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With a 4-1 victory over Arsenal, Liverpool are five points behind Chelsea in the standings.

While Liverpool was happy, Arsenal was not so happy. After they lost this game, they were getting farther and farther away from No.4.

The media gave Wenger a lot of excuses: Arsenal played really badly in this game.Ashley Cole, Campbell, Bergkamp, ​​and Van Persie have a series of injuries, so it's no wonder they will be bloodbathed by Liverpool.But who is to blame for such a thing?Everyone knows that young people have poor stability. Wenger trusts them, so naturally he has to pay the price.Obviously, Wenger has already made such preparations, but this season, Arsenal, due to injuries and youth, paid a heavy price. The places are almost gone.I just don't know if Arsenal can survive it.

After playing this game, the devil's schedule of the Liverpool players can be regarded as the end of a game.The next game is to compete with Manchester United in the FA Cup.

At this time, the fourth round of make-up matches was also completed: Chelsea and Everton played another boring battle. After 120 minutes, the score of 0-0 remained unchanged. Everton eliminated Chelsea with a penalty kick. [

This result also made Arsenal and Chelsea two out of the FA Cup.Therefore, the match between Manchester United and Liverpool is also considered to be a match between the two teams most likely to win the championship.Although it was just the fifth round, the importance of this match was no less than that of the final.

And this game is basically the same as the previous games. In this game, it is Manchester United rather than Liverpool that is more supported by everyone.

The last FA Cup match between Liverpool and Manchester United was in 99. In that game, Liverpool scored a goal in the opening 3 minutes. Until the 88th minute, they still led 1-0. Then, Manchester United relied on Cole equalized with a goal in the 88th minute, and then, No. 90 minutes, Solskjaer scored the lore-sound familiar?That's right, it was simply a preview version of the 99 Champions League final.

The next match between the two teams was the 96 FA Cup final.That game was also recognized as the dividing line between Liverpool's complete decline and Manchester United's complete rise. Since then, although Liverpool still has an unshakable position in English football, it has gradually declined.Manchester United completely replaced Liverpool and became the hottest team in England.

Going forward, Manchester United wins, going forward, Manchester United wins, going forward, Manchester United wins.

And when was the last time Liverpool won? In 1921, Liverpool defeated Manchester United once. Since then, for 85 years, Liverpool has never defeated Manchester United in the FA Cup.

It is precisely because of this that the statement in the newspaper even directly exaggerated the description-the last time Liverpool beat Manchester United, Hitler had not yet come to power.

And this is exactly what makes this game so attractive: the last time Liverpool won was when they and Manchester United were not on the rise. If you want to talk about the grievances and grievances between the two teams after their rise, you can still say it Some, but the last time Liverpool won was when neither was great, when both clubs were terrible, and after so many years of ups and downs between the two teams, a lot of things have changed , but this record has not been reversed.Now, whether Liverpool can reverse this situation is also very interesting.

This season, Manchester United has already been eliminated in the Champions League.In the league, they have a big gap with Liverpool and Chelsea, and it will be very difficult to catch up.But if this game is played well and wins the game, they may also win the double crown: Manchester United reached the League Cup final, and their opponents are still underdogs like Wigan.In the FA Cup, as long as they can surpass Liverpool, there will be no strong opponents behind. Manchester United won this game at this time, which means that they have a great chance of winning the championship.

But of course Liverpool will not let go of this champion easily.For Liverpool, the most important task this season is the league, but if there is a chance to win one more championship, no one will have an opinion.What's more, this is an opportunity to upgrade the champion to a double crown.Liverpool once accomplished such a feat in 1986, and after the Premier League era, Manchester United won three double crowns in the 90s, Arsenal won two double crowns in 98 and 2002, and now, in the history of their clubs, both With three double crowns, surpassing Liverpool's achievements, this also makes Liverpool hope to surpass them again.

Moreover, Liverpool was just "drawn" by Manchester United a few days ago, and now it can be said that there are new and old hatreds for Manchester United. When they meet at this time, they naturally hope to have a good game with Manchester United, which can be regarded as It's revenge.

And in this game, Zhao Yaning also specially equipped his Sleeping Beauty card-in fact, he wanted to use it when he played against Chelsea in the league, but he only noticed it at that time, Sleeping Beauty Cards can only be used in cup matches, not league matches.Now, though, the match was a cup match anyway, and he could use the cards.Although he himself knew that the bigger reason for doing this was anger, but he still wanted to do it.

In this game, Reina still did not recover, and Dudek once again appeared in the main lineup.At the back line, Liverpool sent Dudek, Riise, Vidic, Carragher, and Maicon. In the midfield, Liverpool still has Alonso and Sissoko in the back line. The avant-garde In terms of positions, Zhao Yaning, Gerrard, Figo, and center forward, Liverpool rarely sent Morientes as a tough starter.

Zhao Yaning understands the reason for this: First, Fletcher is the only one available for Manchester United’s midfielder. Kompany was injured just a few days after he arrived, and he has entered the ranks of recuperating gloriously. O’Shea This game was suspended. Under Ferguson, he could only pull out the diamond-shaped midfielder, let Fletcher delay, let Giggs play the midfielder, and Richardson pulled the frontcourt to play on the side. The approach is also to allow them to recover in time to help defend.

Secondly, Manchester United's defense suffered another injury.Ferdinandra injured his thigh. In this game, Manchester United's back line is Evra, Sylvester, Lucio and Gary Neville.

The arrival of Lucio is a good thing for Manchester United, but Sylvester is a nightmare.The most important thing is that without Ferdinand, Manchester United's high-ball defense has become a big problem. Sending Morientes can take advantage of the air advantage to a large extent.

On the front line of Manchester United, it is very unexpected that Rooney and Saha are arranged to start, and Ruud van Nistelrooy is sitting on the bench.

After the last game, Zhao Yaning thought that Manchester United would re-use Ruud van Nistelrooy in such a game, but who knows, they are still using Saha. This courage is indeed great.

After 10 minutes of the opening, Manchester United basically lost all their midfield advantage. Although they still have the ability to keep their defense, but on the offensive end, they have nothing to do. [

However, Liverpool's several attacks encountered a lot of trouble when they encountered Lucio.Zhao Yaning was also a little surprised. It turned out that Lucio, who was serious, was so difficult to deal with.

Zhao Yaning dribbled the ball in the middle. Instead of directly attacking the defense, he took a step to the left, trying to rely on his own breakthrough to connect his teammates, and at the same time try to tear the opponent's defense.But in front of him, Lucio kept adjusting his position, keeping a close eye on his running direction, and followed him step by step.

This made Zhao Yaning a little surprised. Although it is true that he is not running at full speed, Lucio is just a defender after all, a central defender. He can completely keep up with Zhao Yaning in footsteps, which makes Zhao Yaning feel really surprised.

This also made him want to try. Instead of passing the ball to Gerrard as originally thought, he rushed the ball into the penalty area, then passed the ball to his left foot, and then passed it to his right foot. Turning around with his feet as the axis, he wanted to wipe off Lucio and enter the penalty area.

But Lucio was very good at blocking him at this time.His tall and burly body prevented Zhao Yaning from turning around successfully at the first time. He swung the ball back with his left foot, and then continued to turn around.

But Lucio has already caught up behind him, and with a clean tackle, almost sticking to his calf and stretching out from behind him, he tackled the ball to Van der Sar all at once.

This move is really bold enough.Tackle from behind like this in the penalty area... But Zhao Yaning thought about it and found that he really didn’t dare to flop. In such a game, the law enforcement must be strict. Will be messing around again.Although Lucio is bold, his judgment is still very accurate.

Although Lucio managed to steal the ball, Manchester United's midfielder failed to launch a decent fast break.Giggs did pass the ball, but Rooney did not have the slightest advantage when he was fighting for the top with Vidic, and Vidic directly pushed the ball to the feet of Alonso in the midfield.

Alonso also immediately passed the ball to Zhao Yaning who ran to the front of the penalty area to meet him.After Zhao Yaning received the ball, he feinted and tried to pass it to Morientes in the penalty area, but when Lucio blocked his passing line, he kicked the ball to Jie behind him. rad.

Gerrard slammed the goal and kicked the ball out.But Van der Sar jumped up, raised his hands and lifted the ball high over the bar.

"Nice attempt, Liverpool's attack is done quite well!"

No goal... Zhao Yaning was still a little dissatisfied with the situation.

But this kind of game also made him see a problem with the opponent: there seems to be something wrong with their defensive system.Although Lucio is very good, he has just entered the team after all. Although he has indeed improved Manchester United's defensive strength, but because he has not been able to truly integrate into the team, his positioning seems to have some problems...

Try set pieces, if they really don't have a good run-in...

Zhao Yaning kicked the corner kick, and the landing point of his corner kick was near the small penalty area.Lucio was marking Carragher there. He saw that the ball was a little bit off, so he ignored it.However, at this time, Morientes, who was inside the small penalty area, rushed out and sent the ball to Gerrard on the edge of the penalty area with a header.

Gerrard kicked again and blasted vigorously!

Van der Sar slapped the ball in front of the goal, but there was still a mess in the penalty area. As soon as the ball was released, there was a crowd in front of the goal, and this time, among the chaotic crowd, Figo grabbed the first point and kicked the ball to the far point!

"gooool!!!!!! Liverpool took the lead, Luis Figo's goal opened it up for Liverpool!"

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