412. A bad start
With this game in place, Liverpool are preparing for the weekend, when they travel to Manchester City for the 27th round of the Premier League, and now Liverpool are only two points ahead of Chelsea, which is of course very important.
In this round of games, Chelsea played Wolves away, Manchester United played Everton away, and Arsenal played Sunderland at home.
In this game, Gerrard and Carragher and others all started at the same time, and Qiu Ze naturally also started. Perhaps because of the midweek stumble with Real Madrid, the Liverpool players were not very excited, and in the end of the game, Liverpool drew 0-0 away and won a point.
And in this round of must-love, Chelsea won 2-0 away at Wolves, while Manchester United lost 3-1 away to Everton, it seems that the midweek and Rossoneri are struggling, so Manchester United also consumes a lot, and Arsenal won 2-1 at home to Sunderland.
At the end of the 27th round of the Premier League, Liverpool are still top of the league with 61 points. Chelsea also have 61 points, but because of the win, Chelsea are second behind Liverpool.
Manchester United lost this game and their points remain unchanged at 56 points and they are third in the league, while Arsenal won and they are now fourth in the league with 51 points. Aston Villa, who are fifth in the league, have 48 points, followed by Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City, both with 46 points, and are sixth and seventh.
This is followed by 28 rounds of the Premier League, which is not a double game in a week, and the league is played at the weekend. However, because this season's English League Cup final will be played at the weekend, the two matches between Liverpool and Aston Villa will be brought forward to midweek, and the two teams will play the League Cup final at the weekend.
Liverpool's opponent in this round is Blackburn Rovers, and Liverpool will return to their home stadium to play. Aston Villa, on the other hand, are away to Hull City, and it is clear that both teams will focus on the final at the weekend, so now the opportunity for Blackburn Rovers and Hull City to pick up points has arrived.
In this game, Qiu Ze and Gerrard and others did not start, Fernando 61 Torres did not need to find his form anymore, Marcus 61 Berry started the game, although Huntelaar has recovered most of his injuries now and can carry out simple training with the team, but it will take a certain amount of time to fully recover.
At the beginning of the game, Blackburn Rovers were mainly anti-away, and it can be seen that they are really aiming for points in this game, and they even want to take three points from Liverpool.
Although the Liverpool team did not have an all-main lineup, the Liverpool team performed well today, and their strength was obviously higher than Blackburn, so at the end of the first half, Marcus 61 Berry received a pass from Kuyt, broke Blackburn's goal, and led 1-0.
At the start of the second half, Blackburn Rovers launched a series of ferocious attacks and equalised in the 10th minute of the second half, much to the surprise of Liverpool fans.
In the later game, Blackburn was getting more and more courageous, as if they were about to win three points, but in the 37th minute of the second half, Kuyt's shijie wave extinguished the flame of hope in Blake's heart, and finally Liverpool won 2-1 at home to Blackburn and successfully get three points.
This game is actually still very thrilling, and the Liverpool team almost capsized in the gutter in this game. Qiu Ze and Steven Gerrard all got a rare rest in this game, and their main attention was on the final of the English League Cup.
Aston Villa, who were opponents in the Carabao Cup final for Liverpool, were in a good game and were indeed much better than Hull City, with Aston Villa picking up three points in a comfortable 2-0 win away from home.
Aston Villa's quality is indeed very strong, especially their attacking trident up front, Ashley 61 Young, Abonlaho and Caroo, the trio of strikers is a very strong combination in the Premier League, and it is even a combination that makes Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool hot.
Among them, Manchester United flew to Ashley, 61 Young and Abang Lajo, who were hoping to bring in Aston Villa. Abang Lajo attracted the attention of the Premier League's traditional four very early on, and it was the Premier League's traditional four who very much wanted to bring in a striker, but unfortunately Abang Laho was reluctant to leave Aston Villa, and the Premier League's traditional four did not succeed.
The English League Cup final between Liverpool and Aston Villa will be played on Sunday, while part of this weekend's Premier League fixtures will be played on Saturday and part on Sunday.
For example, Chelsea's game is played on Saturday, while Manchester United's match against Arsenal is played on Sunday.
Chelsea face Manchester City on their home turf, and now they are level on points with Liverpool, and of course they will very much want to bite the bullet and wait for a chance to overtake Liverpool, who must win on their home turf now that they have won this game.
Carlos 61 Carlo Ancelotti is really serious about this game and they will be hoping that the team can beat Manchester City and continue to put pressure on Liverpool.
The wind was fine in the first half, with Chelsea dominating the top and Didier Drogba netting a goal towards the end of the first half to give Chelsea the lead. Everyone thought Chelsea would easily beat Manchester City.
However, the situation in the second half changed abruptly, and at the beginning of the second half, Manchester City won two consecutive cities to overtake the score, which made the Chelsea people very anxious. The Chelsea men immediately stepped up their attacking efforts and were attacked by Manchester City, who went two more to take a 4-1 lead.
The Chelsea were stunned, they were completely confused by the Manchester City people, and the next game Chelsea's crazy attack, hoping to save the defeat, but they also only scored one goal, and in the end, Chelsea lost 2-4 at home, and was once again opened up by Liverpool.
By this time, Liverpool were preparing for tomorrow's final, and the Liverpool players were thrilled to learn of Chelsea's defeat to Manchester City.
This season's English League Cup final will be played at Wembley Stadium, which is a neutral stadium.
On the day of the final, there were a lot of Liverpool fans and Aston Villa fans who came to the scene to cheer for their respective teams, this is the final, although this is a League Cup final, even if the mosquito is small, he is also a champion, isn't it?
The Liverpool team still attaches more importance to this championship, after all, it has come to this position, if you don't fight for it, you are really sorry for yourself.
In this game, the Liverpool team naturally had to go all out, Qiu Ze and Gerrard and others were in the starting line-up to launch a strong rush for the first title of the season.
Naturally, the Liverpool team in this game is also a 4231 formation, with Reina in goal, Glenn 61 Johnson, Skrtel, Joel Luca and Gareth 61 Bale in the back four, and Gerrard and Khedira in the back two.
In the attack, Liverpool's trio were Maxi 61 Rodriguez, Qiu Ze and Arshavin, and at the top of the line was Fernando 61 Torres.
Aston Villa's formation today was not four-three-three, but four-four-two. In the goalkeeper's position, it was Friedel. In a back four, Cuellar, Collins, Dunn and Volnock are the players. In midfield were Ashley 61 Young, Petrov, Milner and Downing, while up front were Abang Laho and Heskey.
The Karui brothers did not start today, but sat on the bench, and it seems that Aston Villa still has a hand.
Soon referee Webb blew the whistle for the start of the game, with Aston Villa kicking off first. Aston Villa launched an onslaught as soon as they came up and didn't seem to care about Liverpool at all. This hand caught the Liverpool team off guard.
The ball flew to the side, Ashley 61 Young caught the ball, the guy had okay speed, he was very sharp in his crosses from the wing. At this time, as soon as he received the ball, he directly accelerated to the bottom, shaking off half of Glenn 61 Johnson's body, and he directly crossed with his feet.
The ball made a beautiful arc in the air and flew straight to Abang Laho in the middle. Abang Lajo had been preparing for this for a long time, he shook off Joel Luka and went straight to the force, ready to jump up and fight for the header.
Joel Luka was really slow this time, and Abonraho had good speed and explosiveness, and he slammed forward and fell Joel Luka. Joel Luka was shocked, if this goal was to be topped by the unmarked Abonlaho, the Liverpool team would be finished.
Immediately, Joeluka stretched out his hands and grabbed Abang Laho tightly, Abang Lajo suddenly kicked the ground and wanted to jump high, but he felt a strong force coming from behind him, he didn't jump up, but his body still went to the center of gravity and fell in the penalty area.
The fans of Aston Villa at the scene immediately coaxed, and when they fell in the penalty area, Abang Lajo also turned around directly, raised his hands at the referee, and signaled that Liverpool's central defender Joel Luca had committed a foul.
Referee Webb saw the ball very clearly, he was in the penalty area at the time, he saw Joel Luca pull down Abonlaho with both hands, so he didn't hesitate and immediately blew the whistle and pointed firmly to the penalty spot.
Weber then walked up to Giorluca and showed him a yellow card. At this time, the Aston Villa players didn't care about that, they were thrilled to get the penalty.
It had only been three minutes since the game and they were awarded a penalty by Aston Villa, so of course they were very excited. At this time, they didn't care whether Joel Luka got a yellow card or a red card.
The Aston Villa fans who came from afar were also very excited and excited, and they were awarded a penalty kick at the beginning of the game, which was a fantastic start. Does this portend something?
And the Liverpool fans are at a loss, and even those who have just walked in don't know what happened? Aston Villa's chance came too soon, right?
Qiu Ze and Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard immediately stepped forward to appeal to the referee, this game has just begun, how can you award a penalty? Qiu Ze and Gerard were in a hurry. On the sidelines, Liverpool's manager Rafael Benitez was even more anxious.
Referee Webb did not hesitate and signaled the players of the Liverpool team to quickly withdraw from the penalty area, and the Aston Villa team was about to take the penalty, and the players of the Liverpool team were extremely unwilling to walk out of the penalty area in twos and threes, allowing the players of Aston Villa to take the penalty.
Heading to the penalty spot was Aston Villa's midfielder James Milner, who was the heart of Aston Villa's midfield. Milner walked to the penalty spot, Reyna was complaining in his heart, damn it, he had been saving penalties for the past two weeks.
Reyna lowered his center of gravity and kept his eyes fixed on the football in front of the penalty spot. Milner is a very cunning guy, first running quickly, and when he came to the football, he suddenly paused, faked, and then blasted the ball into the Liverpool goal.
Reyna was shaken off by Milner, who moved first and Milner pushed the ball in the opposite direction as Aston Villa took the lead just three minutes into the game.