Although Chelsea's trend this season has been more volatile than last season's, they have finally returned to their spirits after the change of manager.

A change of coach is like a change of knife.

Roberto Di Matteo moved on from the Chelsea counter-attack and quickly snapped a two-game winning streak in the league.

Following a 3-0 home win over Wolves in the previous round, Chelsea beat Newcastle United 3-0 at St James' Park in the 14th round of the Premier League!

After the game, Fleet Street praised Di Matteo and suggested that Chelsea could return to the title contenders as the dressing room seemed to change the sky after the removal of Villas-Boas.

Arsenal thrashed Wigan Athletic 4-0 away.

Manchester City, who lost to Anfield in the last round, were not slumped by the blow, after all, they are still the leaders in the table, and the pressure on Liverpool to catch up can only provoke them to fight.

Back at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester City immediately injected a shot in the arm with a 5-1 victory.

Norwich were a bit unlucky, running into a disgruntled Manchester City and being slaughtered.

Manchester United's narrow 1-0 win over Aston Villa at Villa Park looked rather low-key.

It was Liverpool's turn, the fifth game in two weeks, the first four were strong teams, the Premier League has a devilish schedule later this month, and Koeman needs to give the main players some rest, so there is a rotation in this round.

Koeman wanted to play a weak hand to Fulham, so that Fulham would have the guts to play against Liverpool at home.

But I didn't expect Fulham to be fooled, and still put on a bucket formation at home.

After 90 minutes, Liverpool had no choice but to accept a 0-0 draw.

This allowed the gap between the points and Manchester City to be shortened in the previous round and opened up again.

Manchester City 37 points.

Liverpool 33 points.

Manchester United 32 points.

Chelsea 28 points.

Arsenal 26 points.

With the exception of Arsenal and Chelsea, who are a bit far from Manchester City, the gap between the other three teams is actually not huge.

This makes the Premier League title race enter a critical juncture when the devil's schedule arrives!

In the final game of the Champions League group stage, Liverpool simply did not take the main team to Greece, and in the away game against Olympiacos, Koeman sent a lineup that made Olympiacos tremble.

A combination of a bunch of substitutes and young players.

Déjà vu, isn't it?

In the group stage last season, Liverpool put on such a lineup in the final game, and finally made Inter Milan scared away, Inter Milan did not rely on Liverpool II to draw by Twente in the Netherlands, I am afraid that the last game of the group stage will be eliminated.

Because of this, Olympiacos does not dare to take the enemy lightly, God knows if Liverpool's second team is going to kill under the guise of letting the opponent relax their vigilance!

In the end, Olympiacos defeated Liverpool II 2-0 at home with a cautious and calm performance, beating Marseille and Borussia Dortmund to finish second in the group and advance to the last 16 of the Champions League.

At the end of the game, the Greeks were sure that Liverpool were really merciful today!

Koeman faced doubts from the European media after the game, believing that Liverpool sent such a squad to Olympiacos on their own initiative.

Koeman was forced to be anxious, and immediately said angrily: "My team won the group after the last round, but we are still behind Manchester City in the league, Manchester United is under a lot of pressure to catch up behind us, and we are about to enter the cruel Christmas devil schedule of the Premier League, if you are me, what will you do?" Bringing all the main forces from Liverpool to faraway Greece? Then fight the opponent for 90 minutes and then run back to Liverpool to prepare for the league in three days? If you do, you're the stupidest manager in the world, and someone wants to be a fool, but I won't! Stop asking stupid questions and put an end to this time-wasting farce. ”

Koeman walked away and then accepted the UEFA's ticket, submitting a fine of €30,000.

A day later, the draw for the knockout rounds of the Champions League took place.

Defending champions Liverpool had some bad luck as they were drawn second in what is considered to be the strongest group: AC Milan.

However, Liverpool fans are not worried at all, AC Milan has been in decline and is no longer the Milan dynasty of the past.

Back in the Premier League.

Manchester United opened the scoring with a 4-1 win over Wolves at Old Trafford.

The Red Devils are quietly moving forward to the top of the table.

Arsenal beat the Toffees Everton 1-0 at the Emirates Stadium and Arsene Wenger's side seem to have been radically different from what they started the season, with the revamped Arsenal squad now boasting the savior striker that top teams want: Robin van Persie.

It is thanks to the healthy Robin van Persie that has been able to win many games in recent times.

Liverpool, who rested for two games, were on fire at Anfield and the visiting Queens Park Rangers were beaten 4-0.

All three traditional giants won in the 15th round of the tournament.

The highest-profile fixture of the round will be played at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea host Manchester City!

Gary Neville has been sneering at Chelsea with a mouthful of late, first saying that Luis is a game character being manipulated by a 10-year-old and then speculating that there is something wrong with the Blues' dressing room.

In response, new Blues boss Roberto Di Matteo shot back: "A top Brazilian defender, playing for the national team that has won the most world titles, you better be careful when you speak"

'I would be more than happy to say to Neville's face, 'What do you know about the Chelsea dressing room?' What can Neville know about our dressing room? Why do you like to imagine things in the Chelsea dressing room so much? How do you know? Have you been to the Chelsea dressing room? Do you know where the Cobham training base is? Do you know how to get to Cobham? ”

Before the game against Manchester City, Nasri made fun of Chelsea again: "Liverpool are our biggest threat, I don't think there's anything to be afraid of Chelsea, and at Stamford Bridge we have to take three points like Liverpool beat the Blues

Chelsea's home defeat to Arsenal this season, Liverpool's humiliating defeat, followed by a Champions League crash and a change of manager.

It seems that the Blues have become weaklings who are bullied by others.

Di Matteo is dismissive of this, claiming the Blues are recovering!

In their last three matches, Chelsea have kept clean sheets and won three of them, all 3-0.

Before Di Matteo's Chelsea could be taken advantage of by the opponent to kill the killer, they broke out into a tenacious fighting force after showing the enemy weak tactical adjustments.

December 13th.

The Blues and the Blue Moon battled for 90 minutes at Stamford Bridge.

At the end of the 90 minutes of the game, an unexpected result was born! (To be continued.) )