool another victory. This is also Yang Yang's fifteenth league goal this season. ball.

After a two-goal lead, Liverpool continued their game at a steady pace.

In the 66th minute, Benitez began to make substitutions, and Kuyt replaced Peter Crouch.

Just four minutes later, Yang Yang forced a breakthrough on the left and assisted the Dutch striker to score a goal, extending the score to 3-0.

A minute later, Benitez replaced two people in a row, Robbie Fowler replaced Yang Yang, and Aurelio replaced Gerrard.

Three goals ahead, Liverpool can be described as the overall situation has been set.

In the 88th minute of the game, Xavi Alonso scored a long shot to give Liverpool another victory.

Four to zero!

This is Liverpool's four-game winning streak with four goals in a row.

The whole Anfield stadium is completely in a frenzy, and everyone is very satisfied with Liverpool's recent performance.

Into December, Liverpool began to play form.

Benitez's pre-season rotation finally played a key role in this period of time. Not only the main players such as Yang Yang, Gerrard, Kuyt and Xavi Alonso performed well, but even Pennant, Gerrard, Kuyt and Xavi Alonso performed well. Players such as Luis Garcia have also frequently performed well.

The only regret is that Mohamed Sissoko's injury has always made the team's midfield defense full of hidden dangers.

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Liverpool beat Watford 4-0 at home, and the other three Premier League teams also did not fall behind.

Chelsea challenged Wigan Athletic away. After Lampard and Kalou scored two goals, veteran center Heskey scored two goals for Wigan Athletic in the second half to equalize the score. At the critical moment, Robben scored two goals in the second minute of stoppage time. Chelsea scored the winning goal.

In the end, the Blues beat Wigan Athletic 3-2 away.

Arsenal are at home against Blackburn, but the latter obviously do not intend to die away from the Gunners.

In the opening three minutes, Roundup scored the first goal for Blackburn, but soon, Arsenal's Gilberto Silva, Hleb, and Adebayor scored three goals in a row, Van Persie scored twice, Flamy Ni scored the sixth goal.

In the end, the Gunners beat Blackburn 6-2 at home.

Although this victory made the Gunners fans very excited, it also made Liverpool secretly sweat.

Because the team will face Blackburn at home in the next round.

In the Premier League, Blackburn, who has the title of violence, is quite difficult to play at home. From their proper away game against Arsenal, it is not difficult to see that they want to guarantee the basic game, that is, the home game.

For all the teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League, the devil's schedule has to be chosen, and it is impossible to do their best in every game, and it will only perform worse in the end.

Manchester United beat Aston Villa 3-0 away in this round, and Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice to ensure that Manchester United got a good start in the devil's schedule.

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Facts have also proved that Liverpool's concerns are not without reason.

December 26, also known as Boxing Day.

Liverpool away to Blackburn.

After winning four consecutive rounds with four goals, Liverpool finally broke the goal.

The goal was conceded in the 49th minute. Blackburn's Peddle crossed the ball from the left, and McCarthy, who used to play for Porto, scored in front of the goal.

Subsequently, Blackburn faced Liverpool with a strict defense.

In the first half, Benitez lined up the midfield combination of Gerrard and Aurelio, Yang Yang and Crouch sat on the bench, and lined up the play of three backs, Carragher, Agger and Hypia started at the same time.

This was originally hoping to make a transition and let the team survive this devilish schedule, but Blackburn seized the opportunity to score a goal first, but the team's offense has never been able to hit a threat.

Benitez made a substitution from the 64th minute, first replacing Carragher with Xavi Alonso, allowing Aurelio to return to the left, and Gerrard partnering with Xavi Alonso In the middle of the midfield, the team returned to the back four.

As a result, the team stabilized its position.

In the 71st minute, Yang Yang came on as a substitute and replaced Riise.

After coming off the bench, Yang Yang quickly made a threatening cross from the left. Harvey Alonso volleyed from the outside of the penalty area, rubbed the post a little and went out of the bottom line, causing the Blackburn fans to break out in a cold sweat. .

In the 81st minute, Finnan's accurate cross from the right fell to the back of the penalty area. Yang Yang quickly slanted into the penalty area, grabbed this point, and volleyed directly to get Blackburn's goal.

American goalkeeper Friedel was extremely excited in this game. He even flew to save Yang Yang's shot and resolved a wonderful goal, but fortunately, Gerrard, who was inserted in the back row, followed up to pick up the missed shot.

Liverpool then besieged Blackburn in a row, but Friedl performed brilliantly, saving consecutive shots from Xavi Alonso and Yang Yang, and finally kept the score 1-1 until the end of the game.

In the end, Liverpool tied Blackburn 1-1 away.

Benitez is still satisfied with the result of the game, because the team not only scored away points, but also did not have any injuries.

This should be the biggest hidden danger of all teams playing Blackburn away.

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At the same time, several other games were also played successively.

Chelsea played against Reading at home. Drogba was very brave, scoring twice and helping Chelsea lead twice, but unfortunately, Essien's last own goal allowed Reading to take a point away from Stamford Bridge.

The grievances between the two teams are quite deep, especially in the eighth round of this season, when Chelsea played away to Reading, the main goalkeeper Cech and the backup goalkeeper Cudicini were injured successively. These two goalkeepers have not yet returned.

And Mourinho was inexhaustibly angry at not being able to win Reading at home in this game, thinking that it was not just a three-point problem, but a missed opportunity for revenge.

Chelsea and Liverpool have lost points in consecutive draws, and Manchester United and Arsenal are the happiest.

Red Devils Manchester United host Wigan Athletic in this game. Cristiano Ronaldo came off the bench in the second half. As a result, he only took two minutes to break the deadlock on the field for Manchester United and scored a brace in the 50th minute. Spend.

Rooney then assisted Solskjaer to score the third goal.

United ended the fight, and it only took fourteen minutes from start to finish.

After the game, the media across the UK and Europe were stunned by Cristiano Ronaldo's brace in two consecutive games, with everyone agreeing that Manchester United's No. 7 was on the verge of a crucial Christmas devil's fixture after a season-long struggle. Under heavy pressure, he finally completed his transformation and played his best state.

Ferguson also spoke highly of his favorite player at the post-match press conference, "I had a hunch that he could change the game, so I let him come off the bench and I told him that he would change the game in the second half."

"It turns out that after the first half of the test, we found the opponent's weaknesses and loopholes, and we ended the game quickly."

"Cristiano Ronaldo has been in really good form lately, I think he's on his way to the peak of his career, and he's showing a lot of urgency himself."

For his favorite, Ferguson made no secret that he is a strong contender for the Premier League Player of the Year this season.

"Before the winter break, everyone will be thinking about Yang Yang from Liverpool, or Drogba from Chelsea, of course, both players are very good, but I believe that after the winter break, everyone will add one more player. The candidate, that's Cristiano Ronaldo."

"Three players have very good goalscoring ability, they can use their excellent performance to push the fans to the highest level, and we should expect that these three players will bring great changes to the Premier League this season."

Arsenal also won this round.

In the away game against Watford, although the Gunners were once equalized, Van Persie's goal at the last minute saved Wenger's team and finally helped Arsenal take three points away from the away game.

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At the end of the 20th round, Manchester United ranked first in the Premier League standings with 47 points, Chelsea ranked second with 43 points, Liverpool ranked third with 42 points, and Gunners Arsenal Na ranked fourth, and Bolton in fifth place are 36 points.

Among them, Bolton will also be Liverpool's opponent in the last game of the Devil's schedule in the winter break.

On the scorer list, since Yang Yang did not score in this round, Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo both scored twice, so Yang Yang's goals are still fifteen, Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice. Ronaldo is twelve and ten respectively.

Everyone is starting to believe that the competition in the Premier League is gradually starting to get better and more intense.