The next day, in another FA Cup semi-final, Arsenal and Manchester City tied 1-1 within 90 minutes and entered overtime.
In overtime, Arsenal defeated Manchester City with Sanchez's goal in the 101st minute and met Liverpool in the final.
The two sides will compete for the longest championship honor in English football history in the FA Cup final on May 27.
Of course, this time is already after the last round of the Premier League.
What Liverpool want to do now is to actually win the Premier League championship that they have basically already won, and complete the feat of winning the first Premier League championship in team history at their home stadium, Anfield Stadium.
Before being restructured into the Premier League in the 1992/1993 season, Liverpool was the team with the most titles in England's top league (English League One).
After the reform of the Premier League, the team that has won the most Premier League championships is Manchester United, with a total of 13 times, which also made Sir Alex Ferguson a wise man. However, Liverpool has never won the Premier League championship after the reform. This has become The inner demon of everyone at Liverpool.
Liverpool's desire for the Premier League title is even more intense than the Champions League title.
If you count all the English top league titles before and after the restructuring, Manchester United has won a total of 20 English top league titles, while Liverpool has won 18 times. (I was wrong to say that Manchester United only beat Liverpool once, it should be twice)
As long as they win this Premier League title, Liverpool will only be one behind their archrival Manchester United in the total number of English top league titles.
As long as Liverpool continues to be coached by Klopp and continues to have Willard as the core free agent, it will be easy to tie or even overtake Manchester United, which has lost Ferguson.
On April 25, in the 34th round of the Premier League, Liverpool faced Crystal Palace at home. The game time is 16:30 in the afternoon, but since the morning, Liverpool fans have been coming from all directions, filling the Anfield stadium with water.
There are even die-hard overseas fans of the Red Army who flew all the way to England just to witness the historic moment when Liverpool won the first Premier League championship in team history.
And this originally ordinary Premier League game also attracted fans that far exceeded the capacity of Anfield Stadium, and the scalpers naturally made a lot of money.
Even so, there are still many fans who cannot buy tickets with the ball. In the end, they can only watch the live TV broadcast through the live TV broadcasts in the bars around the stadium, or the electronic live broadcast screen in the square outside the stadium.
In the stadium, before the game started, Klopp was also giving everyone his final mobilization:
"You all know what this game means."
"Although we can win the championship as long as we draw."
"But will you?"
"Are you willing to end in a draw at Anfield, at your home ground, in the historic moment of winning the first Premier League title in your team's history?"
The team members responded enthusiastically: "No!"
Klopp nodded and said: "Yes, I don't want to either. Therefore, we will attack with all our main players in this game and must win the game. If we are not leading by more than three goals, we are not allowed to relax our vigilance. We not only have to win , and we have to win big, with a hearty victory, so that we can win the first Premier League championship in our team history without any doubt."
"Let's talk, okay?"
Willard and others shouted in unison: "Okay!"
Then, the coach and substitute players left the locker room and went to sit on the bench. Villard and other starting 11 players came to the player tunnel under the leadership of captain Henderson, waiting to play.
When the players from both sides came out, amidst the tsunami of applause from tens of thousands of Red Army fans in Anfield, every time the stadium announcer read out the name of a Red Army player, he received unanimous applause and encouragement from the entire Liverpool fans.
Especially when Alan Willard's name was read out, the applause, cheers and screams were the loudest. Everyone knows who is most responsible for the vibrant Liverpool today.
Liverpool this season is really a giant. They have won the English League Cup and will soon win the Premier League. They have reached the final of the FA Cup and the semi-finals of the Champions League, and their opponents are not strong enough. Strong, advancing to the finals is a high probability event.
The progress of all fronts makes people have unlimited expectations. If it really wins the fourth tier, Liverpool will create an unprecedented honor in football history to win four crowns in a single season.
One more crown than those triple crown winning teams.
And the biggest credit for this goes to Willard, so Willard received the biggest welcome, screams and applause at Anfield.
The Premier League has also brought the championship trophy to the scene. As long as Liverpool wins the championship, an award ceremony will be held on site, allowing Liverpool to be crowned the Premier League champion four rounds in advance.
At 16:30 in the afternoon, with the referee's whistle, the 34th round of the 2016/2017 Premier League match between Liverpool and Crystal Palace officially began.
Crystal Palace is currently ranked 15th in the league, not far from the relegation zone, and does not want to be a stepping stone for Liverpool to win the championship. Therefore, after the game started, they took the initiative to attack Liverpool. They wanted to defeat Liverpool, and on the one hand, they would not let Liverpool step on their corpses to win the championship. , on the other hand, it is also to gain points and avoid relegation.
If they fail, it is normal. They are facing the powerful Liverpool away from home. And if they win or draw, they make money.
In short, try it no matter what.
Of course, the one with the most motivation is Crystal Palace forward Benteke. He was originally Liverpool's striker, but was abandoned by Klopp and had to transfer to Crystal Palace.
Now seeing that his former club and teammates are about to win the first Premier League championship in team history, Benteke is envious and jealous. This game really broke out with good offensive power. Through two consecutive headers, respectively, Benteke He scored twice in the 42nd minute of the first half and the 74th minute of the second half, helping Crystal Palace break through Liverpool twice.
This kind of performance can be called a godsend. Even Messi, Neymar and others failed to score Liverpool's goal twice at Anfield, but Benteke did it. It cannot but be said that his performance in this game was perfect.
However, Liverpool is even more determined to win this game. With the Champions League, FA Cup, etc. going smoothly, Liverpool has sufficient troops and all the main players to play in this game.
In addition, Crystal Palace intends to engage in an offensive battle to see if it can defeat Liverpool. The emptiness of the defense in the backcourt is evident, and Liverpool will beat them every time.
In the end, Liverpool defeated Crystal Palace 5-2 through Willard's hat-trick, Coutinho's icing on the cake, and Mane's goal in the 78th minute, winning the 34th round of the league.
When the referee Andre Marriner blew the whistle for the end of the game, the entire Anfield stadium, the square outside the stadium, the bar, and the entire city of Liverpool were in a boil.
"competition is over."
"Liverpool beat Crystal Palace 5-2 and won this game."
"Although Chelsea's game has not yet started, Liverpool has already accumulated 96 points with a record of 32 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses, leading Chelsea, the second place in the standings, by 18 points."
"Even if this round is added, Chelsea only has 5 rounds left, and it is impossible to catch up with Liverpool's points in any case."
"Therefore, Liverpool won the 2016/2017 English Premier League championship four rounds ahead of schedule with four rounds left in the league."
"Congratulations to Liverpool, congratulations to Klopp, and congratulations to Willard. They won the first Premier League title since the reorganization of the Premier League in 1992/1993."
"At the same time, this is also the 19th English top league championship in their team history, and they are only one away from the 20 top league championships of their arch-rival Manchester United."
"As long as Liverpool continues to play like this and Klopp and Willard don't leave, it will be easy for Liverpool to equal or even overtake Manchester United's total number of top league titles."
"Now, let us congratulate Liverpool with the warmest applause."
"Liverpool are finally Premier League champions."
After the warm celebration lasted for almost half an hour, the podium was set up. Amid the warm applause and cheers of the Red Army fans, captain Henderson won the 2016/2017 Premier League championship trophy on behalf of Liverpool.
Velarde also received a championship reward of 100 million experience points. Unfortunately, this reward is a drop in the bucket compared to the rewards that Velarde currently needs to upgrade. The only reward is 1 billion for the Champions League champion, which is barely enough.
Of course, what Willard is looking forward to most are the awards of the World Cup, Ballon d'Or, World Player of the Year, and Lawrence Award.
For the huge amount of experience required for Willard to upgrade now, only the experience gained from these awards can help him upgrade quickly.
But obviously, these awards can no longer be obtained quickly, and we can only wait for time and opportunity.
Anyway, now that Liverpool has won the Premier League championship, everyone just needs to celebrate.
The joy of winning the first Premier League championship in team history made head coach Klopp extremely emotional. Although there are generally rules against drinking in football, who cares about it at this festive moment?
Even Klopp drank champagne from the trophy, let alone other players.
After celebrating in the stadium for a full two hours, everyone didn't eat dinner, put on their championship jerseys, got on the team's double-decker bus, and started a parade around the city of Liverpool.
The first Premier League championship in team history certainly deserves such treatment.
Many fans who were unable to enter the stadium due to capacity and ticket issues at Anfield can finally watch the team's first Premier League championship trophy up close and celebrate the first Premier League championship in team history with the team, players and coaches. .
The Liverpool bus paraded through the city for several hours before everyone returned to the hotel for a celebration banquet and dinner.
Fans on the street outside were still holding various banners and trophy models, continuing to parade and celebrate, venting their joy of winning the first Premier League championship in team history.
