On the evening of April 8, Anfield Stadium.

When the international referee from Denmark, Claus Bo Larsson, blew the final whistle, the entire Anfield stadium fell silent and the countless Liverpool fans in the stands choked up.

The big red scoreboard shows the final result of the game, 1 to 3.

In international practice, the home team is in front and the away team is in the back.

This is undoubtedly a desperate home result!

Liverpool, from the coach to the players, are all surprised by this result, and there may even be many people, at the end of the game, they still don't know why they lost and why they are so miserable?

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When the whistle blew, Yang Yang squatted in the Chelsea penalty area depressed.

He had just finished with a shot but it was saved by Cech.

It's definitely not a night out for Liverpool!

Although, Yang Yang scored a goal in just six minutes of the opening game to open the door for Liverpool to win.

The arrogant army will be defeated!

This is a term that pops up in Yang Yang's mind at this moment.

Over the past few years, the dominance of Chelsea's results and the embarrassment of Chelsea's winless run so far this season, combined with the previous 6-1 win over Manchester United and then the 5-0 thrashing of Aston Villa, have filled Liverpool with an overly optimistic and even a bit of arrogance.

The stadium is like a battlefield, and arrogance means a fiasco!

Manchester United were arrogant, Ferguson was arrogant, so they lost miserably on their home turf, losing 1-6.

Now, it's Liverpool's turn.

The 1-3 home score can almost be said to have completely ruined Liverpool's hopes of qualifying, and completely pushed the Reds to a dead end.

So what is the reason for this result?

Three goals, two came from substitute right-back Branislav Ivanovic and one from Didier Drogba.

And interestingly, all three came from corners!

Set-pieces, high points, that's what all three goals have in common.

Guus Hiddink is a world-class coach who has keenly grasped a fatal hole that Liverpool has long been covered up, and that is the lack of high-quality defensive ability from set-pieces.

Arbeloa and Aurerio are both offensive and defensive full-backs, but neither is tall, Carragher is good at ground defense, fast and has a wide range of movement, but he has no advantage in snatching high points, and the third goal came from his defensive mistakes against Drogba.

Needless to say, in midfield, Mascherano is suspended for accumulating yellow cards, Gareth Barry and Xavi Alonso have no advantage in high balls, and the last time Liverpool won the Champions League, standing next to Xavi Alonso was the tall and strong midfielder Mohamed Sissoko.

It can be said that Liverpool has always had a hidden problem when it comes to defending from set-pieces, especially against a team like Chelsea with a number of tall players.

Guus Hiddink clearly had a purpose, winning right wing-back Bosingwa, who has been doing well this season, and starting the tall Branislav Ivanovic, so that the entire backline was tall except for Ashley Cole.

There is Ballack in midfield, Drogba in the forward line, and all three lines are supported by high points.

When Chelsea took a corner, the group of tall players made a stop in the Liverpool penalty area, and the shock can be imagined.

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Liverpool themselves are not without mistakes.

Maybe it's because of the continuous fighting, or maybe it's because of some carelessness, Benitez was also unprepared before the game.

For example, Ivanovich is somewhat undervalued.

The Serbian defender joined Chelsea in January '08 and is interesting to say when Chelsea manager Grant didn't give him a minute in the second half of the season, only letting him play with the second team.

This season, after Scolari took office, Ivanovic's position has not changed.

In 31 games so far in the Premier League, Ivanovic has only made nine appearances, two of which were garbage time and one in the second half, so much so that although he has been with the team for more than a year, everyone is still very new to him.

Before playing Liverpool, everyone thought that Bosingwa would be the best candidate for Chelsea's right flank, and might even let Essi play a cameo at right wing-back to freeze Yang Yang, but no one expected that Hiddink would let Ivanovic play in this position.

It was difficult for the Serbian defender to contain Yang Yang, and in less than six minutes of the opening game, Yang Yang was given a chance to score.

But then Chelsea defended all the way, not giving Liverpool much more chances, but instead used three corners in a row to break Liverpool's goal again and again.

In fact, Yang Yang had already realised something was wrong when he conceded the first goal in the first half and was equalised by Chelsea.

At half-time, he conveyed his thoughts to Benitez, and the Spaniard apparently noticed it and made a change to allow Gerrard to keep an eye on Branislav Ivanovic when defending corners.

But Chelsea had too many highs, Steven Gerrard missed and was given the second goal by the Serbian defender.

Three minutes later, another corner kick was held, this time by Ivanovic, but not by Drogba.

Who would have thought that Liverpool, who had been soaring all the way this season, would fall on a corner kick.

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Yang Yang grabbed his head hard and stood up from the ground.

His pre-match fears were right, Hiddink was indeed a bull.

The Dutch coach not only grasped Liverpool's dead end, but also insisted on hitting this weakness again and again.

It was a big gamble, and Hiddink won the bet!

However, this is also a lesson for Liverpool.

Today's Liverpool has long been the top team in Europe, and almost all teams are doing everything possible to dig and find Liverpool's loopholes and weaknesses, not to mention Chelsea's Hiddink, let's say Hodgson's Fulham last weekend, which also made Liverpool almost capsize in the gutter.

This is European football!

Here, the competition is extremely fierce, a little careless, a little careless, a little complacent, a little slippery, a little bit of state, which can immediately lead to the consequences of a catastrophe!

Sometimes when you think about it, it's not a bad thing for Liverpool, at least it's a wake-up call.

It's just that the consequences ...... It's a bit miserable!

Luckily, there's a second round!

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Yang Yang walked over and pulled Gerald up hard.

The Liverpool captain was also in a slump tonight and if he had kept his eye on Branislav Ivanovic, the second goal would not have happened.

"It's okay, there's a second round, we still have a chance!" Yang Yang hugged Gerrard hard and comforted his teammates with red eyes.

Gerrard looked incredibly remorseful and sad, and maybe he now figured out what was going on with him in the game.

"I was completely confused." Gerard said remorsefully.

"Don't think too much about it, the most important thing is the second round in a week." Yang Yang reminded again.

It's not time to regret it.

The score of 1 to 3 is indeed very miserable, but it is not overwhelming.

Of course, it will be difficult to reverse Chelsea at Stamford Bridge......

But in any case, the most important thing now is to keep a hope.

Gerrard is also a strong man, sadness and regret are only temporary, as the captain of the team, he also quickly understood, and knew that the most important thing now is not remorse, but to get out of the trough as soon as possible and prepare for the final in a week.

The score of 1-3 determines that Liverpool must score more than three goals away from home to win, which will be a test of Liverpool's attacking ability on the road, and it is also a challenge to the team's form.

After letting go of Gerrard, Yang Yang walked towards Xavi Alonso.

But before he could get closer, Xavi Alonso had already shaken his head, "Don't worry, I'm fine, just a little bit of a nest." ”

Who isn't?

In terms of strength, Liverpool will definitely not be beaten like this on their home turf, but it just happened.

Three corners, the first of which was that he missed someone, saying that the bag was light.

"Hiddink is really good!" Xavi Alonso exclaimed.

Yang Yang nodded, he also thought the same thing in his heart.

In the 2002 South Korea-Japan World Cup, many people only remember the ugly behavior of the Koreans, but they were able to enter the final four of the World Cup, and the South Korean team was also strong enough to be at the bottom, and Hiddink's coaching was definitely the key factor for the South Korean team to reach the semi-finals.

Subsequently, whether it was him coaching PSV Eindhoven or the Russian national team, and now fighting Chelsea in the middle of the game, they all showed surprising coaching strength, especially Chelsea, Hiddink's performance after taking charge can be described as a new look.

But admiration is admiration, and it is okay to talk about it in private, but Hiddink is now Liverpool's number one enemy.

'No matter how strong he is, in a week we have to do everything we can to get him down at Stamford Bridge!'

Yang Yang patted Xavi Alonso on the shoulder, then turned and left.

It is conceivable that in the second leg, Hiddink must do his best to defend and counterattack, which will be a great test for Liverpool.

Especially offensively.

And Yang Yang is Liverpool's last hope!

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As the team's number one star, the loss in this game had nothing to do with Yang Yang, because he performed very well, scoring a goal shortly after the opening game to give the team the lead.

The root cause of the defeat lies in the team's defence, especially from set-pieces.

Therefore, Yang Yang and Gerrard comforted their teammates one by one.

This defeat did stunned Liverpool, but it may not be without benefits.

At the very least, the team can be soberly aware that they are not as strong as they appeared to be in the 6-1 win over Manchester United.

If Liverpool can regroup, the battle at Stamford Bridge in a week may not be out of the question.

Especially when the Liverpool fans in the stands woke up from the loss, the stadium gradually sounded Liverpool's team song, the team song "You Never Walk Alone", which sounded over the Anfield stadium at this moment, somewhat tragic, but also made the players in the stadium feel the strength.

They haven't lost the support from the fans!

As Yang Yang said, there is still a second round, and it is not yet time to despair!