Of course it is gratifying to continue to win, but what is even more gratifying is that in this round of competition, second-ranked Chelsea made a mistake and lost at their home court.
In this way, Liverpool's points advantage over Chelsea becomes even greater, and the Red Army's certainty of winning the Premier League title this season becomes even greater.
With such joy, on April 5, Liverpool continued to sit at home and ushered in the challenge of Bournemouth in the 31st round of the Premier League.
Bournemouth are currently in 11th place, a good result, but that's for themselves. For Liverpool, such an opponent is now a very small threat, especially an opponent who is in the middle of the pack, has no hope of winning the championship, and has no worries about relegation.
The progress of the game also confirmed everyone’s thoughts.
In this game, Liverpool's ball possession rate reached more than 70%, which was more than twice that of its opponent Burnley.
Reflected in the offensive threat, Liverpool scored in the first 12 minutes with an assist from Coutinho and Firmino.
Then, in the 40th minute, Willard expanded the score with a direct free kick.
In the 63rd minute of the second half, Firmino assisted Coutinho to score, and Liverpool led 3-0.
Then Klopp started to make substitutions.
But even so, Liverpool still broke through the opponent's goal again in the 81st minute with Willard's long-range shot from outside the penalty area and the heavy artillery world wave.
Liverpool leads Bournemouth 4-0.
It was not until the end of the game, in the 87th minute, that Bournemouth's forward Joshua King scored a goal in the penalty area during the chaos caused by a corner kick attack, breaking through Liverpool's goal and scoring a face-saving goal. of a goal.
In the end, Liverpool defeated Bournemouth 4-1 at home and won the 31st round of the league.
After playing this game, Willard's total goals in 2017 have reached 50 goals, breaking the 50 mark. But it’s only April, and the first half of the year is far from over! This means that throughout this year, Willard's total annual goals will exceed the 100-goal mark, which has become a high probability event.
Everyone can only marvel at Willard's scoring efficiency.
Three days later, on April 8, in the 32nd round of the Premier League, Liverpool challenged Stoke City away from home.
Because the next game is the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals against Barcelona at home three days later, Liverpool made a large rotation in this 32nd round of the league. Many main players did not start and sat on the bench. superior.
Coupled with the factors of the away game, Liverpool played a bit difficult in this game, and it was Liverpool who even conceded the goal first.
Under the influence of the intensive schedule, three main players in the Liverpool team, Henderson, Lallana, and Mane, and three other non-main players have been injured and have entered the injured list.
Everyone had some concerns about this game, fearing that they would be injured and not be able to play against Barcelona. Therefore, the players played a little cautiously, and their away form was not good, so they were unable to score a goal.
Until the 44th minute of the first half, Stoke City played a wonderful teamwork to tear apart Liverpool's defense. In the end, their winger Shaqiri assisted forward Walters and scored with a side hook in the penalty area, 1- 0 ahead of Liverpool.
Walters' goal ignited the atmosphere at Stoke City's home ground, and the home fans applauded and cheered enthusiastically in the stands to celebrate their first goal to lead the powerful Red Army Liverpool.
It's a pity that they were happy too early.
After the halftime break, Klopp replaced Coutinho and Firmino in succession. Coupled with the organization and dispatch of Velarde in the midfield, Stoke City's defense collapsed in the second half.
In the 59th minute, Velarde dribbled the ball through the middle and then hit the wall with starting center Origi. Then he shot from the right side of the top of the penalty area, creating a high-quality long-range shot.
Although Stoke City's goalkeeper was not slow to react and made a save immediately, Willard's ball was too powerful, too fast, and the angle was too tricky. In the end, his save was beyond his reach and he could only watch the ball. Fly into the upper right corner.
Willard equalized for Liverpool.
Then, when Stoke City went all out to stare at Velarde, Velarde passed the penalty area in the 75th minute and sent the ball to Coutinho.
Faced with the pressure from the defender, Coutinho did not force the goal. Instead, he made a header and passed the ball to Origi in the center.
Origi didn't wait for the ball to hit the ground. He volleyed directly while running and sent the ball into the Stoke City gate.
The ball was facing the goal, and it was too close. The goalkeeper had no choice but to subconsciously stretch out his hand, but he didn't touch anything and watched the ball fly into the goal.
In the end, Liverpool reversed Stoke City 2-1 away from home and achieved a narrow victory in the 32nd round of the league.
After winning this narrow victory, Liverpool's points have reached 90 points. In other seasons, 90 points would have been enough to win the championship. Unfortunately, it is still early before the end of the league. There are still 6 games left. It cannot be concluded that Liverpool will definitely win the championship. It can only be said that the probability is quite high. Liverpool has a very high room for error and can go all out to invest in many goals. In line combat.
This is naturally also a positive influence and effect of Liverpool's current huge points advantage in the league.
With the arrival of the Champions League match day, the media's hype about Liverpool VS Barcelona has been overwhelming.
There is no doubt that this is a very valuable knockout match, even more valuable than the European derby between Real Madrid and Bayern, because Liverpool has the new Ballon d'Or winner Velarde in the team, and Barcelona has five Ballon d'Or winners. The quasi-ball king Messi.
Both sides are very strong, and with superstars gathered together, the gold content of this game is naturally high.
Everyone is looking forward to a powerful dialogue between the two sides that will blind the eyes of all media and fans.
Before the game started, in the player tunnel, Velarde chatted with Messi, Mascherano, Neymar and other compatriots or old acquaintances in the Barcelona team for a while.
But this will not affect everyone's efforts to win the game later.
At 20:45 in the evening on April 11, with the whistle of Polish referee Marciniak, the first leg of the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals of the 2016/2017 season, Liverpool VS Barcelona, officially started at Anfield Stadium.
For Barcelona, they have the advantage of playing first before home in the schedule. Even if they lose in the first round, they may come back in the second round.
But for Liverpool, the disadvantage in the schedule means that they must win at home. If you can't win at home, it will be difficult to win on the road.
This is destined to be the main tone of this game, that is, Liverpool uses the high position to press the main attack, while Barcelona uses their passing football to control the ball possession rate, and then uses the ball possession rate to delay time to defend, and then wait for opportunities to counterattack.
Once Barcelona finds an open opportunity, with the ability of Iniesta, Messi, and Neymar to organize and pass breakthroughs, plus the shooting finishing abilities of Messi, Neymar, and Suarez, Barcelona's offense is still quite threatening.
