The next day, whether Liverpool defeated Arsenal 4-3 with the most goals in this round, or Leicester City overtook Arsenal and regained the top spot in the Premier League, it became a hot topic in England and even the entire European football world. topic of.
Of course, because of the successful commercial development of the Premier League, there are also quite a few overseas fans. Some fans are not fans of any team, but they pay attention to the Premier League just because they like the fierce competition in the Premier League. There are also a lot of these fans.
As neutral fans, they obviously like Leicester City even more when they beat the Big 6 and reach first place in the Premier League. They cheer for the Blue Fox and hope that Leicester City will eventually win the championship and stage a civilian legend.
However, Willard obviously had no time to pay attention to this. He was still saying goodbye to his girlfriends sadly.
Krisna and the other three are going back to school, and Desia is also going back to help her father Henderson handle business matters.
Willard is about to enter the loner mode. At least for a few months, he will not be able to have the pleasure of having four girlfriends sleeping with him and killing him.
When leaving, his girlfriends warned Willard that he would not be allowed to have sex with women in England. Willard repeatedly promised that the four of them were enough and he would never have sex with women. However, he also hoped that Desia, who had no schoolwork, could come to see him occasionally. Desia agreed and tried to come once a month. Anyway, they were not short of money now.
After bidding farewell to their girlfriends, on January 17, in the 22nd round of the Premier League, Liverpool continued to sit at home to face their arch-enemy Red Devils Manchester United. One of the two teams is nicknamed the Red Devils, and the other is nicknamed the Red Army. Therefore, the game between these two teams is also called the Double Red Club.
In the game that ended, Leicester City, the top team, was tied 1-1 by Aston Villa and only scored one point in this round. There is no doubt that this is a good opportunity for other teams behind, including Liverpool, to chase points.
Carrying the momentum of beating Arsenal at home in the last round, Liverpool hopes to continue to defeat their arch-rival Manchester United at Anfield and improve their points and rankings.
Liverpool's biggest rival is undoubtedly Manchester United. Because before Manchester United, it was Liverpool who won the most English top league titles. And what Ferguson, the godfather of Manchester United, said when he took office was: "My biggest wish in this life is to unseat Liverpool."
He did it.
Not only did he lead Manchester United to win 13 Premier League titles, surpassing Liverpool in the number of English top league titles, but he also led Manchester United to 13-0 in terms of the number of Premier League titles, which can be described as crushing. In addition, he also led the Red Devils to achieve the Triple Crown in the 1998/1999 season, an honor that Liverpool has never won.
Ferguson has retired, and Manchester United's current coach is the Dutchman Louis van Gaal. Liverpool can no longer seek revenge from Ferguson, but Manchester United is still there. Every time they meet Manchester United, the two sides are like life-or-death enemies, fighting with sparks flying and people falling on their backs.
The game between Liverpool and Manchester United is just like the Spanish El Clasico between Real Madrid and Barcelona. It can be called the English El Clasico.
However, since Ferguson retired, Manchester United's competitiveness has dropped by a level. Currently ranked 7th, it is difficult to say whether they can qualify for next season's Champions League or even the Europa League.
In today's English national derby away to Liverpool, Manchester United naturally wants to fight for it. Firstly, they do not want to see Liverpool win consecutively and continue to improve their points and rankings. On the other hand, they also need points.
After the game started, the fight like Mars hitting the earth that everyone expected did not happen.
Liverpool played Arsenal 4-3 in the last round, which was very exhausting both physically and mentally. And Manchester United didn't make much concessions, fighting Newcastle 3-3.
Moreover, Liverpool still has 8 injured players, and Manchester United is not much better. With 7 injured players, both sides are playing cautiously, not daring to fight too fiercely for fear of getting injured again. Of course, it is also true that after the last round of bloody battles, both sides were in poor condition.
This resulted in the offensive battle that the audience expected did not appear. Liverpool's full offense and full defense was not bad. In the first half, they occupied almost 60% of the ball possession rate and had several shots.
It's a pity that Van Gaal's Manchester United shrunk their defense and used a 4231 defensive counterattack formation to withstand Liverpool's attack, preventing Liverpool from scoring in the first half.
Moreover, the two sides did not produce a single yellow card in the entire first half. This is also an extremely rare scene in the history of battles between Liverpool and Manchester United.
However, during the halftime break, Klopp found the opponent's weakness and instructed his disciples to attack the wing where Manchester United right back Ashley Young was in the second half. Because Ashley Young is injured and has not recovered, and his performance in the first half was indeed poor and his condition is not good, why not take advantage of his illness and kill him?
Don't wait for Van Gaal to react and replace Ashley Young, this weakness will disappear.
Therefore, after a 15-minute break, after the start of the second half, left back Alberto Moreno, left midfielder Lucas, No. 7 Milner, who returned from injury and started as the left winger, and free agent Willard began to take turns. Attack the left flank, where Manchester United's right back Ashley Young is.
I have to say that Klopp's observations are still very careful. Manchester United is also full of injured soldiers. Ashley Young is indeed fighting with injuries and does not dare to collide with Liverpool. He is often eaten alive by Willard and Milner with their speed.
Just when Van Gaal felt bad and wanted to replace Ashley Young, in the 56th minute, Willard took the ball to face Ashley Young and slammed the ball towards the baseline again, and then from The outside squeezed through.
Ashley Young did not dare to confront Velarde head-on, but immediately turned around and returned to defense. However, Willard's speed is not slower than him, and he doesn't have to turn around like him. As a result, Willard caught up with the ball before Ashley Young and made a pass about 5 meters away from the baseline.
But Willard's pass was not a high-altitude ball, nor was it passed into the penalty area, but an inverted triangle pass. Although he is left-footed, Velarde's inverse foot has reached 87, and his passing ability is not bad in a wide range.
The pass was also very lucky this time, and it happened to reach Firmino who was advancing in the middle.
Firmino met the ball and ejected directly, playing with extremely high quality, avoiding the tackle of Manchester United defender Smalling and the flying midfielder Fellaini to block the hole of the gun, and then rushed in before goalkeeper De Gea made a save. , flew into the upper right corner of the goal.
Liverpool finally took advantage of Manchester United's hidden dangers on the wing to open the scoring, leading their archenemy 1-0. Both Firmino who scored the goal and Velarde who assisted, as well as his teammates and fans, all celebrated excitedly.
Van Gaal, on the other hand, waved his hand angrily, and then quickly replaced Ashley Young, who was injured and in poor condition, and replaced him with defender Jackson.
But it was too late. Although Manchester United did not concede any more goals, their offense failed to achieve any results. With Willard running all over the pitch to make up for Liverpool, it was like having one more person fighting, leaving Manchester United helpless.
Forward Rooney once hit a volley, which was of high quality, but it hit the crossbar and bounced off the baseline. After all, he was a bit unlucky.
In the end, after the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, Liverpool defeated their arch-enemy Manchester United 1-0 at home and won the 22nd round of the league.
Velarde continued his outstanding performance and received an assist.
