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Chapter 495 Metamorphosis

December 23rd, at sixteen o'clock in the afternoon.

Anfield Stadium.

In the 19th round of the Premier League, Liverpool played against Watford at home.

Since it is at home, Liverpool must win the three points, so Liverpool played with the main force in this game, and Benitez directly shouted the slogan of must get three points before the game.

Liverpool still formed a four-four-two formation, Yang Yang and Peter Crouch served as the team's double forwards, and Luis Garcia, Gerrard, Harvey Alonso and Pennant formed the midfield.

Among them, Luis Garcia and Pennant will be positioned relatively more forward, acting as wing attackers.

This style of play created a clear advantage at the beginning of the game and almost firmly controlled the situation. However, the quality of the crosses from the two wingers was not high and there were many mistakes. They did not create a threat in the first 10 minutes.

Instead, in the No. 12 minute, the team changed their strategy. Crouch assisted Pennant to score a goal, which broke the deadlock on the field first and took the lead for Liverpool.

After changing sides to fight again in the second half, Benitez made adjustments and Liverpool took the lead.

Gerrard broke through the middle and made a direct pass. After Yang Yang got the ball in the penalty area, he dexterously got rid of the defender. He turned and volleyed near the penalty spot and made another victory for Liverpool. This is Yang Yang's No. 15 league goal this season.

After leading by two goals, Liverpool continued to play steadily.

No.606 minutes, Benitez began to make substitutions, Dirk Dirk replaced Peter Crouch.

Only 4 minutes later, Yang Yang forced a breakthrough on the left and assisted the Dutch striker to score a goal, extending the score to three to zero.

After 1 minute, Benitez changed two people in a row, Robbie Fowler replaced Yang Yang, and Aurelio replaced Gerrard.

Leading by three goals, Liverpool can be said to have settled the overall situation.

In the No.808 minute of the game, Harvey Alonso scored a long shot and made another victory for Liverpool.

Four to zero!
This is already Liverpool's record of winning four consecutive games with four goals.

The entire Anfield stadium was completely in a carnival, and everyone was very satisfied with Liverpool's recent performance.

After entering December, Liverpool began to play out.

The rotation of Benitez in the early stage of the season finally played a key role in this period of time. Not only the main players such as Yang Yang, Gerrard, Dirk Dirk and Xavi Alonso performed well, but even Pennant, Luis Garcia and other players also performed well frequently.

The only regret is that the injury of Mohamed Sissoko has always made the team's midfield defense full of hidden dangers.

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Liverpool beat Watford [-]-[-] at home, and the other three strong teams in the Premier League also did not fall behind.

Chelsea challenged Wigan Athletic in an away game. After Lampard and Kalou scored two goals in a row, veteran center Heskey scored two goals for Wigan Athletic in the second half to equalize the score. At the critical moment, Robben scored a lore goal for Chelsea in the second minute of stoppage time.

In the end, the Blues narrowly beat Wigan Athletic [-]-[-] away.

Arsenal played against Blackburn at home, but the latter obviously did not intend to smash the Gunners away.

In the opening 3 minutes, Roundup scored a goal for Blackburn, but soon, Arsenal's Gilberto Silva, Hleb, Adebayor scored three goals in a row, Van Persie scored twice, and Flamini scored the sixth goal.

In the end, the Gunners beat Blackburn [-]-[-] at home.

Although this victory made the Gunners fans very excited, it also made Liverpool sweat secretly.

Because the team will face Blackburn at home in the next round.

In the Premier League, Blackburn, who has the title of violent book, is quite difficult to play at home, and from their proper away game against Arsenal, it is not difficult to see that they want to guarantee the basic set, that is, the home game.

For all the teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League, the devil's schedule must make a trade-off, and it is impossible to try their best in every game, and it will only perform worse in the end.

Manchester United beat Aston Villa [-]-[-] in this round of away games. Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice to ensure that Manchester United got a good start in the devil's schedule.

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Facts have also proved that Liverpool's concerns are not unreasonable.

December 26th is commonly known as Boxing Day.

Liverpool away to Blackburn.

After beating their opponents with four goals in four consecutive rounds, Liverpool was finally scored.

The conceded goal occurred in the No.409 minute. Blackburn's Peddle passed the ball from the left, and McCarthy, who once played for Porto, scored in front of the goal.

Subsequently, Blackburn faced Liverpool with a guarded attitude.

In the first half, Benitez played a midfield combination of Gerrard and Aurelio. Yang Yang and Crouch sat on the bench, and at the same time played a three-back style. Carragher, Agger and Hyypia started at the same time.

This was originally hoped to be able to make a transition and let the team survive this devil's schedule, but unexpectedly, Blackburn seized the opportunity to score the first goal, but the team's offense has never been able to play a threat.

Benitez started to make substitutions from No. 604 minutes, first replaced Carragher with Harvey Alonso, let Aurelio return to the left, Gerrard and Harvey Alonso partnered in the middle of the midfield, and the team returned to the four-back play.

In this way, the team stabilized its position.

No.701 minutes, Yang Yang came off the bench and replaced Riise.

After coming off the bench, Yang Yang quickly made a threatening cross from the left. Harvey Alonso volleyed from the outside of the penalty area, slightly brushing the post and going out of the baseline, making the Blackburn fans break out in a cold sweat.

In the No. 801 minute, Finnan's precise cross from the right fell to the back of the penalty area. Yang Yang quickly slanted into the penalty area, grabbed this point, and volleyed directly to Blackburn's goal.

American goalkeeper Friedel was extremely excited in this game. He even flew to save Yang Yang's shot and resolved a wonderful goal. Fortunately, Gerrard, who was inserted in the back row, followed up and made a missed shot.

Then Liverpool besieged Blackburn continuously, but Friedel performed very brilliantly, saving consecutive wonderful shots from Harvey Alonso and Yang Yang, and finally kept the [-]-[-] score until the end of the game.

In the end, Liverpool tied Blackburn [-]-[-] away.

Benitez is still satisfied with the result of the game, because the team not only scored away points, but also had no injuries.

This should be the biggest hidden danger for all teams playing Blackburn away.

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At the same time, several other games were also successively determined.

Chelsea played against Reading at home, Drogba performed very bravely, scored twice, and helped Chelsea lead twice, but unfortunately, Essien's own goal at the end allowed Reading to take away a point from Stamford Bridge.

There is a lot of grievances between the two teams, especially in the eighth round of this season, when Chelsea challenged Reading away, the main goalkeeper Petr Cech and the substitute goalkeeper Cudicini were injured successively, and the two goalkeepers have not come back yet.

And Mourinho was furious at not being able to win Reading at home in this game, thinking that this was not just a three-point issue, but also a missed opportunity for revenge.

Chelsea lost points in consecutive draws with Liverpool, and the happiest people are Manchester United and Arsenal.

The Red Devils Manchester United played against Wigan Athletic at home in this game. Cristiano Ronaldo came off the bench in the second half. As a result, he only took 2 minutes to break the deadlock for Manchester United and scored twice in the minute.

Then Rooney assisted Solskjaer to score the third goal.

It took only 4 minutes for Manchester United to end the battle from start to finish.

After the game, the entire British and European media were shocked by Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored twice in two consecutive games. Everyone believed that the No. [-] player of Manchester United had finally completed his transformation and played his best form under the heavy pressure of the whole season in the crucial Christmas devil schedule.

Ferguson also spoke highly of his favorite player in the post-match press conference, "I had a hunch that he could change the game, so I put him on the bench, and I told him that he would change the game in the second half."

"Facts have proved that after the test in the first half, we found the opponent's weakness and loopholes, and we ended the game quickly."

"Cristiano Ronaldo has been in great form lately, I think he's heading towards the top of his career, and he's showing great hunger himself."

As for his favorite player, Ferguson made no secret that he is a strong contender for the Premier League Player of the Year this season.

"Before the winter break, everyone will think about Liverpool's Yang Yang, or Chelsea's Drogba. Of course, these two players are very good, but I believe that after the winter break, everyone will add one person, and that is Cristiano Ronaldo."

"All three players have a very good scoring ability, they can use their outstanding performance to push the fans to the highest level, and we should expect these three players to bring great changes to the Premier League this season."

Arsenal also won this round.

In the away game against Watford, although the Gunners were once equalized, Van Persie's goal at the last moment saved Wenger's team and finally helped Arsenal take three points from the away game.

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At the end of the twenty rounds, Manchester United ranked first in the Premier League standings with 47 points, Chelsea ranked second with 43 points, Liverpool ranked third with 42 points, Gunners Arsenal ranked fourth, and fifth place Bolton both had 36 points.

Among them, Bolton will also be Liverpool's opponent in the last game of the Devil's schedule during the winter break.

In the scorer list, since Yang Yang did not score this round, Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo both scored twice, so Yang Yang's goals are still fifteen, Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo are twelve and ten respectively.

Everyone began to believe that the competition in the Premier League gradually began to become more exciting and more intense.

(End of this chapter)