"It's unbelievable that Liverpool, who once dominated European football, should decline to this point. After the break, the elder Charlie who stepped on the pitch again was still lamenting Liverpool's situation, "Look at the current Liverpool team, where can you still see that it is a top club? There is not even a top star in the team, can such a club be called a giant club?"

Some may mention Basturk's name. However, objectively speaking, despite his outstanding performances in the Turkish national team, Bayer Leverkusen and Tottenham, and many honors won with the team, in the eyes of fans and media, Basturk can only be regarded as a quasi-first-class star - Turkey won the third place in the World Cup, the biggest contributors were Rustu and Emre, Basturk's brilliance is not even as good as Hassan Sass and Ilhan; Not to mention when he played at White Hart Lane, when Tottenham won the Champions League, his main midfield position was even taken away by the veteran Davies!

This is true of even the most famous Basturk, not to mention the rest of Liverpool's players. As a result, Liverpool, which has a poor record and a scarcity of stars in the team, is naturally difficult to be regarded as a top giant at the same level as Manchester United, Real Madrid and other clubs!

While other G14 members have had their share of low results, such as Inter Milan, who have also failed to win a league title in more than a decade, no matter how disastrous the Nerazzurri's record, the Pinettina training base will not be short of top stars – Ronaldo, Roberto Baggio, Vieri, Zanetti, Toldo...... These players did not help Moratti regain the glory of the "big international era", but they also helped Inter Milan in the trough to maintain the signature of the top giants!

In George's previous life, with the huge TV revenue of the Premier League and a stable Champions League seat, although Liverpool's appeal is not as good as the other three "BIG4", it is enough to make it live quite nourishing and keep the sign of the top giants. It wasn't until the rise of clubs such as Manchester City and Tottenham that the likes of Alonso and Mascherano switched to their teams that the Reds, who had been severely weakened, lost their place in the top four of the league. And in this life, the only top star Gerrard left the team, and there were no top stars such as Mascherano, Alonso, Torres, etc., Liverpool, which had a poor record and lacked stardom, naturally could not survive like Inter Milan!

"In my opinion, this problem is actually not difficult to solve. Unlike the old Charlie, who was sorry for what happened to Liverpool, George seemed very unimpressed with this, "As long as Liverpool is willing to put down the shelves of the top giants, take the trouble to give Benitez more time to integrate the team, accumulate strength in a down-to-earth manner, and with Liverpool's heritage, it will not take a few years to return to the ranks of the championship team." Unfortunately, Liverpool are too impatient at the moment, even to the point where it can affect the atmosphere in the dressing room and the mentality of the players. From the management to the players to the fans, they can't face themselves and put their mentality right!"

The negative impact of the Heysel tragedy on Liverpool is extremely huge, not only because UOUFA's five-year European ban on this incident made a heavy penalty for a long time, which made English clubs unable to compete with the top teams of other countries for a long time, which led to an overall decline in the competitive level of English football, but also because this tragedy put Liverpool on its back a heavy psychological burden, which made a team of kings fall apart in an instant, and greatly damaged the vitality of Liverpool, which was at its peak!

After that, the more Liverpool was clouded by the Heysel tragedy, the more eager they were to return to the top, the farther away they were from the championship trophy. The most important reason is that under the influence of this impatience, Liverpudlians have lost their due composure and calmness!

With a comprehensive backward style of technical and tactical play, and not enough funds to bring in strong reinforcements, and refusing to let go of the mentality and reserve of being the hegemon of English football, Liverpool's decline is naturally inevitable.

As a head coach, Benitez's coaching ability can already be called top-notch. However, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, the overall strength of the team is limited, and there is no ability to stand out from the big-name stars, and the Spanish coach has no way to lead the Red Army to go further. Objectively speaking, Benitez was able to bring Liverpool, which had a bad start, all the way to the fourth place in the standings, and even pressed Arsenal below, which is already an extremely rare feat!

The miracles of Leicester and Kaiserslautern have certainly been talked about by countless fans. But miracles are called miracles because of their rarity and unrepeatability. Not to mention, both Chelsea and Tottenham have been in surprisingly good form this season, leaving the rest of the team far behind in the table. In such a situation, even if Liverpool wants to play a drama of "snipe and clam fight, fishermen profit", they can't find a suitable opportunity at all!

Faced with the disadvantage of falling behind by three goals, Benitez did not choose to give up the game. After some adjustments, it was clear that the performance of the Liverpool players in the second half improved a lot. Crouch has increased his off-ball runs, paid more attention to playing the ball to his teammates, and stopped going toe-to-toe with Ledley King and Nemanja Vidic. In addition, Liverpool's back-to-back attacks and in-cut shots have also begun to increase, and they no longer know how to blindly pick up high balls from the flanks to find Crouch's head as they did in the first half.

Obviously, after realising that there is no way to take advantage of Tottenham's defence by attacking directly, Benitez changed his strategy and planned to use Crouch's technical advantage at his feet to attack the Tottenham goal in a different way!

It has to be said that Benitez's hand adjustment is quite effective. First of all, although Crouch's leading role is not as good as Drogba's, and his technical level is far from that of Ibrahimovic, as a tactical fulcrum, the England centre-forward is quite qualified. Secondly, the likes of Colwill, Luis Garcia, Hamann and Basturk all have good long-range shots. Combined, the two caused considerable problems for Tottenham's defence – Basturk and Luis Garcia knocked Cech's fingers past from distance to help Liverpool close the score by just one goal!

However, just when the Liverpudlians finally saw a glimmer of hope for a comeback victory, Ronaldo once again showed his strength as the new European Ballon d'Or winner, and completely extinguished the flame of Liverpool's counterattack with a goal - just one minute after Luis Garcia's goal, Ronaldo received Drogba's pick pass and scored with a header, rewriting the score to 4-2, extinguishing the Reds' counterattack momentum in time and regaining the initiative in the game!

Seeing that the morale of the team was instantly gone, Benitez, who had exhausted his means, had no choice but to announce his surrender and took the initiative to replace the main players such as Colwill and Basturk. George also cooperated quite well to replace the brace Cristiano Ronaldo and Alonso with Lennon and Mendieta, and the game went into garbage time!

Tottenham's goalscoring momentum didn't end there. In the 85th minute, Lennon's cross was cleared by Carragher's header, Mendieta won the ball outside the penalty area and crossed it with a decisive cross, and Gerrard, who followed up, pierced his old club's goal with his trademark long-range shot!

Tottenham's big win over the Reds at Anfield added to the history of their feud with Liverpool while chasing Chelsea at the top of the table.

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