After two rounds, Manchester United, Liverpool, Hurstfield, and West Bromwich Albion became the only four remaining teams to maintain unbeatable victories in the first two rounds. Among them, Manchester United defeated their opponents 4-0 in two consecutive games and won by 8 goals. Ranked first in the standings with a huge goal difference, Liverpool ranked second.
But everyone knows that the league is a long-term process of hard work and persistence. Therefore, Manchester United's current ranking is not equal to the championship. Whether it can be stable in the later period and whether it can withstand Liverpool's pursuit is still a big question mark.
West Bromwich Albion's two consecutive victories can be regarded as a small upset, but compared with the newly promoted Hussfield, who ranked fifth in the British Championship last season, they are only insignificant.
As a newly-promoted team, they were unwilling to avoid relegation and became the only four remaining teams with two consecutive victories, ranking third in the standings. It was a shock.
Moreover, what Harshfield defeated in the second round was not an unknown team, but Newcastle United, a traditional strong team. This newly promoted team's performance in the Premier League in the new season can be described as extremely impressive.
There are no weak teams in the Premier League, and they live up to their reputation.
The strength of the Premier League was also reflected in the 2017/2018 Champions League group stage draw on August 24. This time, not only the top four teams in the Premier League participated in the group stage draw, but also the fifth team, Manchester United, directly received a place in the Champions League group stage through the Europa League champion.
In this way, the Premier League has five teams: Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham, Manchester City, and Manchester United participating in this year's Champions League. Only Arsenal is sadly ranked fifth in the Premier League and can only play in the Europa League and cannot play in the Champions League. .
There is no doubt that this is the glory and prosperity of the Premier League, and the Premier League media and fans are very excited. Especially as Liverpool is the defending champion, although Coutinho has left this season, the addition of Van Dijk and Salah is enough to make up for the loss of Coutinho's departure.
As long as Willard is still there, Liverpool's competitiveness will not change much. The odds offered by the betting company also explain everything. Liverpool is the favorite to win the Champions League this season.
In the group stage draw ceremony, Liverpool was also very lucky, being drawn together with La Liga's Sevilla, Russia's Spartak Moscow, and Slovenia's Maribor. This group stage allocation is quite friendly to Liverpool. Let alone qualifying, being first in the group is an easy matter.
Sevilla and Spartak Moscow can only compete for second place in the group. As for Maribor, they are obviously giving away points.
Among the other Premier League teams, Manchester United and Manchester City both received good draws, while Chelsea and Tottenham were unlucky. Chelsea was drawn in a group with Atletico Madrid and Roma, while Tottenham was drawn in a group with Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund. , it’s a bit difficult to qualify!
But these are none of Liverpool's business. Anyway, as long as it's not difficult for them to qualify, the harder the opponent, the better. It's best to let them fight to the death in the group stage first, so that Liverpool can win in the knockout rounds.
Two days later, on August 27, in the third round of the Premier League, Liverpool sat at home and ushered in a strong dialogue with Arsenal.
Arsenal, known as the top four contender, only ranked fifth in the league last season and did not win the Champions League. This not only affected the team's income this season, but also affected the prestige of head coach Arsene Wenger.
Although Arsenal got off to a good start by narrowly defeating Leicester City 4-3 in the opening game of the Premier League, they lost to the little-known Stoke City away from home in the second round. There was a lot of criticism on the Internet, all because of Wenger. The sound of get out of class ending.
This is tantamount to a major blow to Wenger, who is known as the godfather of the Gunners. It not only affects his control of the team, but also indirectly affects the fighting spirit and performance of the entire Arsenal team.
In the first two games, Liverpool only defeated Watford and Crystal Palace with scores of 3-1 and 3-0 respectively. It stands to reason that Arsenal is far better than these two teams.
Even though they are facing Liverpool away from home, even if they lose, Arsenal should not lose too much.
The final score was unexpected. Arsenal lost 0-6 at Anfield. Although Van Dijk and Salah started together and performed well, and Willard scored four goals again, it is quite surprising that Arsenal lost so many goals.
When the game was coming to an end, many away Arsenal fans had already put up sporadic slogans in the stands, calling for Wenger to be dismissed.
As some Gunners fans expressed online, Wenger has been in charge of Arsenal for too long. Although he has made a great contribution to Arsenal, it now seems to have become a stumbling block for Arsenal's continued growth.
Those fans who hope that the Gunners can improve their performance, of course hope that Wenger, who can only compete for fourth place every year, will be dismissed and replaced by a coach who can lead them to compete for the championship.
But in fact, there is only one championship in a season. Is the championship so easy to fight for? If Wenger is dismissed from get out of class, can he really find a better coach than Wenger to lead Arsenal to compete for the long-lost championship honor?
not necessarily.
But this has nothing to do with Liverpool. Being able to defeat Arsenal by a big score and obtain so much goal difference allowed Liverpool to finally surpass Manchester United's goal difference advantage, overtake the ranking, and occupy the top position in the Premier League standings. Manchester United ranked second with a goal difference.
As for Hurstfield and West Bromwich Albion, they failed to win this league round. Liverpool and Manchester United, the mortal enemies, have become the only two teams in the Premier League that have maintained three consecutive victories.
Of course, everyone is more optimistic about Liverpool. Although Manchester United is also a wealthy club, and Mourinho is still leading the team, it lacks a superstar who can lead the players to attack the city, unlike Liverpool who have Willard.
In the long-term competition in the league, it is estimated that Liverpool will still win the majority.
Of course, since it is a long-term competition, injuries, suspensions and other reasons must also be taken into consideration. If Liverpool suffers too many injuries in the later period, it is not impossible for Manchester United to overtake it.
Anyway, Liverpool themselves are very confident, because Liverpool has a physical monster like Willard, which can basically save a lot of physical energy of other teammates, reduce everyone's physical load, and also reduce Liverpool's potential injury risks in disguise.
This is a very cost-effective thing for Liverpool. Liverpool has made a lot of money from Willard's transfer deal.
After the third round of the Premier League, it is time to enter the FIFA match day. All the international football players have to return home to participate in the national team competition, and the same goes for Willard.
Although the Argentina national team has already qualified from the South American World Cup preliminaries, and Argentina has also recruited many new players on this round of national team match days, Velarde still insists on reporting to the national team. On the one hand, it is to gain experience, and on the other hand, it is also familiar with and The cooperation of the young players.
Next year's World Cup in Russia will be Willard's first World Cup trip. Moreover, Messi, who has won five Ballon d'Or awards and almost all personal honors, needs a World Cup to win the championship.
Both Velarde and all Argentinian players and fans are preparing for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
