Just a day after Qin Xiong broke Gerd Muller's once-stinkled record for goals of the year, Liverpool had even greater good news.

Defending champions Liverpool have won the league halfway point!

At the same time, they reached the top of the standings for the first time this season!

The first was a match at Old Trafford on the same day, 31 December, when United hosted Blackburn Rovers.

It's Ferguson's birthday at the same time!

It was on the birthday of the lord that Manchester United created a shocking upset at home!

In the final game of the Premier League at the end of 2011, Manchester United failed to score all three points on the league's vice-president Blake himself, and although he relied on Berbatov's two goals to temporarily equalize the score in the case of 0-2 down, he was finally killed by the opponent, which can be described as the biggest upset in the Premier League in the past 20 years, and also made Lord Ferguson's 70th birthday very uneasy.

However, another surprise in the game on the night before was Rooney, Ferguson did not plan to send Rooney on the field at all, and the latter did not even come to the bench! Could it be that the old lord is too light on the enemy? Definitely!

According to the Daily Mail, in fact, the Red Devils' star was severely punished by Ferguson, Lu Xiaopang left the team without permission on Boxing Day, that is, the night of Manchester United's game against Wigan, and took his wife Colleen to have a happy dinner outside, which blatantly ignored the team rules "The club prohibits going out on the night of the game" made Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson very unhappy, and also gave the latter the idea of hiding Rooney.

The Daily Mail also revealed that Rooney's teammates Evans, Gibson and their respective female companions were also present at the dinner.

However, the matter is not over here, in the next day's Manchester United training session, Rooney, Evans and Gibson brought the "happy atmosphere" of the previous night to the training ground, and even discussed the events that night, which made the already unhappy Ferguson furious, and Rooney, the "leading brother", was directly called to Ferguson's office to feel a "hair dryer" reprimand.

According to the Daily Mail, Rooney, who was scolded for a beating, was also told that he would not play in the game against Blackburn Rovers and would be subject to a hefty £200,000 fine from the club.

At the same time, the next day, the whole Manchester United team was on vacation, and Gibson, Evans and Wayne Rooney were ordered to practice by the iron-fisted Lord Fernandes.

Reprimands, additional training and a huge fine made Lu Xiaopang in the center of the storm very dissatisfied, and the Manchester United striker felt that he had been treated unfairly, so Rooney protested to the old coach Alex Ferguson, and a fierce conflict broke out between the two

Of course, from Keane, Stam to Beckham, no one can challenge Ferguson's absolute authority, no matter how famous he is, no matter how bright the halo above his head shines, Ferguson is the king here, Rooney's disobedience and protest can only be in vain, and Rooney had no choice but to appear in the stands at Old Trafford in this game against Blackburn.

In fact, the contradiction between Rooney and Ferguson is not the first time that it has erupted, far from a season ago, Rooney was deeply involved in a transfer turmoil, it is said that Lu Xiaopang's move at that time was also strongly dissatisfied with the old faction led by Scholes, and now how Rooney's "dinner door" ends, whether the Red Devils' star will want to be swept away by the old lord like Beckham and Stam, this has become unknown.

Ferguson himself did not want to escalate the situation further, and the lord explained Rooney's absence: "Rooney's training this week has not been systematic, he hasn't trained much in recent days. So I think he'll be able to recover today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, and he's probably a little too tired. ”

Although Ferguson defended Rooney in front of the media, according to other grapevines, Ferguson himself complained to his cronies that Rooney's professionalism is far less than that of several superstars in the world, which is also an important reason why Rooney, the supernova who became famous in 2004, cannot compete with Ronaldo, Messi, and Qin Xiong at his peak age, and even get farther and farther away from them!

Ferguson was very disappointed with this!

Manchester United caused a shocking upset when they lost the third game of the Devil's fixture.

A day later, Manchester City's other side were even more jaw-dropping, and they also caused a shocking upset.

At the Stadium of Light, Roberto Mancini's team bombarded more than 30 shots and failed to knock on Sunderland's goal, but instead Sunderland staged a controversial strike in injury time!

Manchester City both lose at the same time!

Liverpool took advantage of the fishing and overtook the top of the standings in one fell swoop!

Because of South Korean killer Ji Dongwon's offside goal, Manchester City lost 0:1 to Black Cat Sunderland at the Stadium of Light.

After the game, the furious Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini did not blame the referee on duty, Kevin Fred, who had clearly misjudged in his post-match press conference, instead focusing more on his team's own performance. He felt that the team did not make the most of their chances and that the slackness of the defensive end led to the defeat.

'I'm very disappointed that we had a lot of chances in the second half. We didn't score, but we shouldn't have lost a game like this. In the last 10 minutes we gave them two or three chances on goal and each time it was dangerous. A strong team doesn't deserve to lose a game like this. Sometimes, the game will be tough, but even if you can't win, you shouldn't lose. You have to work hard to defend. Sometimes it's enough to put in seven players to attack, because if you put in more, you risk being beaten back like we did. In the second half, the team performed much better than before. We had to win the game, although it was tough. ”

Mancini also said he still has to play the rest of the game: "Now we have to focus on the next game. We have to play the second game within 48 hours. We had a big chance to get past the rest of the table but the league is still a long way to go and we still have 19 games to play. We have to score another 45 points. ”

There was also a big upset result at Stamford Bridge in this round, Chelsea lost 1-3 at home to Aston Villa, Di Matteo's side were more than enough to fight back, but when they had to attack and be counter-attacked by their opponents because they couldn't win games in a row, it was another story!

Arsenal were fortunate to win 1-0 at home to Queens Park Rangers thanks to Robin van Persie's strike to secure a top-four Champions League spot.

After 19 rounds of league matches, Liverpool won the halfway title.

The standings are as follows.

Liverpool 46 points.

Manchester City 44 points.

Manchester United 44 points.

Arsenal 36 points.

Chelsea 34 points. (To be continued.) )