On 26 June, the day before the Ballon d'Or was announced, the 14th round of the Premier League ushered in a heavyweight clash as league leaders Manchester United host Chelsea.

In the first 13 rounds, Manchester United got their best start to the game with 34 points from 11 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat, while Chelsea have only lost one more game than Manchester United and are now in second place by three points, with Arsenal and Liverpool far behind, and this season's league battle is essentially between these two teams.

When two tigers fight, there must be one injury, or even two injuries, but it can never be a win-win situation.

Now is their chance for Liverpool and Arsenal, and if they can take advantage of Manchester United and Chelsea to win the game, they may be able to chase the points a little closer and add a bit of suspense to the league.

Liverpool's opponent in this round is Manchester City, Arsenal's opponent in this round is Bolton, in comparison, Liverpool's opponent Manchester City is a little stronger, and there are more highlights, while Arsenal is playing away, and winning is not an easy task.

The biggest attraction of this match between Liverpool and Manchester City is Chen Yu's comeback.

Since he was injured in the Champions League final on May 18, Chen Yu has been away from the stadium for 6 months and 7 days. The news about Chen Yu's comeback has been coming out three weeks ago, but the fans' expectations have been disappointed every time, and now, Chen Yu is finally coming back, he appeared in the squad for the first time, and head coach Benitez also promised before the game that Chen Yu's injury has healed and may come off the bench to play for a while, but this still depends on the situation of the game.

Chen Yu also said in an interview with reporters that he was ready to play, and he couldn't wait for the game, but Chen Yu also admitted that he couldn't start, and even if he played, he wouldn't play too much, but Chen Yu thought it was already good, and he thought he would wait until next month to play.

In fact, the plan of Benitez and the team doctor is for Chen Yu to return next month, first playing as a substitute for a while, and then gradually increasing the time. However, Chen Yu's performance was too good after participating in the team's joint training, and he couldn't see that he was a person who had returned from injury at all, and he also scored frequently in training, while Liverpool's performance in the league and cup matches was so bad, which made Benitez have to consider the issue of Chen Yu's early comeback, and later after repeated testing and consultation by the team doctor, he finally made the news of Chen Yu's comeback in the game with Manchester City.

"Chen Yu is back!"

The news was sensational, even though this weekend belonged to Manchester United and Chelsea, but the media had to spare a page to introduce the news of Chen Yu's comeback.

"The goal-scoring guy is back! Premier League defenders, are you shaking? ”

This is the arrogant introduction of the Liverpool Echo.

"Six months and ten days, Chen Yu sat on the bench for the first time! It was his first appearance in the Premier League, and on this evening, everyone was speculating whether he would score a goal. This is the Guardian comment.

"If you are a qiē shun lì, Chen Yu is likely to appear on the field, if the game becomes difficult, Chen Yu's appearance is much smaller, but anyway, fans can finally see Chen galloping on the field, it doesn't matter if you score a goal or not, the main thing is to get used to it, we have to give Chen time." The "Times" said more objectively, in fact, the "Times" pointed out that Chen Yu is not helping Liverpool now, but Liverpool is helping Chen Yu.

In the 14th round of the Premier League, in addition to the red and blue battle between Chelsea and Manchester United, Chen Yu's comeback, the Chinese derby between Chen Yu and Manchester City right-back Sun is also a highlight.

Since Sun Hai and Li Ti landed in the Premier League, the "Chinese Derby" has begun to appear in the British arena. On August 31, 2002, Sun Hai and Li Ti staged the first Chinese derby in the Premier League, but due to injuries and other reasons, the Chinese derby has been absent from the Premier League for three years, and now Chinese fans have eyes again, Liverpool's Chinese Chen will and Manchester City's Chinese Sun will stage the Chinese derby again.

Manchester City's Sun Hai has been plagued by a foot injury since the second half of last season, and suffered an ankle injury in training during the summer training camp, missed the team's summer series of games, and played a few games as a substitute at the beginning of the season, in mid-October, Sun Hai recurred from an old injury in training again, and it was not until a week ago that Sun Hai returned from injury, but the main position has been snatched away by the 19-year-old Richards, this game with Liverpool, Sun Hai can only wait for the opportunity to come off the bench like Chen Yu.

The match between Liverpool and Manchester City was the first of the semi-finals, and the game kicked off at 3 pm on the 25th.

With Marcos Alonso, Marc Gonzalez and Pennant injured in the midweek Champions League, Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez replaced them with Hyypia, Cendon and Luis Garcia.

Without Alonso, Pennant and Gonzalez, Liverpool's midfield has declined in possession and tended to play high, more like a traditional English team.

Manchester City has always been a high-flying style of play, they have two high-impact strikers Samaraas and Corradi, these two people have unlimited destructive power, and the substitutes are mostly dexterous players, Cole and Vassell mainly rely on experience and awareness to pick up leaks, and often the goal rate is not low.

Chen Yu sat on the bench and sent text messages, but his eyes were staring at the situation of the game on the field from time to time.

Chen Yu is not talking to others by text, the object of his communication is Sun Hai, who is sitting on the other bench.

Sun Hai and Chen Yu have known each other for a long time, but they don't see each other much, the two are now sympathetic to each other, and Sun Hai is also introducing his experience and lessons to Chen Yu during the healing period.

Sun Hai advised Chen Yu that it was better to recover for a while longer, and not to rush to come back, because he was injured in a row of ligaments in his ankle, and now he has even lost his main position, and it is difficult to say whether he can even continue to gain a foothold in the Premier League.

Chen Yu is the most clear about his condition, his physique is different from ordinary people, and he recovers quickly, now it is only less than a month, he can already practice against his teammates, but Chen Yu is also worried that he can't be eradicated, so he stays in bed for a while.

Chen Yu entered the squad for the first time, and will play the second Chinese derby with Sun Hai, the main player of the Chinese team of Manchester City, after the news was confirmed, almost the entire Chinese fans in England went crazy, they occupied an area at Anfield Stadium, including those wearing Chen Yu's No. 9 jersey, and Sun Hai's No. 17 jersey, although the jerseys were red and blue, but the atmosphere between the fans was very good, they shouted "Chen Yu" or "Sun Hai" from time to time, so that they were singing "You will never walk alone" The Liverpool fans of the team song were taken aback.

The first half was more than intense, but not exciting, and neither side had a few good chances to score, Liverpool's best chance came in the 6th minute, Reina kicked at the back, Dunn's header was wrong, Kuyt's header was crossed, and Crouch's volley from 10 yards went high.

In the first half, Liverpool had 72 per cent possession, seven shots on goal, but did not score a single goal, while Manchester City, despite their poor possession, did have a good chance to score, Corradi's shot from inside the box hit the side-netting, and the net shook to the delight of Manchester City fans.

At the beginning of the second half, Liverpool fans were already very dissatisfied with the poor performance of the strikers, and they chanted Chen Yu's name vigorously, hoping that Chen Yu could play, although they didn't know how much skill Chen Yu still had, but they now thought that changing amateur players would not be much worse than the main team.

Liverpool's on-site commentators are also analyzing the possibility and time of Chen Yu and Sun Hai for fans.

“…… Although Chen has returned from injury, but after all, he has too little run-in with the team, and his body has not returned to his original state 100%, Benitez must be very cautious in his use, if Liverpool leads by a big score, Chen Yu may also have a chance to play, if the game has been so stalemate, Chen Yu is likely to have no chance to play...... Sun Hai and Chen Yu have similarities, they have both been plagued by injuries, and now they have just returned, the difference is that Sun Hai needs Richards, the current main defender, to have some problems, or the right midfielder to have something wrong, so that he can take the opportunity to take the position......"

Despite the shouts of the fans and commentators, Benitez, who was standing next to the coach's box, did not mean to let Chen Yu play at all, but Manchester City's manager Pierce made a substitution adjustment, and in the 55th minute, Sun Hai came on the field and replaced the general right midfielder Wirtbergi.

Seeing Sun Hai on the field, Liverpool fans were even more excited, they stopped singing the team song and began chanting Chen Yu's name to put pressure on manager Rafael Benitez.

Benitez looked at the electronic scoreboard, 60 minutes had passed in the game, and the score was still 0:0, he sighed, looked at the bench, and said in his heart, do you want Chen Yu to play now, Chen Yu will play now, I am afraid that there will be problems if the time is too long, Benitez still decided to continue to believe in Kuyt and Crouch on the field.

At the beginning of the second half, Chen Yu stopped texting, he was watching the game carefully, analyzing the tactical play adopted by Liverpool and the opponent in the game, if he played how to quickly find the opponent's flaws, his playing time will definitely be very short, Chen Yu must enter the state as quickly as possible, so as to have hope of scoring a goal.

But what made Chen Yu feel frustrated was that Chen Yu had been bound to the level of an intermediate superstar in the star acceleration system, and after returning from injury, he was actually demoted three levels in a row, and now he can only bind an intermediate star.