The leader Manchester United was defeated by Liverpool, and Mourinho did not miss this good opportunity to chase points. With the goals of Drogba and Karau, Chelsea beat Portsmouth 0 and tied Liverpool with points. Because of the goal difference, the gap with Manchester United is only three points. With 9 rounds left in the league, the situation of the league's championship has become more intense.

Among the three giants, Manchester United has the best situation. Not only do they have three-pointers than Liverpool, but they also have 16 more goals than Liverpool and 19 more than Chelsea. The Premier League’s points rule is to look at the goal difference first. The goal difference is the same and then the mutual record of both sides. Therefore, as long as Liverpool and Chelsea cannot catch up with the goal difference, Manchester United is equivalent to one more point than the two teams on the basis of three-pointers.

In the previous round of the league, Manchester United drew 3 games and lost 4 games. According to this ratio, Manchester United may lose one game in the last 9 games. If Manchester United only loses one game, Liverpool and Chelsea must win all to win the championship. This is a difficult task for both Liverpool and Chelsea.

However, the game cannot be calculated like this. In the early stage of the league, because the Champions League is only a group stage and the pressure is not great, the attention of the giant teams is mostly in the league. However, now, the Champions League knockout stage has begun, and the giant teams have to fight on both sides, and the Champions League and the league cannot be neglected. Therefore, many small teams that accidentally scored in the Champions League will be dragged down. Even the giant teams with strong benches will be greatly affected. Once the main injury occurs, the impact will be even greater. For example, Chelsea, because of Terry's injury, was left behind by Manchester United in the league. If Manchester United had not been double-killed by Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool would have no chance to compete for the championship.

After this round of focus battle, Liverpool has no time to rest. They are about to face the challenge of Barcelona, ​​the giants from La Liga in the middle of the week.

In the first round of the match, Liverpool was a little unpopular, defeating the European Dream Team Barcelona away, and also laid a solid foundation for its promotion.

The team that wins such a game away from home has a probability of 10 in the Champions League. No team can complete the reversal on the away game with a loss at home, which is a great encouragement for Liverpool.

However, Barcelona has always been a team that can create miracles, and they also have players that can create miracles. Ronaldinho, Messi, Etoho, and Deco are all world-renowned stars. It is not impossible for them to unite and score two goals in Liverpool away.

Besides, the reason why Barcelona lost to Liverpool away is not because their strength is not enough. In large part, it is because they have internal conflicts. Not only are there problems at the top leaders, but there is also a lack of cooperation between the players and the coach. Even their ace scorer, African Cheetah Etoo, cannot make it.

Now that Barcelona is at a critical moment of life and death, no matter how conflicted Barcelona is, they will definitely unite against the outside world. Players like Etoo who can play a decisive role will definitely not be placed on the bench for a minute.

Liverpool are now doing well in the league, and their hopes of winning the league have increased significantly after defeating Manchester United.

Although Liverpool has been eager for the league championship for more than ten years, the initiative in the league is no longer in their own hands. If Manchester United wins 9 consecutive games, Liverpool will have no choice but to win all the games in the future, so they will definitely not give up the Champions League, the highest-level European event.

In order to add double insurance to his promotion, Benitez will also use some off-set tricks. After the game with Manchester United, the Sun suddenly revealed that Liverpool wanted to buy Barcelona striker Etoo and had already made an offer for Etoo.

Etoo has been in full swing recently, but since Etoo's agent is Espanyol Vig, Vig has a close relationship with Liverpool's Spanish gang, and Etoo is still having conflicts with head coach Rijcard. He didn't participate in the last game as critical as Liverpool, so it is not impossible for Etoo to join Liverpool.

Benitez's agent Garcia Quiron proved: "Barcelona opened Etoo to the English market and received some offers, including Liverpool and other clubs. Now Benitez is considering bidding for 30UU million in the summer to compete for the Cameroonians."

However, Benitez's agent Garcia Quiron believes that the Reds will inevitably enter a fierce price war, because according to the British media's intentions, Barcelona will definitely "raise prices". However, Garcia Quiron believes that after the American boss acquired Liverpool, Benitez is not worried about money. As long as Barcelona wants to let it go, it is not a problem for Liverpool to get Etoo.

Although the conflict between Etoo and Rijcard is well known to the world, the British inciting internal relations between Barcelona and seducing Etoo is too obvious. Under the instruction of Barcelona Club, the Spanish media Daily Sports immediately used an article "Etoo said he was very happy in Barcelona" as a "retaliation". Rijcard also took the initiative to take Etoo to attend the press conference. The two talked and laughed at the press conference, looking united, harmonious and family-friendly.

Although Rijkald was calm on the surface, in fact, the Dutch black swan was full of worries.

In the top focus battle in this round of the list, Sevilla overtook Barcelona and defeated Barcelona with a l point advantage to win the lead position. However, Real Madrid still stagnated and tied Getafe at home. As Atletico Madrid lost to Huelva in the last game, Real Madrid retained the fourth position and is currently under the score behind Sevilla.

Barcelona has ushered in three important games in the past 7 days. The most important of these three games is the Champions League match against Liverpool, which will be held in the early morning of the 7th. The league still has a long way to go, and it doesn't matter to fall behind l points, not to mention that the score is still acceptable. Barcelona beat Sevilla at home. If the points are the same, the championship will eventually be Barcelona's. The Cup of Kings has never been a key consideration for Barcelona. Only the Champions League is the most important thing for Barcelona to dominate Europe. Zaragoza and Sevilla are the strongest players that Barcelona can find in La Liga.

It is also very suitable for the opponent to use their test to overtake Liverpool, so Barcelona played two sets of 34 sets with different contents in two games. One set was the midfielder who emphasized the road in Zaragoza, Xavi, Iniesta and Deco, and Max behind. The other set was the midfielder who emphasized the road in the wing, with only Xavi and Iniesta in the midfield, Van Bronkhorst and Zambrota responsible for the left and right channels, from full-back to assisted wingers. Barcelona has such a big change, so that Benitez cannot guess what he is selling in his gourd.

433 is a formation that Rijkaard has never changed in the past four years since he took office, but he has changed in the last two games, because facing Liverpool, Barcelona, ​​who plays away, must score goals to have a chance to advance.

For a game that has fallen behind before the start, Rijkaard is no longer considering the balance of offense and defense. Barcelona are confident in their offensive abilities, but they do not trust their defensive abilities. However, in this away game, so in this round of the league, Barcelona also appeared two wingers, Jiuli and Messi, who are both breakthrough types. They scored goals or even scored in the opening minutes, and shaking the opponent is the effect he is pursuing now. As for defense, the only central defender who is guarding against opponents is Puyor. Most of Barcelona's defense will be set in the frontcourt, and the main method of defense against counterattack is tactical fouls.

How much level can Etoo and Messi play is the key to Barcelona's reversal of Liverpool. Among Barcelona's four forwards, Etoo and Messi's defensive ability is much greater than Ronaldo and Juli. However, after recovering from injury, Messi did not dare to make large defensive moves in the last two games, so Etoo is more important. He runs hard in the frontcourt and crazy pressing will bring great benefits to Barcelona's defense.

Etoo's role is so important, Rijkald certainly has to temporarily reconcile with him. Now Liverpool is using despicable means to provoke Etoo's relationship with the team, so Rijkald's counterattack is also normal.

Rijcard said, "Barcelona lost in the first leg because the team did not seize the opportunity to kill Liverpool, not how good Liverpool played. Now that Etoo is back, Messi is in a better form than the previous game. I believe we have hope to beat Liverpool away to advance."

At this time, the senior management of Barcelona club also stood up to support Rijkaard and Barcelona. Beckyristan said in an interview before leaving for Liverpool that he was sure that if Liverpool took the defensive and let Barcelona attack, his team might score two goals in a short time and move back to the disadvantage and finally qualify. He said: "If Liverpool is ready to use defense to ensure the advantage of the first leg, it will be very beneficial to Barcelona. We have the ability to score two goals in a short time."

"Barcelona must ensure efficiency and at the same time have a fighting spirit. If we can intercept the ball in the opponent's half, that would be better." Beckyristan also emphasized, "In the Copa del Rey, we played very well against Zaragoza in the first half and the first half of the league with Sevilla. Barcelona played well. They didn't score because of a penalty when they lost in the league. Anfield's atmosphere was very good, but Liverpool had lost many games there. If they can lose to Arsenal or Manchester United, why can't they lose to Barcelona?... What Barcelona needs to do is to continue to maintain the style of the recent games. If there is an opportunity, it needs to be grasped. Barcelona must score first so that they can continue to put pressure on the opponent. At the same time, they should pay attention to protecting their own penalty area. They need to be vigilant at all times, because there is a Chen Yu in the opponent's camp. He has broken our goal many times. The defense against him must be in place. Only by limiting him can we win the final victory."

Everyone on earth knows that Barcelona's most feared is the defensive counterattack. Beckyristan just wants to anger Benitez and Liverpool players so that the duel can be held in Barcelona's favorite way. However, Benitez has always been very steady in his behavior. It's easy to say how big the provocation of Beckyristan can play.

Benitez was not in the mood and had no energy to study Barcelona before playing Manchester United. Now that Manchester United has finished playing, Benitez immediately began to study the trends of Barcelona in these two rounds.

In the two games against Zaragoza and Sevilla, Barcelona's biggest change was that Juli and Messi appeared at the same time, playing against Messi with his left foot, while Ronaldo played against the unfamiliar left winger, and Ronaldo played against the back center. This kind of winger position is more convex than the center position, which is currently very rare. It was once Real Madrid's style of playing that dominated Europe in the 1950s and 1960s. In the two games, Etoo and Ronaldo played together for only 10 minutes. It can be seen that Rijcard did not fully demonstrate Barcelona's strength. Making Messi adapt to the left winger is the key to two games. Once Etooho appears, Barcelona's extreme offensive style will definitely be sharper.

However, Rijkald's tricks cannot be concealed by Benitez. Although Benitez is not as good as Rijkald in playing football, Benitez is at least twice as good as Rijkald in terms of tactics.

So after studying Barcelona's recent games, Benitez became more confident. He said at a press conference that Barcelona is a super strong team, but he is very familiar with Barcelona, ​​but Barcelona is not that familiar with Liverpool. This is the reason why Liverpool won away. In response to Rijkaard, Liverpool said that Liverpool played poorly. Benitez said that at home Anfield, Liverpool would not give Barcelona a chance. "I am very familiar with them. Although they practiced the 343 formation in the league, I don't think Barcelona will use the 343 formation because they are afraid of our forward attack power. If they dare to use 34, we can also curb their sharp knife. Just like we have curbed Manchester United, our forward can also make their defense a sieve. Here, Barcelona has no hope to lead the victory. Now we are stronger than when we won the championship in 2005."

Although Rijcard respects Benitez very much, Benitez's words hurt people. In this case, if Rijcard does not fight back, it will definitely affect the morale of the team and the fans. So Rijcard also said in an interview with the reporter, "I feel honored to fight with a coach who knows everything. But smart people understand this truth: the more you know, the more you realize that you know nothing. Barcelona's problem is that they have not played well at home, so there is nothing to lose.

It is necessary to attack. Liverpool must face home fans, the pressure is on their side, not on our side. Now Liverpool fans and media believe that they have a great chance to qualify, which is an opportunity for Barcelona. Liverpool's style of play will not change, reclaim the backcourt and then find a counterattack. Barcelona has only one way to attack. There are many possibilities to play 34, but no matter which style of play, the most important thing is that the whole team will act consistently, because any style of play is based on the unity and harmony of the whole team."

The team is strong and powerful. Benitius is confident about Tuesday's game. He does not intend to fight Rijkaard, but wants to fully demonstrate his strength. "Compared with the team that won the European championship in 2005, we not only did not lose anything, but made progress. I think the team performed very well in 2005. You should know that it is very difficult to defeat Olympiax, Leverkusen, Juventus and Chelsea in a row. They are all top teams. Some people may say 'luck,' but I have to say, luck is only one or two games, and cannot be in all games. To me, beating Barcelona means you can beat all top teams."

While preparing for the game in a tense manner, Barcelona players also did not forget to launch a psychological offensive. Etoho, Xavi, Ronaldinho and other players expressed that the team was confident of completing the reversal on the road.

Especially Ronaldinho, as Barcelona's top brand, he has been attacked the most by the English media and fans. A few days ago, a British gambling website spoofed the image of Ronaldinho. In a promotional poster, Ronaldinho's head was placed on an obese sumo wrestler. "Ronaldinho"'s breasts were sagging and his belly was fat. Behind him was a picture of Goodjohansen and Etoo in dressed up in armed personnel. The theme was the pun "Patau" no chance), which not only satirized Ronaldinho and mocked Barcelona.

The English Sun continued to reveal the negative news about Ronaldinho. The reporter used photo comparison in the newspaper to show the fact that Ronaldinho became fat. He sarcastically said: "Ronaldinho is still a heavyweight in the team, but his weight has problems." The Daily Mail also revealed that Ronaldinho's weight has exceeded 7 kilograms. In addition, Ronaldinho only participated in one-third of the team's training class this season. After the weight problem was exposed by the media, he did not intend to change his eating habits. He still feasted every day and ate barbecue. The Tramonti restaurant run by the Italian Lombardo brothers is also the place where Ronaldinho loves to go.

Liverpool fans spoofed Ronaldinho's image on the Internet, cartoonizing Ronaldinho, grinning happily, her huge body was very exaggerated, and her breasts were exposed, like a bloated fat woman.

Ronaldinho was very angry about this. After a training session, he deliberately exposed his chest and abdominal muscles to prove that he was still strong, and said that he wanted to score a goal at Anfield. This is his dream and he must realize it. Now that the opportunity has come, he will not let Liverpool go."
Chapter completed!