After the 22nd round of the game against Middlesbrough, Liverpool's deterrence in the middle and lower reaches of the team was established again, the middle team has no desire, no intention to fight to the death with Liverpool, the relegation team thinks that their strength is too weak, even if they fight to the death or eventually lose, it is better to retain the strength to fight the team that is likely to score points, so Liverpool's next few games are relaxed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the 23rd round of the league against Aston Villa, Liverpool easily won the game 3:0.

This round of Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal are also facing weak teams, and they have all won three points, but Chelsea only won 1:0 in the face of Birmingham, and the fatigue is already very obvious, and Arsenal is still up and down after the winning streak was terminated, although this round of big wins over Fulham continues to pressure Manchester United, but Liverpool still does not regard them as the number one enemy, in the hearts of all Liverpudlians, the stable Manchester United is the most difficult opponent.

In the fourth round of the FA Cup, the Premier League champion Liverpool faced the amateur team Havant, this is a game that will not have any suspense, but no one would have thought that Havante played well, although he lost the game in the end, but a group of security guards, drivers, engineers Havante actually scored two goals at Anfield, and finally lost only 2:5, even if Liverpool only sent less than half of the main force to participate in the game, but this also made Havante famous in the British Isles.

Liverpool took advantage of this round of the FA Cup, because Chelsea, Arsenal, and Manchester United were drawn from Premier League teams, although they also won and advanced, but the physical strength consumed was far greater than that of Liverpool.

In the 24th round, Liverpool faced the challenge of the axe gang West Ham United, although West Ham United did not want to admit defeat easily, but after Liverpool scored two goals in the opening ten minutes, they could only surrender their guns.

Not to be outdone, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal won this round, but Chelsea was still weak in attack, only beating Reading 1-0.

At the end of the 24th round of the league, the European winter transfer window is about to end, after nearly a month of operation, Liverpool's transfer has finally come to fruition, because Liverpool is really short of money, in the winter transfer, Benitez did not get a penny of support from the club, and finally only sold the back strength of the back Sissoko, bought the Czech international Skrtel, Sissoko's transfer income is 11 million euros, and Skrtel only spent Liverpool 7.5 million euros, speaking of which, Liverpool not only did not invest, Instead, he earned 3.5 million euros.

For such a transfer, Benitez must be very dissatisfied, although the team has a back Mascherano and Alonso, Gerrard also occasionally plays in the back, Chen Yu can also make a cameo in the back when he has to, but that is not a regular configuration after all, in Benitez's heart, when he needs to do it brutally, Sissoko is even better than Alonso, but Benitez has no way, he is short of people, he needs money, there are few substitutes in other positions, and even if it is sold, it is estimated that it will not be sold at a good price, It is impossible to buy a good defender, and in the trade-off, Benitez still put Sissoko on the transfer list.

Originally, Sissoko sold 11 million euros, Benitez was very happy, he felt that if the club could scrape together a little more money, he would win his favorite Aimar and Ivanovic in one fell swoop, but Benitez never expected that the team did not pay a penny in the end, nor did he buy Ivanovic, who was in the prime of life, but bought a Czech defender Skrtel, although the Czech international was also good in training, but his age was too young, that is, his combat power was not enough, it was difficult to say how much better than Hyypia, If you want to talk about potential, Benitez prefers to buy Richards, but Benitez has no choice, he can only report his thoughts, as for which player to buy, it is not up to him to decide.

Benitez is different from Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger, these two have transfer power at the club, they can buy whoever they want, as long as the transfer funds are provided above, so they are called managers, and their coaches are called coaches.

Benitez has always wanted to get the same power as Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger and Benitez, which undoubtedly deprived team manager Rick Barry of power, so the contradiction between the two has become increasingly acute.

In the winter transfer, Benitez originally wanted to replenish the team's blood, but he didn't expect that one in and one out, not only did not succeed in replenishing blood, but it could be regarded as blood loss, which really made Benitez very helpless and angry.

Liverpool is a typical example of a failed winter transfer, and other Premier League teams have not made much move, Chelsea, who has spent a lot of money in previous years, only spent 20 million euros to buy Anelka in the winter transfer to enhance his attacking power, but Anelka is already the target of the winter transfer.

Although Chelsea no longer burns money, Chelsea's investment is still the highest in the Premier League, and the name of the local tycoon is well deserved, in addition to Anelka for 20 million euros, they also spent 12 million euros to sign Serbian defender Branislav Ivanovic, and another 4.5 million euros to recruit 18-year-old Argentine teenager Di? Santo.

Abu's spending on the winter transfer this time is in stark contrast to the stinginess of former manager Jose Mourinho in the same period last year, and it also confirmed the rumors that Mourinho and Abou had contradictory conjectures when Mourinho was out of class.

Manchester United, like Liverpool, have signed just one man, with the Red Devils signing the little-known Angolan international Manuccio in place of the injured Saha, for an undisclosed fee.

Arsenal look happy with the current state of their squad, with Arsene Wenger making no imports, simply reclaiming Swiss centre-back Deyoro on loan from Birmingham.

In addition to the big four, Tottenham continued their fine tradition of showcasing the club's financial strength through the transfer market, and after spending 50 million euros on the star in the summer, they spent another 27 million euros this winter because of the poor results, but all invested in defenders. The €10.8 million signing from Myburgh isn't the most expensive, as their signing of Hutton from Glasgow Rovers is worth a whopping €12 million; They also signed 18-year-old Welsh right-back Guentel from Cardiff for €4.2 million.

The teams in the middle of the Premier League standings are basically without desire and have no movement in the transfer market, only a few teams that are struggling with relegation, such as Fulham, Wigan, Sunderland, Derby County and other teams, have signed 4 or 5 players in a row in order to achieve a comeback in the remaining three months, like the promoted Birmingham City spent 9 million euros for Everton's winger McFadden, and Derby County is even more hungry, they signed Laurent, who has been unemployed for more than half a year, for free? Robert, the former Newcastle left winger, is almost 33 years old.

The Premier League's winter transfer costs are modest, but they are still the most active in the transfer market due to the Premier League's better economic climate.

La Liga is the most deserted, and last year Real Madrid signed Gago, Higuain, Marcelo and other youngsters in the winter, and this time they did not have any tricks. The rest of La Liga's teams have also made no moves, most of them have chosen to promote young players from the second team, and the total amount of players they have brought in is less than 30 million euros.

The Serie A winter transfer market is a bit sluggish due to Inter Milan's dominance in the league, and if it weren't for Juventus' €11 million signing of Malian midfielder Sissoko from Liverpool, they might not have spent even €40 million.

Although the Bundesliga clubs are relatively poor, their total cost of bringing in players this winter has caught up with the Serie A teams, exceeding 40 million euros, although many transfers are hundreds of thousands, but because most clubs are involved in this market, their total spending is also more than La Liga clubs have invested this winter.

Due to the sluggish transfer market, competitors except for Chelsea, which is more behind, do not spend much, although Benitez is angry, but he did not vent to the media, after all, the team's performance is not bad, Benitez does not want to spoil the current atmosphere, for him, the record is his capital to compete with Rick Barry.

Round 25 was the first game after the winter transfer window closed, this round Chelsea away to Portsmouth, who have been in the limelight recently, Chelsea, who spent the most money on transfers, really taught fans that money does not necessarily lead to victory, and Chelsea broke the deadlock with Anelka's goal, but were pressed by Portsmouth all the time, and were equalised by Portsmouth in the last moments, losing two points.

Manchester United travelled to Tottenham, the second-most expensive transfer spenders in the winter, and Tottenham were in good form, leading United by one goal at home until the final minute of stoppage time, but Tevez's 94-minute goal finally caused Tottenham to lose the three points in frustration.

Arsenal didn't spend a penny on winter transfers, but they have always been surprising in the league, with this group of young men, beating Manchester City 3-1 away to temporarily overtake Liverpool and move to the top of the table.

Old rivals Manchester United and Chelsea were forced to draw by their opponents, and Arsenal won with the same number of points, which is both an opportunity and a danger for Liverpool, as long as they can win the black cat Sunderland, they can continue to lead the Premier League, and can also open up a four-point gap between the henchmen Manchester United.

Obviously, Liverpool's successive big scores frightened Sunderland, and seeing that there was no possibility of winning at Anfield, Sunderland restrained himself after a little resistance and gave the three points to Liverpool.

Defeat Sunderland made Benitez and Liverpool's players and fans breathe a sigh of relief, this game is very critical for Liverpool, the next round, that is, the 26th round of the league, Liverpool will start a championship battle with Chelsea, originally in Liverpool's state, away from home may not be afraid of Chelsea, but after twenty-five rounds, Liverpool has surpassed Chelsea by 7 points, if Chelsea loses this game again, it is almost certain that Chelsea will be out of the championship battle, so this game Chelsea must fight to the end, Against a devastated Chelsea, no team dares to say the win.

However, the biggest difficulty for Liverpool is that their ace scorer Chen Yu will return to China to play the World Cup qualifiers three days before the match against Chelsea, and Chen Yu will fly 20,000 kilometers back and forth in this game.

Although Benitez and the club hope that Chen Yu can give up this national team game, but this can't be said, Chen Yu has not entered the national team for so many years, and now he has just decided to go back, obviously Chen Yu has decided to make some achievements in the national team, with Chen Yu's age, he should indeed perform in the national team, otherwise he will not have time, Chen Yu has helped Liverpool win a league championship and the Champions League, Benitez and Liverpool club management can only acquiesce to Chen Yu's flight of thousands of miles.

This round of the game due to Manchester United was unexpectedly forced to draw by Tottenham, and Chelsea was also drawn by Portsmouth, which gave Liverpool a lot of buffer space, leading Manchester United by 4 points and Chelsea by 7 points, so that even if Liverpool lost to Chelsea in the next round, they can still not fall behind in the title race.