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After the brutal test of the Christmas devil's schedule, the Premier League title race and relegation situation have begun to emerge.

Among the title contenders, Jose Mourinho and Alex Ferguson's teams were blocked last night, Arsene Wenger finally turned around, while Benitez continued the winning streak that Ferguson and Mourinho least wanted to see.

Among the relegation teams, in addition to the bitter brothers Fulham and Watford, Charlton, Wigan and Sheffield United have all suffered defeats, for them, winter has just arrived.

Obviously, Liverpool are the biggest winners in this round of the Premier League and the entire devil's schedule.

During the Christmas schedule, Rafael Benitez's side scored 12 points from four games, scoring 12 goals and conceding one. Manchester United's record of three wins and one draw in four games is only Liverpool, Arsenal is third with nine points from three wins and one loss, and Chelsea are unbeaten in four games in the Devil's schedule, but only six points from one win and three draws make them the biggest loser in the Devil's schedule.

Liverpool smiled at England during Christmas, not because of Benitez's rotation, nor by luck, but by the timely comeback of Chen Yu.

Chen Yu scored five of the 12 goals in four games on Christmas, three of them openers and three assists, becoming the biggest contributor to Liverpool's back-to-back wins.

In addition to Liverpool, the biggest winner is Chen Yu.

9 rounds, only 9 rounds of games, Chen Yu caught up with Drogba, who ranked first in the scorer list, and his goal efficiency is so high that it is rare in the Premier League, which has always been known for his attack.

This season, because of the injury of Henry, the top scorer of the Premier League for three consecutive years, the competition for the top scorer has become extremely fierce, after Chen Yu's comeback, because he missed 13 rounds of the league, and he doesn't know what the state is after his comeback, everyone in the outside world is not optimistic that he will make a difference in the scorer list, but after the comeback, Chen Yu has risen like a rocket in the scorer list, and after 9 rounds, he has risen to the first place jaw-droppingly, and Drogba is neck and neck.

Now there are 6 strikers on the scorer list with more than 10 goals, Chen Yu's advantage is not big, but at this moment no one thinks that others still have the chance to compete for the top scorer, and the momentum of Chen Yu's goal completely shocked everyone, including Chen Yu's opponent.

After witnessing Chen Yu score the 13th goal, Drogba said with some discouragement: "It's unbelievable, Chen is crazy, but I don't believe that his crazy state will continue, but even if he is crazy, I will not give up, as for who is the top scorer, let's talk about it at the end of the season, maybe it's me, maybe it's McCarthy or Christano." Ronaldo. ”

Drogba used three crazy times in a row to describe Chen Yu, which Chen Yu got another nickname after 22 rounds: Chen Crazy.

Chen Yu returned, Liverpool was like getting a strong new signing, activating the whole Liverpool team, seeing Liverpool so strong, Chelsea and Arsenal, Tottenham, Everton and other teams that aspire to the championship and Champions League places also have to be blushing.

During the Christmas and New Year periods, the Premier League has a lot of upsets, but it also exposes the shortcomings of the big teams in the lineup, other leagues have winter breaks, teams can use the break time to adjust their status, but the Premier League has no choice, the winter game is more stressful, so the "winter supplement" is the most convenient way for Premier League teams to improve their strength.

In January, the curtain opened on the European winter transfer market, and The Sun announced the winter transfer targets of the major teams.

Although Manchester United is under pressure from Liverpool and Chelsea to catch up, their results are very good, Ferguson is very confident that he will not change his usual winter transfer strategy, that is, there will be no too hasty purchases in the winter market, but the old man did not say it to death, "Unless we are sure that there is this kind of player that we have been watching for a long time, we will try to sign him." And the Sun pointed out that this player is former Barcelona player Larsson.

Chelsea is now suffering from internal and external troubles, Chelsea owner Abou publicly said that he is not friends with Mourinho, and Mourinho has long been in a stalemate with senior executives, including CEO Kenyon, and after the draw with Aston Villa, the players were criticized by name and intensified the conflict with the players. Jose Mourinho is desperate for someone who can be used as a substitute for John Terry, with The Sun suggesting the Blues are targeting Manchester City's Richards, Portsmouth's Campbell and Championship's Birmingham Upson, while up front and in midfield, the Madmen are hoping to acquire their old men Deco and Valencia's leading goalscorer Villa.

However, Mourinho has a bad relationship with the top management now, and there are rumours that some people want Mourinho to leave Chelsea, if the rumours are true, it may be difficult to buy the players he needs in the winter transfer.

Arsenal has always disliked burning money in the transfer market, Wenger, who majored in economics, pays more attention to cost performance, Arsenal has many problems now, and there are flaws in the front, middle and back, but Wenger has only two targets, namely: Portuguese defensive midfielder Manuel Fernandes who plays in Portsmouth, and Hungarian attacking playmaker Guerra who plays for West Bromwich Albion. The remaining problem is that Wenger only wants to dig into the potential from within, such as bringing 23-year-old defender Eboue into the position to replace Lauren.

Although Liverpool's record is very good, but their bench strength is far inferior to Manchester United and Chelsea, Benitez in order to cope with the upcoming two-line or even three-line and four-line battles, he has begun to plan for a rainy day, planning to bring in defenders Arbeloa and Insua, and defender Mascherano.

The transfer is a matter of mutual affection, you can wait slowly if you don't negotiate properly, negotiate carefully, and wait for the summer transfer if you can't do it, but in the British Isles, the game will not stop at any time, the Premier League matches in 9 days and 4 games have just ended, and the FA Cup and League Cup have kicked off.

The FA Cup, abbreviated as FACup, is the oldest football competition in the world, and every August every year all non-league clubs with basic facilities under the English Football Association begin to play the preliminary rounds of elimination, and the most participants are there

In the 2004/2005 season, 660 clubs competed in the FA Cup. The additional heats are followed by the heats, four qualifying rounds and six official rounds, culminating in the semi-finals and finals. Like the Premier League, teams usually start from the third round.

The FA Cup has a longer history than the League Cup and is more valued by Premier League teams, and the most important in the ranking of the Premier League's general teams and big teams is undoubtedly the League and the Champions League, followed by the FA Cup, then the League Cup, and finally the Community Shield.

Liverpool have always had good luck in cup competitions, but this time their good fortune came to an end when they faced Premier League giants Arsenal in the third round of the FA Cup.

If Liverpool all use substitutes to play, they are likely to be slaughtered by the league's hopeless Arsenal, which will have an impact on Liverpool's morale, but Liverpool, which is not strong on the bench, is really unwilling to fight with Arsenal for an FA Cup game in the devil's schedule.

Manchester United's opponents are a little better than Liverpool, and Aston Villa is also a mid-table team in the Premier League, so how Manchester United will play against Villa is still a problem, but at least Lord Ferdinand dares to put out half of the substitute lineup.

Chelsea, on the other hand, are against amateur side Magsfield, and basically Mourinho will never worry about losing even if he sends his youth team on the pitch.

Ahead of the FA Cup, Rafael Benitez and his coaching staff have been in talks about how the game should be played, as they will play Arsenal in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals three days later, and whether they will give it their all or deal with an errand.

If this problem was put a month ago, Liverpool would definitely have to go all out, because at that time they were 16 points behind Manchester United in the league, basically no hope of winning the championship, but now, he is only nine points behind Manchester United, the hope of winning the league is still there, at this time and the league has no hope of winning the championship can only count on the cup Arsenal desperately is really not cost-effective, after repeated discussions, in the end Benitez still decided to focus on the league and the Champions League, the League Cup and the FA Cup can only be put first, but the premise is not to lose too ugly, Even if it is out, it should be glorious despite defeat.

Benitez reported his plans to CEO Rick Barry and Chairman Morse, and now CEO Rick Barry and Chairman Morse are busy bringing in and selling the team, where is there still the mood to care about so much, all of them said that the team's affairs are in the hands of Benitez himself, and there is no need to ask them.

With the delegation of the chairman and the manager, Benitez boldly sent substitutes on the field in the FA Cup and League Cup, putting all the main players on the bench, and Chen Yu did not even make the squad.

Arsenal has no hope of going all out to play the cup, Liverpool gives up strategically, this comes and goes, the strength is out of the grade, and the fighting spirit Arsenal is obviously stronger, Liverpool is more to play tickets, and finally in the FA Cup and League Cup two games, Arsenal defeated Liverpool 3:1 and 3:0 respectively, and reached the next round of the FA Cup and the League Cup semifinals.

Chelsea and Manchester United comfortably progressed to the fourth round of the FA Cup, while Chelsea also reached the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup.

Liverpool's unserious attitude in the cup has been severely criticized by the FA and reporters, who think that it is a bit risky for Liverpool to give up the cup so easily, because if the league can't catch up with Manchester United, there is a possibility that the four major will be empty in the end, but at the moment Liverpool is too eager for the league, in order to realize the desire to win the league, let alone give up the promotion of the FA Cup and the League Cup, even if it is the final, they are not hesitating, and now they have won the Community Shield and lost the FA Cup and the League Cup, Finally, I can go all out to sprint for the league title and the Champions League.