The club is about to be sold and the team is facing a derby battle, at this time, both the coach and the players hope to win the favor of the new club with a wonderful performance, and they are also eager to beat Everton and avenge the 0:3 defeat in the first leg.

As with every derby before, the stands at Anfield today were filled with Liverpool fans, with huge banners and slogans hung up by major fan groups, the most striking of which was the ten-metre-long banner of the Shankly Soul group, which read: "No three goals is not a victory".

Obviously, the mood of the fans is the same as that of the players and coaches, they are all revengeful, and they can't wait to pour seven or eight goals at Everton to solve their hatred.

In this mentality of being eager for revenge and eager to show Xiàn, Benitez discharged a 433 very aggressive formation, this formation has only been used three times this season, two times to play relegation teams, and one to play Chelsea, which lacks a central defender, although the effect is very good, but 433 is not a commonly used formation for Liverpool, and the players are not very familiar with this style of play. This arrangement is debatable. ”

Everton manager David Moyes was confused when he saw Liverpool lining up with a 433 formation and Chen Yu not retreating to midfield, and he told his assistant coach: "What kind of trick is Benitez playing, what is he doing with us?" Chelsea or Watford? ”

The assistant coach smiled wryly: "It looks like Watford, they are now 12 wins in a row, which is crazy." ”

Moyes sneered: "Just these people, let's put up a fence and see what tricks they can play." ”

Compared with Liverpool, Everton's goal at Anfield is very pragmatic, a draw is good, anyway, there is a 3:0 bottom in the first leg, even if this game is a small loss, it is not an unacceptable result, under such a guiding ideology, Moyes is a solid 451 formation, and the front line only sent Andy, who scored twice in the last derby. Johnson, while Colwill, known as Liverpool's nemesis, stood behind Johnson.

After the start of the game, Liverpool took the lead in attacking from the wings, wingers Chen Yu and Bellamy, two fast horses from the left and right sides of the attack, constantly hoisting the ball to Everton's penalty area, hoping to quickly break the deadlock with the help of Crouch's high point.

Although Everton is determined to defend greatly, they are not familiar with Chen Yu, what they see on the video and what they have experienced will definitely not be the same, before the game, Moyes made a foul to contain Chen Yu's tactics, but in the actual game, the defenders were shocked to find that it was not so easy for them to foul, because Chen Yu's speed was too fast.

In the second minute of the game, Chen Yu broke through along the side with the ball at high speed, Osman and Lescott both intercepted and chased, Osman thought that Chen Yu would slow down when approaching left-back Lescott, and then he gave Chen Yu a hard time when he tackled from behind, so that this Chinese knew what a derby was, but he didn't expect Chen Yu to slow down, without any temptation, directly the ball was too fast to eat England's talented defender Lescott.

Osman pounced, Lescote had already made a defensive move, leaning sideways towards Chen Yu, but he felt that his speed was impossible to turn around and catch up with Chen Yu, so he immediately reached out to pull Chen Yu, wanting to use a foul to stop Chen Yu's breakthrough, but his hand only caught the corner of Chen Yu's clothes, because Chen Yu's speed was too fast, he didn't grasp it, and could only watch Chen Yu fly past him like a gust of wind.

Chen Yu broke through on the wing and crossed the ball into the box to find his center Crouch.

Everton's central defenders are not slow and experienced, when Chen Yu broke through on the side, they kept following Crouch, when Chen Yu crossed, the two used their bodies to pinch Crouch, did not let Crouch fully jump, Chen Yu's pass did not touch anyone, and flew directly out of the sideline.

In the fourth minute of the game, Everton counterattacked quickly, Cahill went along the wing to Liverpool's half, and in the face of Rise's interception, Cahill cut and Filip. Neville pulled down the wing, the two crossed positions, Neville broke down the flank and crossed the ball to Liverpool.

At this moment, Gerrard followed Cahill to the penalty area, and when he was scrambling for position, the Reds captain had more strength and experience, he squeezed Cahill aside, and made a flying tackle to shovel the ball out of the bottom line, but he couldn't touch the ball in the right position, and the ball was shoveled by him to the post and bounced towards Cahill.

Seeing this scene, the Liverpudlian was so frightened that he almost had a heart attack, but fortunately the distance was too close, Cahill did not react, and the ball hit his leg and rolled out of the bottom line.

The last derby Liverpool was extremely unlucky, almost sent the opponent two goals, this game had good luck at the beginning, the opportunity to give the opponent in vain, Cahill, known as the Red Army's nemesis, did not seize it, which made Liverpool courage and confidence come up together, and then Liverpool continued to strengthen the breakthrough cross on the side, intending to use the trick of killing Chelsea to deal with Everton.

However, Benitez's move is a bit of a sword, Everton's defense has always been strong, the season that reached the semi-finals, Everton relied on defense, they were nicknamed Toffee, but many fans called Everton kraft candy, describing their defensive tenacity.

In this game, Everton's two central defenders Stubbs are experienced, Yabo is black and hard, Lescott, who serves as a fullback, also has a strong header ability, and Liverpool's center Crouch is very tall, but not strong, and it is not easy to break the goal guarded by American goalkeeper Howard by a simple bottom cross.

Look at the effect of the cross on the side, and Chen Yu due to the increasing resistance on the side, the game played for about ten minutes, Liverpool strengthened the long-range shot in the middle, Alonso, Gerrard, Risese three people in Everton's big penalty area in front of the side of the return pass or horizontal pass shot randomly, trying to pull Everton's defenders out of the penalty area, but Everton's American goalkeeper Howard reacted very quickly, Liverpool's long-range shot within the range of the goal frame was easily captured or saved by him, It didn't pose much of a threat to Everton's goal.

Judging from the field, Liverpool completely controlled the situation, the attack was lively, and there were a lot of shots, the opening played almost 20 minutes, Everton did not have a chance to shoot, but Liverpool's attack did not have a real must-score goal, which reflected Liverpool's mentality of impatience in attack, did not have the patience to organize a delicate offensive, and only wanted to score through simple and direct long passes and long shots.

Seeing the lack of attack on the field, Benitez frowned and began to consider whether to move Chen Yu from the winger position to the forward position, and use Chen Yu's speed and changeable skills to tear apart Everton's defense.

However, before Benitez could make a decision, the shape of the pitch changed, and Liverpool suddenly launched a clever attack on the wing.

Chen Yu played a wall-hitting two-one-one with fullback Finnan on the side, but Fennan did not cross after going down, but passed back to the front of the penalty area to find Alonso inserted in the midfielder, Alonso was about to shoot from a distance, found that Chen Yu was inserted into the penalty area from the ribs, he directly hung to Chen Yu, Chen Yu was extremely fast, Howard did not touch the ball when he attacked, and was put into the goal by Chen Yu.

Just when Chen Yu raised his arms to celebrate his debut goal in the derby game excitedly, he found that there was no movement in the stands, and his teammates did not come to celebrate, he subconsciously stopped and glanced at the side, and sure enough, the linesman had raised the flag.

"!" Chen Yu flew up and kicked on the post, in the opening twenty minutes, he played very hard, the Everton team did everything to his defense, not to mention small actions, there are a lot of hurtful big moves, is it easy for him to score a goal? It was blown offside.

Benitez on the sidelines also angrily appealed to the fourth official, he thought that Chen Yu's insertion was not offside, but Chen Yu's speed was too fast, and it looked like he was offside, but the linesman's decision has been made and it is impossible to change it, Benitez just vented, hoping that the next penalty can be beneficial to Liverpool, seeing that the referee asked him to return to the coach's seat, Benitez could only give up stupidly.

Although Liverpool's goal was ruled offside, the score on the field did not change, but this changed Benitez's decision, he was going to let Chen Yu play in the middle of the midfield, and now Benitez feels that the pre-match tactical arrangement is correct, and he should be patient, so he decided to let Chen Yu continue to play on the side, rather than changing the style of play.

However, it turned out that Benitez's decision was not correct, Benitez wanted to create a situation of more strong attacks in the front, but the players rarely played this formation, and there was no good way to run and respond, the Reds players just blindly used the strong, and lost the ability to read the game, resulting in a situation that was swarmed in one direction, which greatly reduced the defensive pressure on Everton.

The effect of the cross from the side is not good, Liverpool will take a long shot to make up for it, but Liverpool has too many long-range shooters, Lisse, Gerrard, Alonso, Ag, all have the ability to shoot a long shot, everyone goes to shoot from a distance, without the deadly passes and destructive assaults of the midfielders, they can't destroy Everton's defense, and they can't open the air, Liverpool looks beautiful with three strikers, but they are all submerged in Everton's defense of as many as nine or eight people and can't play a role, until the end of the first half, Liverpool, who dominated the game, were also unable to breach Everton's defence.