After Chen Yu's goal, there was no suspense in the Merseyside derby, and Liverpool defeated Everton with only 9 men with a small score of 2:1, accumulating 24 points to continue to lead the standings. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liverpool were the first of the big four to start the game, and in the games that followed, the youth Arsenal were impressive, beating Bolton Wanderers 2-0 to win 11 consecutive games in all competitions, and with just one point less than Liverpool, they are serious contenders for the league title.

The Reds and Chelsea match came much later, with Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo scoring twice each to win 4-1 against Aston Villa, one point less than Liverpool.

The match between Chelsea and Middlesbrough has attracted much attention, this is the second game after Mourinho's dismissal, the last 1-0 win over Bolton Wanderers was not convincing, because Chelsea had not been able to win the two previous games with Middlesbrough, this game can see how much money the manager Grant has, and finally Drogba returned to power, Chelsea won Middlesbrough 2:0 without shock, and returned to the title race.

After the game, the major media began to criticize Liverpool for becoming Liverpool's one-man team, thinking that Liverpool stole three points again, and if there was no Chen Yu in this Merseyside derby, maybe Liverpool would lose, Chen Yu made two penalties and two red cards alone, and was a well-deserved derby hero.

Everton goalkeeper Howard has also become a hot figure in the media, reporters and football celebrities believe that in this derby, Howard's performance is world-class, he blocked all Liverpool's sports goals, if it weren't for Chen Yu's magic, the best in this game is Howard, unfortunately his opponent is Chen Yu.

Everton's defender Stubbs's red card also made him one of the focal points after the game, and the media praised and criticized his approach, with The Sun thinking he was stupid, scoring a penalty, and he also lost a red card for nothing, and could not play in the next round, so Everton's loss was not three points; The Times believes that Stubbs is very bloody, although he was sent off and Chen Yu also scored a penalty, but his spirit of never admitting defeat and never allowing the opponent to score will greatly encourage Everton's players and fans, so that they can strive for progress in the following games, which is much more important than his absence from a game.

Although the Merseyside derby is one of the most important derbies in the Premier League, the influence is enough to compare with the Manchester derby, the London derby, the north London derby, etc., but the influence is still very small in the world, after this game, the media quickly turned their attention to the next game.

After the tenth round of the league, the Premier League once again ushered in the main event, Liverpool hosted the strongest challenger Arsenal, this game is a challenge and an opportunity for Liverpool, if you can beat the opponent in the strong dialogue, you can chase the craziest Arsenal away, if you lose to the opponent in such a game, not only the points will be surpassed by the opponent, morale will also be greatly hit.

Liverpool and Arsenal have direct conversations, which is good news for Chelsea and Manchester United, the two tigers must have an injury, no matter who loses, they can catch up with the points, and it is even better if the two teams draw, so that Liverpool and Arsenal will be pulled down two points.

Now that Liverpool and Arsenal are both strong and in hot form, it will be a blessing for the fans to meet them at this time, and the game is destined to be very exciting.

Although the media has now begun to hype up this big club conversation, there is also a Champions League group stage in the middle of the week of the 10th and 11th round of the league, this Champions League match Liverpool will go to Istanbul, Turkey, as we all know that the atmosphere of Turkish football is very frenetic, no worse than Anfield, and the home stadium Inani Stadium is also known as the hell stadium. And Arsenal's game is at home, the opponent is the Czech Republic weak team Prague Slavia, it takes almost no effort to win, the 11th round of the league against Liverpool, Arsenal is almost equal to waiting for work, which is also the most disadvantageous place between Liverpool and Arsenal.

Before going to Istanbul, there was also a discussion in Liverpool's camp about how to play this game, and the focus of the discussion was what attitude and what kind of lineup to play this game.

Now Besiktas has lost two consecutive games in the group stage, if one more loss, then not only there is no hope of qualifying from the group, but even the League Cup has no chance to play, this game Besiktas will definitely use the home advantage to go all out, when the battle is life and death.

However, Liverpool's current situation in the group is not the best, if they want to win the group, it is necessary to beat Besiktas, otherwise it is dangerous to win the first place in the group, and there is even a possibility of losing the second.

However, they want to win Besiktas away from home without having to go through too much attrition in order to prepare for the big game against Arsenal at the weekend, so they will have to find a way to get the best of both worlds.

If you want to have the best of both worlds, you can only adopt rotation tactics to let some of the main players rest and prepare for the weekend league, but the rotation tactics are risky, if you can't win the weakest Besiktas in the group away, then even if you can win Arsenal at the weekend, it will not be considered a success, and if you can't win Liverpool on the weekend, the rotation will become a joke.

After detailed analysis and rehearsals, Liverpool finally decided to rest Alonso, Kuyt, Reese, and Benayoun in rotation, and the other main players went to Istanbul to play the Champions League group stage with the returning Gerrard and Ager.

What kind of land was the capital of the ancient Eastern Roman Empire for the Red Army Liverpool?

Non-Liverpool fans will surely say that this is the blessed land of Liverpool, and it is here that the fifth Champions League trophy in the history of the Reds was won, which is also the biggest honour that Liverpool has won before Chen Yu's future.

But familiar Liverpool fans know that this is not only a blessed place for Liverpool, but also a sad place for Liverpool, who have met local Turkish teams three times without winning a single one in this ancient city.

Now that they are in Istanbul for the fourth time, will they be able to break this embarrassing record this time?

With such doubts in mind, the Liverpool players arrived at 11 a.m. in the cosmopolitan city known as "older than time" across Asia and Europe.

Liverpool's rivals, Besiktas, based in Istanbul's Besiktas district, are one of Turkey's most famous teams, having won 13 league titles, behind Galatasaray and Fenerbahce in Turkey.

Besiktas is a multicultural area, one of the most densely populated and ethnically diverse areas of Istanbul, which has retained a bit of a village and town in the process of urbanization, making it feel like Istanbul is old, a kind of dilapidated that cannot be washed away by any number of high-rise buildings.

After getting off the plane, breathing in the salty and wet sea breeze from the Sea of Marmara, and seeing the black crowd of pick-up, the spirits of the Liverpool players were lifted, they thought that this was the vanguard of Liverpool fans or local Liverpool fans, but they soon found that they were more than half wrong, and more than half of the crowd who came to pick up the airport were opponent fans.

Liverpool is not without the situation of opponent fans coming to provoke, but Besiktas is not another team, French magazine once rated a ranking of the world's most fanatical and extreme fans, the top three were rounded by Turkish teams, namely Galatasaray fans, Fenerbahce fans and Besiktas fans, such a group of fans to pick up the airport, Liverpool's players are scared, do not know what will happen later.

Just when the Liverpool players hesitated, a lot of police and security guards suddenly appeared in the stadium, it turned out that the airport police knew that the fans of Besiktas were coming to make trouble, and they specially sent people to maintain order and escort the Liverpool players out of the airport.

Looking at the presence of the police, the Liverpool players felt a lot more relieved, and were ready to say a few words to the Liverpool fans and reporters who picked up the airport, but they soon discovered that they had overestimated the deterrent power of the Turkish police, and the fans of Besiktas still angrily spewed trash talk at them and threw debris, even if the police arrested people.

The Liverpool players felt it would be dangerous to stay here for a minute longer, and when the bus from the club arrived, they immediately boarded the bus back to the hotel.

After returning to the hotel, Benitez immediately held a team meeting and gave the players an order not to leave the hotel casually, and the fans in Turkey are so fanatical, if something happens to the players to go to a nightclub or something, the negative impact on the team will be too great.

After the team meeting, Benitez took Gerrard out for a press conference to meet with the media and fans about the current situation of the team that fans and reporters were eager to know.

'Istanbul is a special place, I'm sure everyone associated with Liverpool recognises that, for Liverpool Istanbul is iconic, it's an important part of the team's history, coming to Istanbul again, we're still here for the title, but this time we have another mission, which is to break the embarrassing record of never winning against a Turkish team here."

“…… We are not in a very good position in Group A now, we have the same points as Porto, just one more point than Marseille, if we want to win the group we have to beat Besiktas here, of course, it is not an easy thing to do, in this city, the Turkish team will burst out with amazing fighting power, they have this atmosphere, the home fans are very frenetic, we have experienced this when we were at the airport, but we are not afraid of any provocation. We will respond to everything with our performance on the pitch...... Our players are not cowards! ”

Benitez blamed the Besiktas fans and gave a tough counter-attack.

Gerrard was back on the pitch for the first time since his crash and he said: "Although Besiktas have lost two in a row, they are by no means a fish belly, he is a quality team, it will be difficult for any team to beat them here, and now they are in danger, they are on the verge of despair, they will definitely fight for this game, we have to take this game very seriously...... I'm fully fit enough to play at any intensity and I'm hungry for it, so it's up to the coach to see if I'll be able to play tomorrow night. ”

In the afternoon, Liverpool went to Inani Stadium for two hours of training, Liverpool said that this was a closed training and did not want anyone to come to watch, but the management of Inani Stadium did not act in accordance with Liverpool's requirements, and still allowed fans to enter the stadium to watch.

At Besiktas' press conference later, Besiktas' manager Sagram also expressed his views on the game, saying: "The past month has been the most painful month for Besiktas, we have suffered consecutive defeats in the Champions League and the league, the Champions League is on the sideline, the fans are disappointed with us, and now we have the strongest opponent in the group stage, Liverpool, many people think we lost this game, no one thinks we will win, but I want to admit defeat, Besiktas is also a team with a great history, in this land where the Liverpudlians have never picked up a single three points against us, why should we be afraid of them, are Galatasaray and Fenerbahce greater than us? Can't we do what they've done...... Rustu has been in pre-match training and he is available for the game now, he is important for us, but Arikán is also good enough to keep goal for Besiktas, Catinho's return is good news, but we have to be careful with him, we have good strikers like Bobo, Oscan and Delgado, we don't risk using Catinho...... Whoever plays, we have to win this game and we have to win it, otherwise we have to leave the great Champions League......"

Sagram said very sensational, especially with Galatasaray and Fenerbahce to stimulate Besiktas's fans and players, maybe Besiktas still has some fear of Liverpool, maybe Besiktas and Liverpool don't have any grudges, but Besiktas's fans and players definitely don't want to behave worse than Galatasaray and Fenerbahce, and Liverpool's game, Besiktas's fans and players will definitely burst out with unprecedented combat effectiveness, although Liverpudlians attach great importance to this game, But because of the big club clash with Arsenal at the weekend and their ignorance of Turkish football history, they certainly don't know what kind of team they will face tomorrow night or what kind of fans they will face.