Coach, I want to play football!

This sudden heavy snow also announced the arrival of Christmas. After the game against Swansea City, it was already mid-December.

The other four major leagues will start to enter the winter break after one or two more rounds, but the Premier League is different. The next Premier League will start the busiest schedule of each season.

Christmas war!

The Christmas war is not one or two games, but a cyclical time point.

For Premier League teams, the Christmas game begins in mid-December every year. It is not the two games before and after the holiday in the traditional sense.

The entire Christmas War will last until early January of the next year, a total of nearly twenty days. Most teams will play six to seven games in these twenty days, and there must be one game every three days on average.

The good news for Liverpool is that Sturridge is back before Christmas.

Although Ye Qi is still in good physical condition, with Sturridge, at least the Christmas game will not be so stretched.

In the 16th round of the Premier League, this game was originally planned for Liverpool to visit the Moore Stadium on Wednesday to face the newly promoted Premier League club Burnley.

As a result, it snowed heavily in Burnley, causing the game to be postponed for a day.

Interestingly, Burnley manager Sean Dyche was being interviewed at his pre-match press conference when his phone rang.

It was his wife who called and asked why he didn't come home...

This was a bit embarrassing. Sean Dyche's wife didn't know about the postponement of the game. She thought the game had ended long ago.

Sean Dyche patiently explained on the phone that the game had been postponed for a day due to heavy snow, so... he was holding a press conference at the moment.

Upon hearing this, his wife apologized and quickly hung up the phone.

Sean Dyche shrugged into the camera, while reporters smiled kindly.

Then Sean Dyche uttered the famous line: "Happywife, happylife."

Burnley has perfectly demonstrated what the Premier League lift is in recent years. They have frequently traveled between the Premier League and the English Championship in recent seasons.

So facing such a team, and having just finished a league game four days ago, and another league game 48 hours later, Klopp had to make adjustments.

Ye Qi still got the starting spot, and his physical condition was fine. Mane got a rest, and his replacement was Lallana.

At the same time, at center back, Matip is partnered with Stewart.

Considering the intensive schedule and the fact that Matip will play in the African Cup of Nations in January next year, Klopp will give other central defenders some training opportunities during this period in order to replace Matip in January.

Even though it was at their home court, Burnley still played conservatively. After all, they knew that their opponent was the giant Liverpool.

Although Liverpool has been somewhat lonely in the league in recent years, Burnley believes that a dog can bully a tiger even though it is in peace... That is not something that a dog of its own can bully.

In this game, Sean Dyche arranged a 451 formation, with two defensive midfielders, two full midfielders, and an attacking midfielder, plus a single center forward.

The main focus is a defensive counterattack.

Although the snow at Moore Stadium has melted, there is still a lot of water on the grass. Fortunately, Liverpool has become accustomed to this kind of "rain game" without rain in the game against Swansea just now.

Ye Qi withstood the pressure of two or three defensive players in the frontcourt alone, which created opportunities for his teammates behind him.

In the seventh minute, Ye Qi suppressed the opponent's central defender. Lallana followed up and crossed the middle of the penalty area. Wijnaldum came up and shot a smothering shot, but the ball was slightly higher than the crossbar.

In the 15th minute, Ye Qi received Leiva's pass and passed it to Coutinho.

After Coutinho entered the penalty area, he shot directly, but the shot was too high and was hugged by the opponent's goalkeeper.

In the seventeenth minute, Milner from the backcourt sent a ball from behind. Ye Qi ran around to get the ball behind the opponent's central defender.

But the opponent's central defender Michael Keane reacted quickly, turned around and blocked his position in advance, and then passed the ball back to the goalkeeper.

In the 25th minute, Moreno made a pass from the wing. Ye Qi, who was near the small penalty area, took off and beat Michael Keane to get the ball, and then hit the goal with a header!

It was just that the opponent's goalkeeper shot the ball away with one hand.

In the 30th minute, Burnley wanted to launch a counterattack, but it was difficult to penetrate Liverpool's defense. In the end, due to Matip's interference, the opponent's center's shot failed to come up and was hugged by goalkeeper Mignolet.

Soon the first half of the game ended and the halftime break came.

In the visiting team's locker room, head coach Klopp said: "We can play more patiently, it doesn't matter!"

"In the second half, we continued to consume the opponent's physical energy. It is best if we can pull the opponent out. If not, then let the opponent run through scheduling."

"We have to seize every opportunity, and again, play patiently. Don't make mistakes, and don't give your opponents a chance. Once the opportunity arises... we strive to hit it with one hit!"

Many pseudo-fans believe that there is almost no suspense in a game with a large disparity in strength, and it may even be a big score.

But fans who often watch the Premier League will understand that there are no underdogs in the Premier League. If you don't pay attention, the wealthy family may capsize in the gutter.

Therefore, many people think that it will not be difficult for Liverpool to win in this game. After all, according to the current situation, Liverpool is a member of the championship group, while Burnley is a member of the relegation group. The strength of the two teams is very different. land.

But the entire first half of the game passed. Not to mention scoring goals, Liverpool didn't even have many shots that threatened Burnley's goal.

At the beginning of the second half, Liverpool used its backcourt scheduling to attract the opponent.

But Burnley were not fooled and the situation became deadlocked again.

If you can't attack for a long time, problems will easily occur!

Many fans believed that Liverpool was dangerous in this game, although Liverpool did not use a large-scale "fire suppression". But he controlled most of the ball possession and the rhythm of the game, but he failed to create too many opportunities.

Later, there were fewer shots from Liverpool. The ball was sent to the frontcourt and there was no good chance. Ye Qi directly passed it back to the defensive midfielder Leiva or Milner who was in the back position.

Liverpool is not in a hurry, and Burnley is even less anxious.

For Sean Dyche, being undefeated at home in this game is already a good gain.

His goal this season is very clear, which is to avoid relegation! Win the games you should win as much as possible, and try your best to remain undefeated in the games you can't win. This is his current thinking.

The game has reached seventy minutes, and neither head coach has made any substitutions yet.

Sean Dyche said that the team is not in a hurry at all and will just waste time with the opponent. Being able to waste time directly is the best result.

Therefore, after Burnley got the ball in the backcourt, they did not pass the ball forward immediately, but controlled the ball in the midfield and backcourt.

They were thinking the same thing as Liverpool, either to directly consume the little game time, or to attract Liverpool to come up, so that there would be a large space behind the opponent, follow the big foot to pass the ball behind the opponent, and counterattack!