Chapter 480: .480 The Eve of the Devil's Schedule

Stepping into December, Liverpool also felt the arrival of winter. The players wore warm hats during training, long sleeves and gloves during the game, but the cold weather did not give Liverpool's fiery state. Cool down.
In the 15th round of the league, the Reds played at home against Southampton. The latter has been able to produce good rookies all year round. In the past ten years, from Gareth Bale, to Walcott, Chamberlain, and now Lallana , Luke Shaw, Chambers, Southampton's hematopoietic ability can be regarded as outstanding among the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League team.
However, such a team often can't keep good seed. The players who left the team before have just been poached by other teams in the Premier League. It really can't talk about how brilliant they are in Southampton.
Fortunately, Southampton's pursuit is not high, and it is enough to survive in the Premier League.
Gareth Bale did not have the opportunity to play against his old club in two consecutive games. He is not expected to recover until January next year. Situ Yunbing simply let him go home and spend Christmas with his family.
In this way, in the home game against Southampton, Situ Yunbing's starting lineup is really very young.
Goalkeeper: Ter Stegen.
Defenders: Flanagan, Scotter, Benatia, Robertson.
Midfielder: Eriksson, Gerrard, Casemiro.
Forwards: Mahrez, Suarez, Coutinho.
This starting lineup improved midfield control, but reduced the speed impact of the striker. Situ Yunbing reserved Sterling as a backhand for preparation.
The overall average age of the Southampton lineup is not too big, so the two teams fight on the field, it looks more like a confrontation of young forces!
Mahrez, Coutinho, Gerrard, and Eriksson have greatly improved their control in the midfield. As a result, Liverpool’s offensive scenes are often able to make full use of the width of the field and accurately center. The short-distance pass is fast and smooth, and the rapid offensive transfer is matched by the team's rapid pursuit and interception and crazy counter-grabs initiated by the striker during defense.
Suarez alone can upset the Southampton defense, coupled with Coutinho and Mahrez's cut, Eriksson and Gerrard's frequent advances.
Liverpool's offensive effect in the front field showed a different kind of gorgeous in this game!
Suarez kicked the evolution ball hat-trick in the first half of the game, and he danced with excitement and frequently made celebratory movements of shooting with both hands.
Eriksson also scored his first goal since returning from injury.
The task of Liverpool’s defense today is not that important, but Flanagan and Robertson’s defenses are still flawed. The impact of the Premier League team is the skill of housekeeping. In addition, Southampton has always liked to cultivate speed madness, Liverpool’s defense It's not airtight. When Rich Lambert scored twice in the evolution of the ball at Anfield, Situ Yunbing was not satisfied with his defensive performance!
In the end, Liverpool won Southampton 4:2 at home. Even though he was not satisfied with the defense in his heart, Situ Yunbing remained silent about the two goals after the game.
Can he vent his dissatisfaction with two full-backs who are under 20 years old?
If an 18-year-old offensive player performs badly, he will say it directly, because offensive players often perform badly and it is not a technical problem, but defensive players perform badly. Even if the technique is not problematic, there are still inexperienced injuries. This is not the case. It can be improved if you just use your mouth to beat the players. You can only take a step to see how the players are growing. If you don't meet expectations, you can only give up. Teams all over the world do this.
The club never hangs on a tree when it comes to players.
In a week of double matches, Manchester City failed to win this round. They were tied by Everton at home. Manchester United defeated Reading 4:3 away under the leadership of Ferguson. They overtook Manchester City to second place in the standings. !
Not only did Chelsea fail to get out of the invincible circle, but even lost to West Ham 1:3 away in this round!
In this way, Chelsea really withdrew from the championship, and Rogers dismissed get out of class directly!
Benitez's appointment as firefighting coach sparked protests among the Blues fans!
Obviously, the fans of the Blues Chelsea are very disgusted with Benitez, who once served as the Liverpool coach. Liverpool led by Benitez has twice blocked Chelsea from the Champions League final!
Liverpool, 40 points.
Manchester United, 33 points.
Manchester City, 32 points.
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In the middle of the week, Situ Yunbing led his team to Italy to challenge Naples, the final round of the Europa League group stage.
Because they have already led the team to advance to the knockout rounds, Liverpool dispatched a substitute lineup in the final round of the group stage.
Sterling and Vardy worked very hard and active in the game. Even if Udinese had the advantage in the game, Liverpool still created a lot of trouble for Udinese through limited counter-attack opportunities, but the recent defensive performance was a bit poor. , Liverpool only then drew with Udinese 2:2 away.
At the end of the group stage, Liverpool's record of 4 wins and 1 tie ranked first in the knockout rounds.
The meaning of this group's top name is different from the meaning of the group's top name in the UEFA Champions League group stage, which can avoid other groups' top names in the knockout draw.
However, because the Europa League still has the third place eliminated in the UEFA Champions League group stage to join, a total of 32 teams are drawn to fight each other!
Situ Yunbing believes that Liverpool’s Europa League this season this season is not a burden, but a good training stage, which allows him to better adopt personnel rotation on the Premier League battlefield, especially when the team suffers injuries. Next, those players who have grown up through cup games can be trusted at any time.
Before Liverpool went to London to challenge West Ham United for the Hammers on the weekend, Situ Yunbing was asked by reporters at a press conference how Benitez felt about taking over Chelsea. He bluntly said: "Thanks to Benitez for bringing Liverpool to Liverpool. I've been to the Champions League, that's all, I wish him luck at Chelsea."
He doesn't want to comment too much on the former coach, and he is also very sensitive. After all, the only glory for Liverpool in the past two decades is the Champions League title brought by Benitez.
If he criticizes Benitez, some Liverpool fans are bound to be dissatisfied. Now Benitez is in an unthankful situation on both sides. Although the Red Army fans have lost confidence in Benitez, they don’t want to see him. Coaching Chelsea for the Blues is like a couple who want each other to disappear forever after a breakup, rather than seeing each other make new love.
Chelsea fans have no support for Benitez. Whether Benitez can continue to work at Chelsea seems to be an extremely difficult challenge.
Leading the team to East London to challenge West Ham United, Situ Yunbing was confident of winning the game.
But less than 15 minutes into the game, Casemiro was sent off with a red card for a shovel foul in defense of Joe Cole!
No matter how Situ Yunbing protested on the sidelines, the referee was indifferent.
Casemiro lowered his head to leave the field, Liverpool played one less, and Situ Yunbing could only withdraw Mahrez to Lucas to ensure the integrity of the defensive system.
Then the game became a bit difficult. The Hammers helped West Ham United have a good momentum recently. They cleanly won Chelsea 3:1 in the last game.
Although Liverpool relied on Coutinho, Gerrard and Suarez's wonderful triangle pass in the counterattack, Suarez completed the goal first.
However, in the second half of the game, he still failed to hold his lead. Carol defeated Scotter with a header in the penalty area to kill the owner!
Upon seeing this, Situ Yunbing had to mobilize troops to further strengthen the defense in the future. It is very difficult to score 3 points. The problem on the defense line is estimated to be completely resolved at the beginning of next year. At this stage, only the return of Glen Johnson, Enri Ke will be able to start the next game.
In the end, Liverpool drew 1:1 with West Ham in the away game.
After the game, Situ Yunbing expressed strong dissatisfaction with the referee team.
"Casemiro committed a foul, but should he be sent off with a red card? I reserve my opinion, I only know that the red card was taken out and ruined the game!"
For this reason, the FA issued a fine of 30,000 pounds to Situ Yunbing and warned him to be careful!
The focus of this round is the rival derby in Manchester, 30 kilometers east of Liverpool!
Although Ferguson's Manchester United have problems of one kind or another, they are just like a rainbow!
The Red Devils defeated Blue Moon Manchester City 3:2 away and further secured their second place in the league. At the same time, because Liverpool lost points in this round, Manchester United shortened the gap with the top spot!
Liverpool, 41 points.
Manchester United, 36 points.
Manchester City, 32 points.
Fleet Street is relatively optimistic, and at the same time, it is also for fear that the whole world will think that Liverpool has begun to vent its strength!
Once it fails to withstand the test of the Christmas Devil schedule, then Liverpool's advantages established at the beginning of the season will be wiped out by the Red Devils!
He is more experienced in reversing Ferguson. This is an indisputable fact, but Situ Yunbing has no black history of losing the chain!
There are two more games in the Premier League that will enter the Christmas Devil schedule.
Before that, Situ Yunbing will lead the Red Army to the semi-finals of the League Cup first!
In the League Cup quarter-finals, Liverpool played at home against Middlesbrough.
In order to win this game, Situ Yunbing dispatched the main players as much as possible in the lineup. Except for Gerrard and Suarez, the other main players all appeared on the stage.
Vardy did not perform very well as the Arrows. Before that, he mostly played defensive counterattacks. He had enough space for him to play. However, his characteristics and abilities were difficult to display in the tough battle. .
Fortunately, Liverpool does not rely solely on the center to score goals.
Eriksson and Sterling each made a contribution to help Liverpool win the match at home 2:1 without risk and advance to the semi-finals of the League Cup!