After the Champions League semi-final draw ceremony, the next day, April 14, the 34th round of the Premier League, Liverpool faced Bournemouth at home.
Naturally, this opponent will not cause any interference to Liverpool's victory. A clean 5-0 allowed Liverpool to continue its winning streak.
If Klopp hadn't made substitutions in the second half to save the physical strength of the main players, the Red Army might have made the score even bigger.
After this game, Liverpool's points have reached a terrifying 99 points, and they are about to break 100 points.
Except for losing to Manchester City in the first half of the season, Liverpool has won all other leagues.
It is a pity that Manchester City also won this round. Liverpool is still only 9 points ahead of Manchester City. With 4 rounds left in the league, it is not possible to talk about winning the championship in advance.
Have to continue.
Five days later, on April 19, in the 35th round of the Premier League, Liverpool challenged West Bromwich Albion away. As long as Liverpool wins this game, with a super high goal difference advantage, Liverpool will basically be successful in defending the Premier League championship.
West Bromwich Albion are currently ranked last, but if they win the last few rounds, there is still a theoretical hope of relegation. Therefore, West Bromwich Albion will fight hard at home in this game and use counterattacks. Scored a goal.
Unfortunately, the huge gap in strength made their struggles in vain. Although Liverpool rotated some of their main players in order to prepare for the next FA Cup semi-final game, Willard, who started the game, still made West Bromwich Albion feel quite desperate.
After 90 minutes, the score on the big screen in the stadium was 1-4. Liverpool defeated the home team in the away game, taking all three points and reaching 102 points.
Although Manchester City tried their best in this round and defeated their opponents with a score of 5-0, they still could not prevent Liverpool from winning the championship.
With only 3 rounds left in the league, Liverpool leads Manchester City by 9 points and has a huge goal difference of more than 30 goals. In the last three rounds, unless Liverpool loses all and Manchester City wins, and Manchester City has to recover 30 There is a goal difference disadvantage for multiple goals. A draw requires a goal difference of more than 10 goals in each game.
This is basically impossible. Although this probability still exists in theory, in fact everyone knows that it is impossible to happen.
Therefore, although it has not been officially announced, Liverpool has actually won the Premier League championship in the 2017/2018 season after winning this game.
I just have to wait for the next game where Liverpool can win the award as long as they draw, and it will be at home then, which is just right.
Of course, compared to the Liverpool players and fans who were overjoyed to win the championship, the West Bromwich Albion players and fans seemed quite lonely.
Because, after losing this game, they no longer even had the theoretical possibility of relegation, becoming the first Premier League team to be relegated in the 2017/2018 season.
This caused Liverpool players and fans to be too embarrassed to be too presumptuous at other people's home stadiums, adding salt to other people's wounds, and simply celebrated and then withdrew.
If we really want to celebrate, we can wait until the next league game to remain unbeaten at home and truly win the Premier League championship trophy.
Three days later, on April 22, the 2017/2018 FA Cup semi-final between Chelsea and Liverpool officially started at Stamford Bridge.
There was a shower before the game. Although the game had stopped, the slippery field still caused a lot of interference to the ground attack of both sides, causing both sides to make many mistakes.
After Mourinho left, Chelsea's performance has not improved. The FA Cup is a way to win the championship, and there is only one semi-final, not two legs. As long as they can beat Liverpool and advance to the final, the probability of winning the championship is high.
Therefore, Chelsea played very tenaciously in this game. Hazard, Giroud, Kante, Fabregas, Cahill, Morata, etc. all performed well. They penetrated Liverpool's goal twice and did not let Liverpool Scored too many goals in open play.
Only Willard scored a heavy artillery goal with a speed of over 100 per hour in a mobile battle through long-range shooting.
But in the defense of set pieces, Chelsea was completely defeated. Liverpool not only caused defender Cesar Azpilicueta to foul through Salah's deft dribbling in the penalty area, but also helped Liverpool win a penalty kick which was scored by Willard.
In addition, Willard also scored two direct free kicks outside the penalty area.
In the end, Liverpool defeated the Blues Chelsea 4-2 in an away game and advanced to the FA Cup final with the help of Willard's three set pieces and a long-range shot.
In the other semi-final, Manchester United defeated Tottenham and advanced to the final. Therefore, this season's FA Cup final will feature Manchester United VS Liverpool.
However, with the current strength comparison and recent record between the two sides, it is still difficult for Manchester United to win the championship against Liverpool.
Liverpool is once again on its way to winning four trophies this season.
Becoming the first team in Europe, or even the world, to win the Triple Crown (FA Cup, Premier League, Champions League) for two consecutive seasons is just around the corner.
Three days later, on April 25, in the first leg of the Champions League semi-finals, Liverpool faced Roma at home.
Although Roma reversed Barcelona quite amazingly in the quarter-finals, created a miracle and advanced to the final, no one believed that they could get past Liverpool.
Willard's mere presence is enough to put people off.
This is also true. Only 6 minutes into the game, Velardi dribbled the ball from the right side of the midfield to attract the attention of the Roma defense. He suddenly made a long pass and lobbed the ball to the left rib of the penalty area.
Firmino appeared behind defender Fazio like a ghost, made a diving dive and headed the ball into the right corner of the goal.
Goalkeeper Alisson misjudged the direction and pounced towards the left corner. As a result, he could only watch in despair as the ball hit the net.
This talented goalkeeper, who only moved to Roma from Internacional Brasil and landed in Europe two years ago, has already made a name for himself and attracted the attention of many wealthy clubs, including Liverpool. He was scored in the first 6 minutes.
I have to say that this is a frustrating goal. He also wants to impress Liverpool with his amazing performance and move to the Red Army!
However, even more despair is yet to come.
Although Liverpool's recent schedule is very tight, the presence of Willard makes Liverpool almost equivalent to one or two more people fighting. Moreover, all fronts are progressing smoothly, and there is no scene that requires fighting. As long as the victory is secured, Klopp can let the main players take a rest.
This has resulted in Liverpool's main lineup having almost no injuries recently, and their physical fitness is still intact. Roma's run into the Champions League semifinals has actually exhausted their physical fitness, energy, and luck.
Next, Alisson felt an even more desperate scene. Liverpool bombed wildly and scored 6 goals around the 70th minute of the second half, while Roma had not scored a goal.
Before the first round was over, the suspense of the semifinals was almost over.
Klopp also began to make substitutions. After all, the three-day schedule is still quite tight.
Roma finally took advantage of Liverpool's slack spirit at the end of the game and saved a little face by counterattacking and scoring a goal by Dzeko.
But the total score of 6-1 still declared that Roma had basically bid farewell to the finals ahead of schedule.
It is very difficult for Liverpool to replicate the feat of reversing Barcelona in the quarter-finals with Willard.
Therefore, after the game, the Red Army fans at home had a celebratory interaction with Willard and other players, which was considered an early celebration of Liverpool's entry into the Champions League final.
Of course, the real championship celebration comes in the next game.
On April 28, in the 36th round of the Premier League, Liverpool faced Stoke City at home. In this game, as long as Liverpool ties and gets 1 point, no matter how Manchester City's game goes, Liverpool will be sure to win the championship two rounds in advance.
In order to achieve this goal, even though all the main players started against Roma in the last round and the next game will be an away game against Roma, Klopp still sent out most of the main players to ensure that he won the game and ended the suspense of the league championship early. .
Although Stoke City is currently ranked second from last and is still fighting for relegation, this game was also very hard, but the huge strength gap and Liverpool's belief that they must win prevented them from scoring a single goal at Anfield Stadium.
Liverpool, on the other hand, took a two-goal lead in the first half. When only a tie was needed to win the championship, Klopp made three substitutions in a row in the second half, allowing the main players to take a rest.
Of course, there was no Willard among them.
Willard is an insurance policy.
Sure enough, after seeing Liverpool take a substitution break, Stoke City counterattacked in the second half. However, Willard spared no effort in physical strength, ran wildly throughout the field, and omnipresent retracement defense, so that most of Stoke City's attacks were stifled. In the cradle.
Even if there was an occasional attack, it was not a big threat and was easily confiscated by goalkeeper Karius.
In the end, Willard scored another goal in the second half, leading Liverpool to a 3-0 victory over the relegation team Stoke City, winning the 36th round of the league, with a terrifying record of 35 wins, 0 draws, and 1 loss in 36 games, with a total of 105 points. , won the 2017/2018 Premier League championship two rounds ahead of schedule.
In addition, Willard's total goals in the Premier League this season have also reached 101, breaking the 100-goal mark.
Previously, the total annual goals exceeded the 100-goal mark, but this is just a single season in the league, breaking the 100-goal mark, which is really shocking.
This is an unattainable record.
After more than 20 minutes of carnival with the fans, the podium was set up. Henderson won the 2017/2018 Premier League championship on behalf of Liverpool, and Willard also successfully received the championship experience reward. However, the rewards for the best and top scorer in the tournament will not be given out until after the last round of the league. Of course, for Velarde, who now needs 30 billion to upgrade, these experiences are no longer important. We can only see how much experience he had in the World Cup.
Liverpool successfully defended the Premier League title, and with the EFL Cup victory over Arsenal in February, Liverpool has completed a double crown in domestic competitions in the 2017/2018 season.
With one more FA Cup and one Champions League, we can defend the four crowns won last season and create an unprecedented Red Army dynasty that has never been achieved.
