Liverpool and Chelsea's red and blue battle has not yet begun, Mourinho arrogantly shouted that Chelsea will win, although Mourinho is a madman, but he is not a fool, he dares to be so confident, because Chelsea's record in the league against Liverpool is too good, in the history of the Premier League, Chelsea 14 wins, 5 draws and 10 losses, away 3 wins, 2 draws and 9 losses, but since Mourinho took over, Chelsea has won all the last 5 league meetings with Liverpool, 4 of which have kept the door open. The only consolation for Liverpudlians is that in their seven cup meetings with Chelsea, Liverpool have won three, drawn three and lost one, with the only defeat coming in extra-time in the Carabao Cup final.

However, Chelsea had a lot of problems before this encounter, not only internal disagreements, but also the incomparably solid backline suffered a heavy injury blow, first Terry and Bularouse were injured, and when Chelsea sent Liverpool, the third main central defender Carvalho was also injured, which made the already stretched back line even worse.

Before the game, Liverpool goalkeeper Reina said very bluntly, "Now is the worst time for Chelsea. It's easier to beat them at this time than in previous seasons. ”

A reporter from The Sun once asked Benitez what came to mind when he saw the opponent's roster. Was it an instant boost of confidence? 'I was confident when I saw the Liverpool list. Although Benitez cleverly avoided this trapped question, it can be seen from the reporter's questions and Benitez's answer that Chelsea is indeed weak and weak.

But Liverpool will not let go of Chelsea, this is the 100th Premier League appearance of Mourinho and Benitez, two foreign managers who have entered the Premier League together, if Liverpool can win this game, they can not only break the embarrassing history of Benitez's winless league against Chelsea, catch up with Chelsea in the standings, but also surpass the record of 100 wins set by the great manager of the Reds Bill Shankly, in addition, they will also surpass last season's record of 10 consecutive wins, such an important game, It was impossible for the Red Army fighters not to go all out.

Before the game, the Reds were ready to win Chelsea for Rafael Benitez and Liverpool.

Alonso said: "Liverpool have won two of the last three meetings (2-1 in the FA Cup on 23 April and 2-1 in the Community Shield on 13 August), so we are confident of winning the weekend. And a win against Chelsea will close the points gap, which is what we would like to see the most. ”

The Reds leader has never been willing to pass up any chance to get a good result, saying: 'We haven't beaten a top team this season since beating Chelsea and now it's time to fight back. ”

Defender Finnan said: "We've played the most difficult games and now we have to get closer to the team that is leading in front of us. ”

Dutchman Kuyt, who has scored eight league goals, said: "Football is round, although you never know what will happen next, Liverpool are one of the best teams in the world and we can win against any team in the world. ”

Crouch said Liverpool at Anfield were as difficult to beat as the giant Antey, and their ability to draw on the strength of their fans and tradition would allow them to win over their opponents.

The game is very meaningful, the words of the stars are inspiring, and on the Internet and in reality, the battle between Liverpool and Chelsea fans is no worse than that between players, and Chelsea and Liverpool fans curse endlessly on social media and forums, and even make an appointment to use a man's way to resolve the conflict on the day of the game.

The Premier League is the hottest league in Europe, and the English football hooligans are the most notorious football hooligans in the world, and the police are well aware of this, not only making the most detailed security measures at Anfield Stadium in advance, but also arranging police patrols everywhere when Chelsea came to Liverpool to prevent some accidents.

Chelsea are now Liverpool's most annoying team outside of Manchester United and Everton, and Jose Mourinho is the most hated coach by Liverpool fans besides Alex Ferguson.

These fans brought "gifts" such as eggs and tomatoes, and gave them to Chelsea people who did not dare to open or laugh at the windows of their cars.

There were many such fans along the way, and by the time Chelsea's two luxury buses arrived in Liverpool, the windows and roofs of the buses were already in shambles, and some of the windows had been painted with eggs and tomato juice to make it impossible to see the scenery outside.

After getting off the bus at the door of the hotel, Chelsea's big-name players were all pale and very dissatisfied with the "warm" hospitality of the Liverpool fans, and they didn't even go to the Chelsea fans who were really waiting at the door of the hotel, and hurried back to their hotel rooms.

After a short break in the room, Mourinho came out for a press conference, at which Mourinho first lashed out at the Liverpool fans, "They are like a bunch of savage robbers, if it wasn't for the law, I think they would have eaten us collectively, I understand how difficult it will be at Anfield, but we will not be afraid, we have won here before, and we will not make an exception this time." ”

Then Mourinho decompressed his players and didn't let them take their 100 league games too seriously," ...... This is the weakest Chelsea team in 100 games; But I'm still the best coach in the Premier League in these 100 games: 73-9, 20 points ahead of Sir Alex Ferguson, 10 times in the last three, only one defeat to the Red Devils and one defeat to the Reds, even if I lose this time, I'm still the best coach in the Premier League, nothing can change the result, I think we should think more about the good. ”

When Chelsea arrived at Liverpool, Liverpool's players and coaches were still at the Hillwood training base in the west of Liverpool, and they were in the final closed training, this training was to rehearse the lineup and tactics to start when playing against Chelsea, which obviously could not be seen by Mourinho, everyone knows that Mourinho's master of on-the-spot command is a real tactical genius, even Benitez is ashamed of himself, Benitez is better at doing the work before the game, Rather than adjusting in the game, adjustments like the one in the Champions League final against Milan in '05 have been rare in Benitez's career.

Benitez practiced the 4-5-1 and 433 formations in training, the former and 442 formations are the most commonly used by Benitez, but the 433 formation Benitez used very little, and it was only after the arrival of Chen Yu that Benitez began to learn from the old rival Mourinho's formation of play.

The reason why Benitez considered the formation of 433 is mainly that Kuyt and Chen Yu are both sideways and can make Liverpool's tactics more colorful and changeable, not like when Chen Yu did not come, Pennant, Riese, and Finnan were like cross maniacs, more than 20 crosses per game, but there were few goals, and now, because Chen Yu can cut inside and can disrupt the opponent's defense, so in the 433 formation, Benitez arranged the position of winger for Chen Yu.

In the 451 lineup, Chen Yu became a midfielder, serving as a right midfielder, replacing Garcia and Pennant.

Liverpool has Gerrard, Alonso, Sissoko, Mascherano, Luis Garcia in the middle, which is very reasonable from the perspective of ability and their respective characteristics, and can even be said to be strong, with Cendon and Sissoko on the left, basically worry-free, Pennant and Garcia on the right, strong in attack and weak in defense, often need Gerrard to go to the right side to defend in the face of strong opponents, which makes Gerrard often complain, because he prefers to play in the middle, but now there are many good players in the middle, Gerrard is very comprehensive, he can only play on the right side, But after the more comprehensive Chen Yu came, Gerrard could finally return to his favorite middle, with Chen Yu on the right side, whether it was a winger or a full-back, Chen Yu was far stronger than Pennant and Garcia in both attack and defense, and what made Benitez even more satisfied was that Chen Yu had no problem playing left midfield, with such a panacea who did not complain, Benitez felt that he could wrestle with Mourinho on the spot.

Of course, Chen Yu will not complain, after having a star cultivation system against the sky, Chen Yu can win any position on the field, including the goalkeeper, but it is too shocking, so as long as it is not a special situation, Chen Yu will basically choose to play striker and forward, and occasionally make a cameo appearance in the back, but now in this game, Chen Yu still has a gambling task with the madman Mourinho, so Chen Yu asked Benitez for some powers, such as the right to run freely in the front court, and the power to fire infinitely, And Benitez is almost obedient to Chen Yu now, as long as Chen Yu can score, even if he asks for the right to walk on the field, Benitez will not hesitate to agree.

The requirements of full-backs and wingers are different, Chen Yu also did a careful screening when binding the consciousness of the star, and finally he chose the consciousness of French striker Ribery and the consciousness of Chelsea winger Robben, the consciousness of these two people is just able to complete the offensive and defensive tasks assigned to him by Benitez today.

Liverpool in winter is dry and cold, so the game will kick off at 12:45 am, Liverpool's training will only end at half past ten, the team has a 10-minute break, and then has a 10-minute summary meeting, and then got on the team's bus and rushed to Anfield and Chelsea for the second place in the league.