After Chen Yu won the Golden Ball Award, he became the veritable number one person in the world. This incident has caused a sensation in the world, and of course it caused even greater sensation in Liverpool.

As a popular actress in Liverpool, Liverpool Club now has to flatter Chen Yu, worried that Chen Yu will be poached. Now that Chen Yu has received such a great honor, Liverpool Club must of course say that club manager Rick Barry took the lead and held a grand celebration for Chen Yu, the specifications of the event were second only to Liverpool's winning the league championship.

The event lasted for one day and a half, and the third day was the quarter-finals of the League Cup against Chelsea. Originally, Chen Yu opposed such a grand celebration, but Rick Barry was very determined and Chen Yu was not good at insisting. Although Benitez also opposed the celebration for so long, he could not say this explicitly and could only let Rick Barry do anything.

Before Chen Yu attended the World Football Awards Ceremony, Liverpool lost 0:1 to Manchester United at home. The morale was a bit sluggish. Before Benitez could adjust, he was hit by the event to celebrate Chen Yu's winning World Football. Not only did the team's morale not raise, but the people's hearts were dispersed, but the players' arrogance was higher. He believed that there would be no problem with Chen Yu, the world's number one player, defeating Chelsea, whose hearts were disintegrated after the change of coaches.

However, Liverpool obviously underestimated Chelsea's determination and courage in this unscathing match in the League Cup.

Since Chelsea was defeated by Arsenal in the last round, Chelsea was also 7 points wide by the leader Arsenal, and there was a 5-point and 4-point difference between Liverpool and Manchester United. Although the league is not over halfway, Chelsea cannot say that there is no chance, but because there are many internal problems and contradictions that have not been resolved, Chelsea's hope of winning the league championship is already very small, so Chelsea's head coach Grant set his goal to compete for cup championships such as the League Cup and the FA Cup. Although at the peak of Chelsea, such a useless event was not in their hearts, but now both Grant and Chelsea need these unlimited championships.

In this game, Chelsea performed extremely bravely. They performed well in both offense and defense, while Liverpool performed very poorly. They even scored a quick start and then became weak. Chelsea not only performed well, but also had good luck. In the last minute of the first half, Essin opened Liverpool's goal with a long shot, allowing Liverpool to enter the midfield without even a chance to counterattack.

After the halftime break, Liverpool made a big counterattack, as if he wanted to eat Chelsea in one bite. The new world footballer Chen Yu also showed strong shooting ability. He still won three shots under Chelsea's deadly foul, but Chen Yu seemed to have exhausted all his luck. He hit the post twice with three shots, and another chance of empty goal was cleared by Chelsea's Dinghai Shentie Terry on the goal line.

Chelsea's luck is really good today. Liverpool's massive counterattack did not defeat Chelsea. Chelsea seemed to be able to defend passively, but Chelsea's counterattack in the 78th minute once again pierced the Liverpool goal. The goal was Shevchenko, who had been frustrated at Chelsea.

After the score became 2:0, Liverpool became extremely impatient. Although the offense was fierce, it could never break through Chelsea's defense. In the last five minutes, Liverpool could only use long passes and personal breakthroughs to attack Chelsea's defense. This was exactly what Chelsea wanted. Their tough defense repeatedly turned Liverpool's offense into set pieces practice, and this was what Chelsea was best at.

After the game entered stoppage time, Liverpool had not scored a goal yet. He was already weak in trying to advance. All he had left was to score a goal to save some face. However, Chelsea had been suppressed by Liverpool in the Cup for so long. Today, he finally had the opportunity to bully Liverpool. How could they show mercy? They must have played to the death.

However, although Chen Yu's luck is not good today, no team can restrain a game with his goal ability. In the second minute of stoppage time, Chen Yu finally took advantage of the opportunity of a set piece and pierced the goal guarded by Cech, saving Liverpool a little face. However, facing the united Chelsea, Chen Yu could not reverse the game. In the end, Liverpool lost 1:2 away and stopped in the quarterfinals of the League Cup.

In the other few games, Everton, Tottenham and Arsenal eliminated their opponents and advanced to the semi-finals. Originally, Liverpool was the biggest favorite to win the League Cup. After they were unexpectedly eliminated by Chelsea, the biggest favorite became Chelsea, with Arsenal following closely behind. In the eyes of the media and fans, the final championship is within the control of these two companies.

Liverpool were originally ambitious to win all the championships, but before half of the league was over, they were defeated in the League Cup, which made Benitez very embarrassed. At the post-match press conference, Benitez was furious. He first criticized the players for their poor condition and lack of aggressiveness in offense and defense, and then mocked Chelsea for playing too roughly and fouls too much. If the referee enforced the law normally, it would be nice that Chelsea would have left eight people to play in the end. In the end, Benitez also obscurely accused club manager Rick Barry of celebrating Chen Yu during the team's game.

Grant, who was immersed in the joy of victory, certainly would not care about Benitez's irony. Although the League Cup is not a top event, the eliminated opponent is Liverpool. Mourinho was in the Premier League for a while and he could not do anything to Liverpool in the Cup. He eliminated Liverpool as soon as he came on stage. This is still Liverpool with Chen Yu. Obviously, this has a bonus point effect for fans and Abraham, and can also strengthen his authority in the team to a certain extent.

Because of this, Grant praised Liverpool at the post-match press conference, believing that Chelsea's victory today has luck. Liverpool is still the best team in the world. Chen Yu is worthy of the best player in the world. Even though Chelsea has been strictly guarding Chen Yu throughout the game, he still has not been able to stop Chen Yu from scoring. If the game is a few more minutes, the final result will be difficult to say.

Although it was only eliminated in the League Cup, Liverpool's loss still attracted serious attention from the outside world. Including this game, Liverpool has lost two consecutive times, which has a great blow to Liverpool's morale and confidence. For giant teams, strength is of course the main one, accounting for 7 points, but confidence and morale also accounting for 2 points. Without morale and confidence, it will be difficult to exert its strength.

In addition, what has a greater impact on Liverpool is actually the attitude of other teams. Since winning the championship last season, Premier League teams are afraid of Liverpool and often lose three-pointers before the game. Once Chen Yu scores the first goal, he basically gives up the game. Now that Liverpool has lost two games in a row, other teams will definitely see that Liverpool is not invincible. Then it will be not so easy for Liverpool to easily abuse the food in the future.

Due to Benitez's complaints after the game, this also gave the media the opportunity to hype. For the media, no news is the worst thing.

The Times believes that Liverpool's transition from unbeaten to losing streak must be internal problems. Judging from Benitez's complaints after the game, either there is a conflict between Benitez and Rick Barry, or there is a conflict between Benitez and Chen Yu.

The Sun has more materials. They believe that the losing streak is not because of internal problems, but because of the losing streak, the internal problems of the team are exposed. The Sun believes that the conflict between Rick Barry and Benitez has a long history. They originally belong to two bosses, so it would be right to not deal with it. But the problem now is not the conflict between Benitez and Rick Barry, but the possible conflict between Benitez and Chen Yu. If Liverpool cannot solve the problem as soon as possible, then the possibility of meeting them may still be failure.

The famous English tabloid "The World News" is not as rigorous as the big media. They directly claim that Benitez is jealous of Chen Yu's influence and position in the team, so they put the blame for the failure after the game on Chen Yu and Rick Barry.

The media's fanning of the flames and spreading rumors had a significant impact on Liverpool's unity, forcing Rick Barry, Chen Yu and Benitez to issue a statement in person, saying that there was no conflict between them, but this instead gave the media even more hype. In particular, the "News of World" made up a lot of news about conflict between Chen Yu and Benitez, which made Chen Yu and Benitez very angry. The two issued a final warning to News of "News of World" that if they did not apologize, they would sue them in court.

Under the threat of Chen Yu and Benitez, a reporter from News of the World had to apologize, which resolved the storm.

Although the storm has been temporarily resolved, everyone knows that if Liverpool cannot win, the news will still appear later, and there will be really conflicts within Liverpool.

When the brutal Christmas battle was about to enter, Liverpool had such a problem, which was another huge blow to Liverpool's morale.

However, in this eventful winter, Liverpool is not without any good news. At the draw ceremony of the Champions League quarterfinals held in Nyon, Switzerland on the 21st, Liverpool drew a draw, and their opponent was Schalke 04. Among the second in the seven groups except Porto, Schalke 04 is a little stronger than Fenerbahce, Celtics, and Olympiacos. Liverpool has almost no obstacles to advance to the quarterfinals.

Chelsea's draw is also good. Their opponent is Olympiacos, and there is no problem in advancing to the quarterfinals. Arsenal and Manchester United's luck is much worse. Arsenal drew AC Milan, which is almost a life-and-death battle, while Manchester United's opponent is Lyon, which is not easy to play.
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