Among the five major leagues, the Premier League does not have a winter break, because the Premier League has one more League Cup than other leagues, so even if there is no winter break, the Premier League is just as tight as other leagues.

On January 1, 2005, on New Year's Day, the 21st round of the 04-05 English Premier League season kicked off again, and Chelsea visited Anfield to challenge Liverpool!

Following the London derby ten days ago, the match also attracted a lot of attention from all the English media. The reason is just two words: transfer!

In the early hours of this morning, the official websites of Liverpool and Chelsea both announced several player transfers at the same time.

First up is Chelsea, who have signed free agent and former Red Devils captain Roy Keane on an 18-month contract with a £30,000-a-week salary. Such a signing undoubtedly surprised all media reporters, and the coaches of the major teams were red-eyed. And Chelsea's next transfer news makes people laugh and cry.

"Chelsea Football Club has reached an agreement with Atletico Madrid for £13.5 million to bring in Atletico Madrid striker Fernando Torres! And signed a five-year contract with a weekly salary of 90,000 pounds with the player, and the contract break fee reached 90 million pounds! ”

Torres is far less well-known in England than Spain, and although he also represented Spain at Euro 2004, his inaction has not attracted the interest of the discerning English media, and since the official revelation of Chelsea and Atletico Madrid, the major media in England have not hesitated to raise questions.

"The Sun": "Backed by the richest man in Russia, Qiao Cannon does have the capital to squander gold dollars, but I have to say that this yellow-skinned man is irrational and doesn't understand players!" went to the Maldives to play around, and the gentle township corrupted his brain, and took the club's funds as the price of growth, and I really regretted that Chelsea had such a loser! ”

The Guardian: "Joe Cannon has been using all sorts of ways to catch the attention of all shijie fans, and there is no doubt that this winter he chose to fight for a gimmick with huge losing trades!" I heard that Joe Cannon is also interested in Morientes of Real Madrid, Adriano of Inter Milan, Shevchenko of AC Milan......"

Even the "Times" published a lamenting article "No one is perfect, and the cannon is also stupid": "Rooney shines in the European Cup, Torres is unknown; In the first half of the league, Chelsea's Wayne Rooney scored a lot of goals, and Atletico Madrid's Fernando Torres scored only 4 goals! We really can't imagine that such a huge transfer was actually the work of Joe's cannon, who even compared Torres to our great English talent! Think about the summer brings in Rooney, Kaka, Owen, Torres...... Destined to be a stain on Joe's cannon career. ”

The English media focused on Chelsea's transfers, but did not ignore Liverpool's two signings: the £4.5 million transfer of French centre-back Gallas from Chelsea and the £6 million transfer of Spanish striker Villa from Zaragoza.

Villa is not as famous as Torres, and he didn't even qualify for the European Championship a few months ago! Since the media broke the news that Joe Cannon and Benitez had a good relationship, the English media have also been eyeing Benitez, a Spaniard, and taking this opportunity to also lose Benitez again and again! Even Liverpool's "Echo" said that Benitez and Joe Cannon got too close, and he also learned his gambling strategy of only buying Zhengtai and not buying stars!

At 20:45 on 1 January 2005, the match officially began to the cheers of more than 40,000 fans at Anfield. The pre-match press conference was extremely friendly, the game was unusually smooth, and the KOP stands were thunderous with cheers throughout the stadium, but unfortunately they did not see Owen the Son of the Wind again at Anfield.

For this game, the media is not concerned about the win or loss of the game, but the performance of the new signings of the two teams, both of which are forwards imported from Spain, and reporters are eager to compare whether it is Joe's good vision or Benitez's hot vision.

I'm afraid they will never know that bringing in Villa is the advice that Jovan gave to Benitez.

The reason why Qiao Wanxian gave Villa, a cheap striker, to Liverpool instead of being included in the team is mainly because Villa's football style is too similar to Owen and Rooney, and he is short. Torres, on the other hand, is excellent at his feet, his header ability is also top-notch, he can pass and play on his back, he is a representative of the perfect center forward, and he is more suitable for enriching Chelsea's tactics.

In this game, Joe Wanxian used the No. 1 for Frank Lampard, Kaka and Makele, and sure enough, Chelsea's control in the midfield was greatly enhanced, and the attack was like a tide. In the 23rd minute of the first half, Joe Cole cut inside on the right side, Dudek flew to save, Rooney and Kaka doubled the goal, and finally Rooney took the lead to poke the ball in, 1:0.

Liverpool's two-back combination today is still Alonso and Gerrard, such a two-back configuration, so that Benitez feels more and more worried, and then see Makelle's vigorous performance on the field, the edge of Alonso and Gerrard, so that he looks forward to the early arrival of summer, the tiger will be included in the team.

Sure enough, in the 42nd minute of the game, Makelele broke the ball in the middle of the field and went straight to Kaka. The Brazilian shook Alonso, broke through Gerrard, and passed Hyypia with an incredible "Marseille slalom", dangling with his left foot, dunking with his right foot, and then passing Carragher, who had just recovered from injury, after connecting four people, calmly pushed the near corner to score, and completed an incredible goal!

After seeing this goal, Liverpool's commentator Dalglish even commented: "This goal is a combination of Ronaldo, Zidane, and Piero, and the next Brazilian king was born!" ”

Such a goal is hard for football experts to believe that it came from the Premier League! In that arena where the big opening and closing, the shoveling is fierce, and the pursuit of body collision, it is impossible to have such a beautiful picture! This kind of goal scoring can only happen in Spain's heavy offensive and light defense leagues, except for the lower leagues!

Of course, Kaka's goal comparable to that of Ronaldo and Ronaldinho was also thanks to Benitez's pre-match warning to Liverpool players that malicious hurtful actions against Chelsea players were strictly prohibited.

Chelsea made a simple change in the second half, with Joe Cole coming off and Duff coming on. The reporters were a little disappointed, and what they were most looking forward to seeing was Torres on the pitch and then not performing well, so they could have every reason to strongly criticize Joe's cannon.

Chelsea continued to attack in the second half, and in the 65th minute of the game, Kaka took a corner kick and Ramos beat Carragher to score his third goal of the game with a header!

The KOP stands are still hot, sending their most fanatical passion, while the fans in the other stands have begun to leave the stadium one after another. However, they did not show much disappointment, after all, this time Liverpool faced Chelsea, who killed the Red Devils and punished the Gunners, and the strength was too strong.

In the 73rd minute, the crowd erupted in applause as Chelsea's number 14 came on - Roy Keane!

Once upon a time, Liverpool hated the Manchester United captain very much, but now, hearing that he has broken with Ferguson, and even released words to wear the blue shirt to defeat Manchester United, it undoubtedly won the favor of all Liverpool fans and sent the warmest applause.

Sure enough, good intentions are rewarded, this is true!

Within three minutes of the Reds fans applauding Chelsea's Roy Keane, Chelsea's left wing-back Bridge presented them with a big gift. He juggled the ball on the flank, but was cut off by the astute Luis Garcia and found Barosh with a long ball that was rushing forward.

Baroshe's header was crossed to Colwill in the second point, and Colwill met the ball with a furious shot, and in one fell swoop, Liverpool finally scored a goal, and the score became 3:1.

It's just that the commentator on the scene didn't seem too excited, and Dalglish's tone was relatively flat: "This goal mainly came from Bridge's mistake." Chelsea's two centre-backs, John Terry and Cannavaro, were both shijie-level, and I once thought that the 18-year-old Ramos would be the breakthrough in Chelsea's defence, but I watched a few of their games and found that the Spaniard was playing in a decent way, but it was Bridges on the left who made a lot of mistakes. ”

Seeing Bridge's mistake again, Qiao Wan, who was sitting quietly in the coach's seat, sighed quietly: "No wonder he couldn't play the main team at Chelsea in his previous life, and he was also a substitute when he went to Manchester City, and Zuihou could only be reduced to West Ham United and Reading." ”

Boas saw Bridge's clumsy performance, closed his eyes tightly and turned his head, then covered his mouth and whispered to Jowan: "This winter, the position of left back must be supplemented, otherwise this position must be a problem in the Champions League!" ”

Qiao Wanxian sighed, how could he not know this problem, but the position of left back is already scarce, who else can he bring in?

"Which player do you think is better?"

"Huh?" Villas-Boas was startled by the sudden question, then frowned, and said unanswered: "In today's shijie football, the first left-back...... Naturally, it must be Robert Carlos of Real Madrid, well...... Van Brondhorst, Lizarazu and Zanetti are also top performers, and Ashley Cole has unlimited potential, but the greatest left-back is ...... It should still be the man in Milan - Maldini. ”

"Wait...... Wait a minute! Hearing Boas's words, Qiao Wanxian's eyes suddenly lit up, and he suddenly thought of something, and immediately shouted: "Boas, you are wrong, the greatest left-back is not Maldini, but someone else!" ”

"Huh? Bigger than Maldini? ”

Boas's eyes widened, obviously not believing that this shijie had a left-back who was even greater than Maldini.

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