In the fifth round of the league, Liverpool, which took the lead in the game, swept promoted Derby County 6:0, which effectively responded to the outside world's doubts that Liverpool would not score without Chen Yu, and also brought a lot of pressure to the other three giants that followed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Arsenal's opponents are Portsmouth, who are also relatively strong teams, but the Gunners' youngsters are good at playing with the wind, and after winning the previous round, they were in high spirits, beating Portsmouth by three goals with one less player, making it two wins in a row since the start of the game.

Although Manchester United is not in good form, they are gradually starting to recover in the last game, and their opponent Sunderland is actually not bad this time, but Manchester United won 1-0 against Black Cats with Saha's goal, and announced that they have slowly come out of the trough with two small wins.

However, Chelsea, who have always been as stable as dogs, were shocked by Aston Villa, who were defeated by Liverpool in the first round, they could not defend and finally lost 0:2, which was Chelsea's first defeat of the season, and this defeat also allowed them to be thrown away by Liverpool with one game less.

After five rounds, Liverpool are still at the top of the table, and Benitez is very proud of the performance of the strikers, he said in the post-match press conference, "Chen Yu is an indispensable star for Liverpool, his ability to finish games is unmatched in the world, but we don't rely on Chen, without Chen, we also have the ability to score, Kuyt, Voronin and Crouch are all world-class, this season our goal is to defend the double, because we have two main teams, but the happiest thing for me is not to score six goals." , but the backline didn't concede a goal, Hyypia will be available for the next game, and I think Liverpool will become more consistent and stronger. ”

Manchester United won two in a row in the absence of Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo, and the old man Ferguson was still very happy, he said after the game: "In the first half I thought we were too slow to pass, we had good possession, but we didn't create a real threat, we couldn't break down the opposition's dense defence, but victory is the best result, we need to win so much, the next round Ronaldo will be back, Rooney's injury is almost recovering, survive this difficult period, we will return to the attacking power of last season." ”

Arsenal defeated Manchester City in the last round, and defeated Portsmouth in this round, losing two strong opponents in a row, Wenger is very happy, he believes that the current Arsenal has gotten rid of Henry dependence, Fabregas, Rosicky, Walcott and others are growing up very fast, they still have the strength to impact the championship this season, who underestimates Arsenal, they will definitely be slapped in the face.

Chelsea in the semi-finals are the most depressed, after this round, their points were left six points by Liverpool, although one less round, but it always looks so glaring, but after the loss, Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is still stubborn, "Two great teams, played a good game, but there was only one result: Chelsea did not win. We reacted in the last 20 minutes and could have scored a goal. It was a good game, both teams played well and to be fair I think we should have taken one point each. ”

When it comes to the league title race this season, many believe that Liverpool are likely to defend their title this season, but Mourinho thinks the situation will be more intense. "There is a lot of investment in other teams outside of the last four, it will become more common for strong teams to lose and drop points, the sky will not fall after losing a game, other teams have spent a lot of money on players and improved the quality of their squads, Villa is an example of this, and many more. It's going to be more difficult to play against these teams because they're better and the league competition is open, but it's only the first weekend of September, with only five rounds of the season played, and it's too early to talk about the title race, maybe Manchester City or Villa in the end. ”

Although Mourinho doesn't care about winning or losing a game or two, he never dares to take it lightly, Chelsea lost four games last season, and the championship trophy was snatched by Liverpool, and now just five rounds of games, Chelsea lost one, if you are not careful, with Liverpool's state, Chelsea may be very difficult to chase points later.

So after the above humiliating words, Mourinho also said that the next round of games will be extremely crucial for Chelsea, and if they can't win the next round, the pressure on Chelsea will be too great against Manchester United in the seventh round.

Liverpool has high aspirations this season, and the goal is not just the double, so it never wants to have a desperate chase last season, and a situation where it can't be drawn, and now it starts with Arsenal and Manchester United five points away, and Chelsea six points, and Liverpool even better without Chen Yu, sweeping Derby County 6:0, which makes Liverpool morale high and confident, although the next Liverpool opponent is Portsmouth, which is a good strength and two consecutive defeats in a desperate situation, However, Liverpool are very optimistic about winning this game and no one expects them to lose away to Portsmouth.

Not only did the Liverpudlians not think they would lose to Portsmouth, but everyone outside and all the media were also optimistic that Liverpool would beat Portsmouth on the road.

"The Sun" believes that Liverpool has now entered the invincible mode, in addition to the three giants, other teams are simply not enough to create any difficulties for Liverpool, and even some teams have seen the game against Liverpool has not been cowardly, and Liverpool scored a goal and surrendered early, although Portsmouth has the advantage of home and has a certain strength, but it is impossible to stop Liverpool's progress.

The Guardian believes that although Liverpool is now lacking Chen Yu, Wallening can replace Chen Yu's role to a certain extent, whether he cooperates with Kuyt or Crouch, he can have chemistry, and he doesn't know how to deal with strong teams, but it is certainly not a big problem to deal with middle and lower teams.

Even Liverpool's title rivals don't think Liverpool will capsize in the Portsmouth gutter. Arsenal have the strongest opponent in this round of the game, and it is a London derby, Wenger is still full of worries about the game, because he predicts that Liverpool will definitely win the game against Portsmouth, if Arsenal cannot win, it is likely that Liverpool will widen the gap again.

Manchester United and Chelsea's opponents in this game are not weak, they are also worried, and now the three giants are the least five points pulled away by Liverpool, and at this time they are also worried about being pulled away by Liverpool, and it is imperative to win the sixth round of the game.

Liverpool arrived at Fratton Park with the confidence of victory, expecting to take the three points as easily as they had in the previous seven seasons, but the game was difficult and the result was the same.

Against Portsmouth, Benitez fielded almost the exact same line-up as they did against Derby County, with the only change being that Hyypia, who had returned from injury, replaced Arbeloa at cameo centre-back.

This lineup is definitely one or two points stronger than the lineup in the game against Derby, and the strength is strong in defense, in the position of central defender, Hyypia is definitely the first in the Premier League, and Arbeloa can only say that the cameo is just decent.

But such a team that is almost complete except for the lack of Chen Yu, such a team that swept Derby County, which had drawn with Portsmouth, with 6 goals, played very passively in the face of Portsmouth.

Portsmouth haven't won against Liverpool for four years, and although they are playing at home, they are not blindly enough to beat Liverpool, although they have such hopes in their hearts.

The head coach Redknapp is also based on defensive counterattacks in the lineup, and the whole team did not blindly attack because this was their home stadium and there were tens of thousands of fans in the stands watching them, they were based on defense and resolutely waited for the opportunity to play Liverpool's counterattack.

Liverpool played too easily in their last game and lacked the preparation for a tough game against Portsmouth, thinking they could easily win, but they soon found that it was not so easy to pick up points against Portsmouth, and the opponent's defence was simply impregnable, let alone scoring, and even shooting opportunities were rare.

It was Liverpool who shot first and in the fourth minute, centre-forward Crouch returned and new signing Benayoun's right-footed shot from outside the edge of the box on the left was saved by Portsmouth goalkeeper James into the near corner.

However, Portsmouth soon returned the favor, and in the seventh minute, a Portsmouth free-kick was passed into the right side of the box, and Diop's header went just wide of the far corner.

Both sides then fell into a shooting drought and could not open a shot on goal, and it was not until the 19th minute that Liverpool had a shot on goal through a free-kick opportunity, but Gerrard's long-range shot was blocked by James on the sideline.

At this point in the game, the mentality of Liverpool players has been a little unbalanced, they lack patience in both attack and defense, and they want to kill Portsmouth at once, but Portsmouth is very calm, insisting on their pre-game tactical arrangement, ready to slowly grind Liverpool to death.

In the 30th minute of the game, Portsmouth launched a quick counterattack, Kanu took the ball into the penalty area alone, Sissoko and Hyypia defended, they originally entangled Kanu to prevent him from shooting, but Sissoko impatiently pulled Kanu with his hand, and Kanu fell down.

The linesman raised the flag for a foul on Kanu in the penalty area, and referee Riley blew the whistle for a penalty.

The Liverpool players were unhappy with the decision, with Alonso leading the way to argue with the referee and being booked by Riley.

Just when the Liverpudlians were in despair, Liverpool goalkeeper Reyna went into a big swing and saved Kanu's penalty into the bottom left corner with one hand.

Although the penalty did not score hit Portsmouth's morale, Portsmouth did not have much hope in this game, they still maintained a defensive formation steadily, never rushed, and waited for the opportunity to counterattack again.

Although Liverpool's morale was boosted after Reina saved the penalty, they were helpless for a while against Portsmouth's tactics of not getting out of the hole, and could only continue to put pressure on Portsmouth to make mistakes under heavy pressure.

However, Portsmouth was very focused today, with the eleven on the pitch working as one, and even the slightest mistake was immediately made up by team-mates, and Liverpool's players simply could not take advantage of this fleeting opportunity.

The stalemate lasted until 60 minutes when the Liverpudlian began to miss Chen Yu, and in this case, Chen Yu would stand up to solve the problem, break the opponent's door, and turn the pace of the game to his side, but now Chen Yu can only cheer for them from the stands.

Benitez continued to make substitutions for attacking players, hoping to have the effect of substitutions like changing knives, but with Portsmouth's tenacious defense, Liverpool could not get into the penalty area at all, and could only rely on long-range shots to threaten James' goal.

Although long-range shooting is one of Liverpool's tricks, but under the dense defense, long-range shooting can not find a good opportunity, not to mention that Portsmouth is pressing like a mad dog within 30 meters, and Liverpool's long-range shooting cannot change the outcome of the game.

In the 86th minute of the game, Liverpool got the best chance of the game, Gerrard and Pennant combined on the wing, and finally Gerrard crossed the ball to the penalty area on the side of the big penalty area, and Liverpool striker Volenin in the middle of the penalty area outflanked and tackled from 4 yards in front of the goal, but unfortunately the ball was shoveled out of the bottom line by him.

The closest Liverpool came to scoring was a goal-scoring goal, and Liverpool's morale and confidence were completely destroyed, and although referee Riley gave five minutes of stoppage time, Liverpool were no longer able to organise a more threatening attack and could only draw with Portsmouth away from home.