Andre Ayew's brace put pressure on Liverpool to continue scoring goals. They were already lagging behind Leicester City in points, and it was absolutely impossible to take all three points without scoring.
Therefore, after the game restarted, Liverpool had to press forward aggressively to start a positional battle in an effort to regain the lead.
But at this time, Swansea seemed to be satisfied with the score of 2-2. Instead of attacking Liverpool, they shrank to their own half and even set up a bus within 30 meters of the goal to defend.
Of course, perhaps Swansea does not have no desire to attack, but just wants to avoid Liverpool's edge and wait for the opportunity to counterattack.
If they can get a good counterattack opportunity, I believe Swansea will never care about scoring another goal and leading Liverpool again.
I have to say that Swansea's idea was correct. In the 67th minute, midfielder Britton sent a long pass through the ball, allowing forward Andre Ayew to successfully counter the offside. , almost scoring a single goal.
Fortunately, Willard saw the opponent's intention in advance and shouted to Lovren before Britton got the ball, asking him to return to defense.
After Andre Ayew overtook Kolo Toure and received Britten's through ball behind Kolo Toure, he only took two steps before being chased back by Lovren who was desperately trying to catch up without the ball. After catching up, a flying shovel from the side knocked Andre Ayew to the ground.
Although Lovren received a yellow card and gave the opponent a free kick in the frontcourt, fortunately, the opponent's dangerous attack was resolved.
This was also Swansea's most threatening counterattack in the second half, and they have not been able to play such a threatening attack since then.
Liverpool, under the leadership of Willard, bombarded Swansea's defense wave after wave, striving to score goals to regain the lead.
Despite the bad weather and slippery venue, the Red Army with Willard finally broke through Swansea's goal in the 80th minute.
It was Willard who scored the goal.
He rushed into the penalty area, leaped 8 meters in front of the goal, beat Swansea center back Ashley Williams and Amat, and received a powerful pass from Firmino from the wing. He hit the goal with his header and pushed the ball hard into the goal.
Velarde's strong physique and ability to jump and grab points allowed him to grab the spot even if he was interfered by the opponent's two central defenders.
"The header went in!"
"Villade scored twice to help Liverpool take the lead again 3-2."
"The Red Army saw hope of winning again."
"If Swansea cannot equalize the score again, Liverpool can take all three points, tie Leicester City in the real-time standings, overtake the ranking with a goal difference advantage, and reach the top of the list."
"Of course, Leicester City has not played this round of games yet. Even if Liverpool wins this game, they still have to expect the Blue Foxes to lose, so that they can secure their first place in the standings."
"But no matter how the Blue Fox plays in the future, Liverpool must first ensure that they can win this game."
After the game restarted, Liverpool, which was only leading by one goal, did not shrink its defense to defend this one-goal lead.
If the head coach is Mourinho, there is a high probability that he will choose to do this, but Klopp is not Mourinho. Klopp advocates offensive football, and his defense is to press and attack from the midfield and high positions, and is never passive. Set up a bus and iron barrel formation to defend.
Therefore, in the last ten minutes of the game, the two sides actually played more intensely.
Swansea wanted to score a goal to equalize the score and block Liverpool's pursuit of the title. Liverpool, on the other hand, also wants to hold on to their one-goal lead, and also wants to continue to attack, continue to score goals, and completely seal the victory.
However, poor weather and venue conditions prevented both sides from scoring in the end.
After 3 minutes of stoppage time, the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game. Liverpool lost a goal first and beat Swansea 3-2 in a thrilling away game, winning the penultimate round of the league and tying the score. Leicester City has gained points and currently ranks first in the standings with a goal difference advantage.
However, Leicester City has not yet played this round of games. Whether Liverpool can secure the top spot in the standings depends on the result of Leicester City's game.
The next day, also in this league round, Leicester City challenged Manchester United away.
If we talk purely about grudges, Manchester United, Liverpool's mortal enemy, should let go and let Leicester City win with all three points, preventing Liverpool from winning the championship.
But Manchester United also had the need to grab points to qualify for the European war, so Manchester United did not let go in this game. After 90 minutes of fighting with Leicester City, the two sides tied 1-1.
This is undoubtedly good news for Liverpool; because they have narrowed the points gap with Leicester City, the two sides are now only 1 point apart. But the bad thing is that Leicester City still got a point after all, and still ranked ahead of Liverpool by one point.
If Liverpool wants to win the championship, it still has to rely on Leicester City to make mistakes in the last two rounds of the league, so that the Red Army can overtake and win the championship.
But in any case, the suspense of the Premier League championship this season has continued until now, and it is more likely to continue until the final round. This will undoubtedly surprise the media and neutral fans.
The most annoying thing is that like the Bundesliga and Ligue 1, they lose the suspense of the championship early.
Especially the two teams competing for the championship this year, whether Liverpool or Leicester City, once they win the championship, they will win the Premier League championship for the first time in team history. The Premier League will usher in a new championship team. As the league comes By the end of the period, the attention of the Premier League was getting higher and higher.
Under normal circumstances, everyone is more optimistic about the super giant Liverpool. But now there are two factors. First, Liverpool's points are 1 point less than Leicester City. If Leicester City wins the last two rounds, it will be useless for Liverpool to struggle. Second, Liverpool is fighting on two fronts and has the second round of the Europa League to play. In addition, many people were injured in the early stage due to multi-front fighting. There are still several sick patients and they are also very distressed in terms of physical fitness.
Therefore, although Liverpool is more famous than Leicester City, it is really hard to say who the final champion will be.
On May 5, when Leicester City could take a good rest and prepare for the next round of the Premier League, Liverpool had to face the challenge of Villarreal at home.
Fortunately, Liverpool won 2-0 in the first leg. Not only did they lead by two goals in total, they also had a two-goal advantage.
In view of the severe situation in the league, Klopp finally stopped sticking to his pedantic 433 high-pressing tactics in this game. Instead, he switched to a 4231 defensive counterattack formation, preparing to win at the lowest cost and advance to the finals.
The double defensive midfielders are Joe Allen and Emre Can, the wide midfielders are Lallana and Jordan Ibe, Willard serves as the central midfielder, and Benteke serves as the lone forward.
Coutinho, Sturridge, Firmino and many other main players were rotated to prepare for the last two Premier League games. This game focused on defensive counterattacks, using Willard's offensive and defensive abilities to coordinate in the middle, win and advance. finals.
Although Liverpool's 4231 formation has played less since Klopp took office, with Verard in the middle to coordinate and direct, plus Verard's own physical fitness, speed, consciousness, defensive ability, offensive organization ability, etc., after the game started Villarreal, who wanted to imitate Dortmund and capture Anfield, did not succeed.
Not only that, Liverpool also took advantage of Villarreal's massive attack. In the 14th minute, Velarde sent an exquisite long pass through the empty Villarreal back. On the defensive line, Benteke succeeded in countering offside and then volleyed the ball into the far corner.
Liverpool opened the scoring, leading 1-0, with a total score of 3-0, which basically sealed the victory.
This score made Liverpool more comfortable in the subsequent games, and Villarreal found it difficult to find any opportunities to break the Red Army's defense.
Although several main forwards have been replaced, the back line and midfielder are all main or rotation main players. Coupled with Willard's detection and filling of vacancies, Liverpool's defense is basically watertight, and there is no more quarter-final defeat. The dilemma of Dortmund scoring twice in ten minutes.
While maintaining a solid defense, Liverpool will also try to counterattack after getting the ball. If they can continue to expand the score, it will completely kill the suspense of the game.
The second goal that the fans were looking forward to did not have to wait long, because Villarreal had to press heavily in order to score, resulting in a huge void in the backcourt, even the center backs were overwhelmed. The center line participates in the attack.
As a result, in the 29th minute, Villard once again penetrated their defense with a long diagonal pass. Lallana came in from the left at high speed. After receiving the pass from Villard, he dribbled the ball diagonally into the penalty area. .
Defender Musacchio, who was the last one to have a chance to intercept Lallana, stepped back and got stuck, trying to slow down Lallana and waiting for his teammates to return to defense. However, Lallana was too fast, and the two soon came into contact. When Musacchio retreated to the line of the penalty area, he had no choice but to retreat.
As a result, Lallana deflected the ball and rushed into the penalty area. In desperation, Musacchio, who turned around and fought back, pushed Lallana from behind. As a result, Lallana, who had already dribbled the ball into the penalty area, was pushed down in the penalty area.
"beep……"
The referee's whistle sounded. Musacchio committed a pushing foul in the penalty area and destroyed the opponent's one-on-one ball. The referee showed him a yellow card and awarded a penalty kick.
Velarde did not refuse and stepped forward to take the penalty kick, because only experience in the European war could barely give him hope of promotion.
There was no surprise. Velarde, whose shooting attribute had been increased to 95, easily kicked the ball into the lower left corner. Although goalkeeper Areola judged the right direction, the ball was too fast and the angle was too tricky, so it was still beyond his reach.
In the 30th minute of the first half, Willard hit a penalty shot to help Liverpool lead 4-0 with a total score, completely killing the suspense of the game.
It is basically impossible for Villarreal to score 4 goals in a row at Anfield and eliminate Liverpool with the advantage of away goals.
Liverpool is 99% guaranteed to win.
The subsequent development of the game did not surprise everyone.
Not to mention a comeback, Villarreal failed to score even a single goal under Liverpool's defensive counterattack tactics and Willard's command. Instead, Liverpool scored two goals in the second half and lost 0- 4.
In the end, Liverpool defeated Villarreal 2-0 in the first leg away, 4-0 in the second leg at home, and 6-0 in both legs, and advanced to the 2015/2016 Europa League final.
Willard scored another long-range shot in the second half, and finally won the best of the game with two shots and one pass.
In another semi-final, Sevilla from Spain defeated Shakhtar Donetsk and advanced to the final. Liverpool will compete with Sevilla for the Europa League championship this season.
However, the final will not be held until May 18. Liverpool must first play the last two rounds of the Premier League to determine the Premier League champion before going to compete with Sevilla.
