Revive Liverpool

Chapter 314 Merseyside Duo

At the same time, their Premier League opponent Chelsea entered overtime after a draw with Paris Saint-Germain in the second round of the quarter-finals, and was eventually eliminated!
The other two Premier League teams that entered the knockout round, Manchester City and Arsenal, lost at home in the first round, and they also failed to achieve a comeback in the second round.

In this way, Liverpool became the only team in the Premier League to enter the next knockout round of the Champions League.

Subsequently, the draw for the quarter-finals of the Champions League began. Liverpool's opponent was Morocco, which was considered the easiest opponent.

Although Morocco may seem to be the weakest of the quarterfinals, Morocco's lineup is not weak at all.

Martial, Carrasco, Fabinho, Bernardo Silva, Kurzawa are just young players who will play for the giants in the future.

He played for a wealthy team before, but now he is a little older, and there are also many players who have come to Morocco.

In short, Morocco's strength is definitely not weak, so it is by no means an easy task for Liverpool to break through Morocco and enter the semi-finals of the Champions League.

Liverpool is currently the only team in the Premier League that remains in the Champions League. Manchester City, Chelsea, and Arsenal have all lost in the quarter-finals.

This made the English media very angry.

Especially in La Liga, there are three teams that have entered the final eight. In this comparison, it really seems that the Premier League is a bit weak.

In the Europa League, two of the three English teams that entered the Europa League were eliminated in the first knockout round.

Another English team that has entered the Europa League round of [-] is also Everton from Merseyside.

In other words, the Merseyside duo has become the only fig leaf for English football.

And Spain also has a team that has entered the next game of the Europa League.

That is the "King of the Europa League" Sevilla, but now they have not achieved the achievement of three consecutive Europa League championships, so the "King of the Europa League" is out of the question.

However, they are still the winners of the Europa League last season.

So maybe Liverpool will have some convenience in the timing of domestic games in the future, so that Liverpool can perform better in the Champions League.

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In the 29th round of the Premier League, Liverpool challenged Swansea as a guest.

At home, it can be regarded as a small massacre of Liverpool in Basel. The consumption in the middle of the week is not too big, and now the away game against Swansea is still relatively easy.

In the 29th minute, Lallana passed the ball. Coutinho got rid of his right foot from the penalty area and hit Shaker.

Henderson has performed well in recent rounds of the league.

In the last few games, Gerrard has not started.

In the first few games of the new year, Gerrard started every time.

But now Gerrard can't do it.

Even though this is Gerrard's final half of the season, he has had to miss a few games due to injuries.

And Henderson also assumed the responsibility of the captain of these games.

Henderson not only performed well as the captain on the court, but also assumed the responsibility of a captain.

And his professional performance is also very good. In terms of participating in the offense, he has no shortage of assists and goals.

In terms of defense, his performance is also remarkable. The Liverpool defense formed by him and Kanter has also been very stable in the last few games.

Liverpool have gone several rounds without conceding a goal.

And Liverpool, who scored a goal, did not continue to attack, and began to stabilize their defense, striving to defend the victory of the game.

With Liverpool's increasingly stable defense, Swansea's offense failed to achieve results. Liverpool finally won the game and scored three points.

But Chelsea lost points in this round.

They drew [-]-[-] with Southampton at Stamford Bridge.

Obviously, the negative impact of the midweek Champions League is extended to Chelsea's weekend league.

Manchester City, which also has a Champions League game, was also upset by Burnley in the away game.

Liverpool and Arsenal were victorious.

Although Manchester City fell out of the first team in the Premier League championship early, and now they have suffered another defeat in the league, this obviously makes the league championship between Liverpool and Chelsea more comfortable, and there is no need to worry about being reaped.

Moreover, Chelsea's failure in this round turned Liverpool's lead of only one point into three points.

Of course, this is calculated under the condition that Chelsea can win in the next make-up match.

If Chelsea fail to secure that make-up win, Liverpool's lead will be seven points.

And Arsenal?Now Arsenal are still working hard for the Champions League.

This season, Arsenal, which did not make efforts in the early stage, did not start to make efforts until the middle of the season.

And now they have come from the middle of the standings to No.6 in the league, and have entered the door of the Europa League.

And it was Manchester United and Southampton who stood in front of them and prevented them from entering the Champions League.

This season's Manchester United also did not perform well at the beginning of the season, but now they have recovered and their record has improved.

They recovered much earlier than Arsenal, so they now have much more league points than Arsenal.

The other team, Southampton, is the opposite of Manchester United and Arsenal.

This season Southampton is following the path Arsenal took last season.

The perfect performance at the beginning of the season was impressive, but as the season progressed, they began to stretch.

Now that it has reached the position of the Europa League, the media have increasingly disapproved of Southampton as their recent record has begun to change.

The media generally believe that Southampton may fall out of the Europa League in the near future.

However, Southampton's recent performance has also attracted many football experts, and they began to analyze why Southampton has such a performance this season.

Why were they able to occupy the second place in the league at the beginning of the season, and why are they not able to do so now?
You must know that during the winter transfer period, in order to ensure the team's record, they did not choose to transfer. Instead, they introduced some players as substitutes to deepen the thickness of the bench.

So what is the reason for Southampton's recent poor record?

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In the 30th round of the Premier League, Liverpool and Manchester United will stage a double red meeting at Anfield.

Manchester United beat Liverpool [-]-[-] in their first double of the season at Old Trafford.

Now at Anfield, Liverpool certainly cannot easily let Manchester United's players leave.

(End of this chapter)