A week later, the Premier League teams were back in a brutal battle for the title and relegation, after a brief respite. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the last round of meetings, the situation of the championship and relegation has become clearer.

Chelsea, who have drawn a draw, are nine points adrift at the top of the table and with 11 games left in the league, there is basically only a theoretical chance of winning the title.

Arsenal were unexpectedly held to a draw by vice-captain Birmingham, not only losing their lead on points, but also taking a big toll on morale, which is almost worse than dropping two points for a young team.

Manchester United seized the opportunity, and their hearty victory in the last round not only narrowed the gap to the top of the table to three points, but also announced to the outside world that the Premier League hegemons Manchester United are back, and now the media and fans are saying that it is the era of the Red Devils again, which is the best proof of this.

As for Liverpool, they have always been the favorites for the championship, even if they have been overtaken by Arsenal several times, their popularity has never changed, why Liverpool is so strong, there is no other reason, it is because Liverpool has two more stars than Arsenal, one is Chen Yu, one is Gerrard, both of them have the ability to change the game by themselves, and Arsenal's players are too young, captain Cesc Fabregas is only 21 years old, such a team is difficult for fans and media to have too much confidence in them, Young people have passion, but the ups and downs are too great, and if they go well, they may collapse if they don't go well, how dare fans and media believe that they can shake the dominance of Liverpool and Manchester United.

Relegation is also the focus of the second half of the season, and at some times, they receive no less attention than a championship game.

The league has played 28 rounds, and only one unwinless Derby County has been relegated, and outside of Derby County, from Birmingham, the vice-captain, to Newcastle United in 12th place, it is not safe, such a huge relegation army has also made the relegation battle of the Premier League this season extremely complicated, of course, it is also extremely exciting.

At this point, every game is going to be very crucial, to put it harshly, even every goal scored and conceded is going to be important, maybe when it's time to score a small point, a single goal can make a season's hard work go down the drain.

Manchester United and Liverpool are weak teams in this round of championship teams, and Chelsea's opponent West Ham United, who theoretically still has the hope of winning the championship, is not weak, but they are relegation worry-free, and there is no hope of European competition, even better than Manchester United and Liverpool's opponents.

Only Arsenal's opponents Aston Villa, who suffered a setback in the previous round, are stronger and they have a good chance of securing a UEFA Cup spot, so this game will be a bad game for Arsenal.

Giants like Arsenal, Liverpool, and Manchester United, who are competing for the championship every season and have a lot of experience, know that the most important thing at this time is not to care about other people's games, but to play their own games well, and do their best, so that they can benefit from other people's mistakes, and they can't win the game, even if others lose more, they can't seize the opportunity.

After a week's rest, the current Liverpool fatigue is gone, away from Bolton in need of relegation Bolton played tigerly, Bolton ranked only 16th, the risk of relegation is very high, although they want to get points on Liverpool, even if they get a point, but Liverpool is in too good shape, completely crushed them with strength, they don't want to attack, defensive counterattacks can not play, forced by Liverpool a burst of indiscriminate bombardment to lie down.

The final score was 3:1, and this 1 goal was still at the end of the game, Liverpool's players relaxed a little, and Bolton took advantage of the loophole to score a face-saving goal.

Manchester United continued the strong momentum of their last game, facing Fulham, who were in desperate need of relegation, they were unrelenting, and they won 3-0 cleanly, leaving Fulham with no chance.

Even Chelsea, who have few title hopes, are doing well, beating West Ham United by four goals to keep that glimmer of hope alive.

Arsenal was forced to draw by Aston Villa at home is an upset, but this upset is also expected by many people, Arsenal is a young team after all, the last game was forced to draw by the deputy squad leader, so that their emotions have a lot of fluctuations, because Liverpool took away the position of the leader, Arsenal's young people are very anxious, this game is a home game, they are all eager to win, under the experienced defense of Aston Villa, they are good at short pass penetration can not open Aston Villa's defense for a while, Then the young Gunners played more and more urgently, and the opportunity created was not able to grasp, but was scored by Aston Villa with a counterattack, and then Arsenal played more and more urgently, the more anxious and unable to open the situation, seeing that the game was about to end, Arsenal's players realized that if this continues, I am afraid that this game will be planted, although they are young, but they are also giant players, they have experienced a lot of big scenes, their brains are confused for most of the half, and they are still sober up at the moment of life and death.

Aston Villa saw that time was running out, bullying Arsenal for not having a high striker, so they simply contracted tighter, wanting to use the iron bucket formation to win this victory.

However, once Arsenal were serious and calm, their mercury-like attack became unstoppable, and no matter how tight Aston Villa's defence was, they were able to get the ball out of the cracks and slotted into the Aston Villa penalty area on several occasions.

The team's penalty area is similar to the women's penalty area, once it is scored, the player's heart panics, and it is easy to make mistakes when panicked, and soon Arsenal seized the opportunity to score the equaliser through Cesc Fabregas.

Arsenal went from strength to death and hit a post, but because of the lack of time, they could only reluctantly draw with Aston Villa at home.

Two rounds ago, Arsenal was still the leader, two points ahead of Liverpool, but after two rounds, the situation changed, and Liverpool was two points ahead of Arsenal to the top of the table.

This change is really unacceptable, but it also confirms many people's thoughts, Arsenal can be a stirring stick, but I am afraid it will be difficult to reach the top, now there are ten rounds of league games left, after being pulled away by Liverpool by two points, Arsenal even if they lose the initiative to win the championship, they including Manchester United want to win the championship, they can only look at Liverpool's face.

The biggest beneficiary is Manchester United, after consecutive wins, Manchester United has quietly caught up with Arsenal, only one point away from Arsenal, and only one goal away from Liverpool, which means that Manchester United has now become a strong team to win the title.

Liverpool has always regarded Manchester United as its biggest rival, even when Chelsea was a smash hit, Liverpool's top and bottom still regarded Manchester United as an enemy, for no other reason, Chelsea is an upstart, it is only because of Abramovich that it has soared, and it may also decline because of Abou's lack of support.

But Manchester United is not, they have a very thick heritage, coach Alex Ferguson is old and strong, the team still has a few talented players, they chase fiercely behind, Liverpool does not dare to have the slightest slack, once a mistake, it may be Manchester United seize the opportunity to catch up, at this stage if it is overtaken by Manchester United, Liverpool is afraid that it will be difficult to reverse even if it has great ability.

Therefore, after the game, Liverpool's manager Benitez issued a declaration to defend the title, saying that the next ten rounds of games are key, and every game is the final, and if they want to defend the title successfully, they must not slack off at all.

Finally, Benitez also encouraged the players, saying that the goal this season is still to try to win the treble, and they will not back down no matter how difficult the game is.

There is a reason why Benitez is talking about the goal of the treble at this time, because they are followed by two games a week, three games in two weeks, and in addition to the league, the FA Cup and the Champions League have also reached a critical moment.

At this time, there was some controversy at the club's top management and the coaching staff, and the focus of the controversy was how to play the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.

Some people think that Liverpool is sleepy, it is good to deal with the league and the Champions League, and it is a bit arrogant to win the treble, not to mention that the opponent in the quarterfinals of the FA Cup is Chelsea, and now the Chelsea league is hopeless, and the goal is to focus on the Champions League and the FA Cup.

The other faction believes that Liverpool has already won the European and league double last season, and if there is no sense of aggressiveness at all this season, then how to deal with thousands of Liverpool fans, so they advocate continued reform.

Benitez also specially asked Chen Yu's opinion, and Chen Yu's attitude was very resolute and serious, that is, no matter how difficult it was, he would strive to win the triple crown.

On the third day after the 28th round of the league, Liverpool sat at Anfield to welcome the revenge of the home defeat Schalke 04.

In the first leg, Liverpool defeated Schalke 04 2-1 away with Chen Yu's brace, which also gave them a huge advantage in the two-legged knockout round, as long as they did not concede more than two goals at home, reaching the quarterfinals was a certainty.

Although in the history of the Champions League, no team has ever turned the tables after losing two goals at home, but Liverpool did not dare to have the slightest arrogance, everyone was right before the interview, and when they were interviewed, they all said that the two-legged game was only halfway through, and if you want to win, you must stick to the end.

Liverpool, who originally had an absolute advantage, was low-key and modest, while Schalke 04, which had fallen into a desperate situation, was very high-profile.

Schalke 04 manager Slomka said that Liverpool has not yet qualified, Schalke 04 is not out, although it is extremely difficult to win Liverpool by two goals, but it is not impossible, he encouraged the players to give it a go, as long as they play their true level, even if they are eliminated in the end, they have no regrets.

The players of Schalke 04 also expressed their intention to cause some trouble for Liverpool at Anfield, hoping that Liverpool would boldly attack and give the fans a wonderful game.

Liverpool ignored Schalke 04's provocation and did not respond, but secretly saved up his strength in his heart and was ready to abuse Schalke 04 on the field.