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Reversal at home to win.

After many years, Liverpool reached the Champions League final again.

And advancing to the Champions League final also gave Liverpool the opportunity to strive for the Treble this season.

The English League Cup that was won earlier, the Premier League title that was won with a high probability, and the Champions League title that will be determined in the next game.

Liverpool needs a wave of championships to lay the groundwork for the return of their own "red dynasty".

Before the Champions League final, Liverpool will devote themselves to the league.

In the last two rounds of the Premier League, Liverpool has a huge initiative in the championship with a two-point lead and a goal difference advantage.

However, before Liverpool played, there was good news.

In the first thirty-seventh round of the Premier League game, Chelsea, who played away, was blocked by West Bromwich Albion.

The home team took the lead in the first half with a long-range goal, and relied on an efficient counterattack in the second half to score two goals again. In the end, they defeated Chelsea 3-1 and changed directions to help Liverpool defend their title.

However, the battle against Barcelona in the middle of the week is still too exhausting.

It may also be that the Liverpool players were too relaxed because of Chelsea's loss.

Liverpool's away game against Stoke City was pretty bad.

Stoke City's pass-and-control style of play performed extremely well at home, but Liverpool players did not show their due strength without sufficient physical support.

The final score was 1 to 1. When Stoke City scored the first goal, relying on Coutinho's long-range shot, Liverpool evened the score with difficulty and achieved a draw in an away game.

Although they failed to win the championship ahead of time, Liverpool, which is three points ahead, still has a huge advantage of 8 goals in terms of goal difference. It is only theoretically possible for Chelsea to win the championship.

However, in the last round of the game, Liverpool still have to go all out, and it is also at home to draw a perfect end to this season.

In the last round of the Premier League, all games start at the same time.

Liverpool sits at home against Crystal Palace. Although the outcome may not affect the suspense of the championship too much, Rogers still hopes to use a home victory to celebrate Liverpool's defending league title.

Since the Champions League final will be held in two weeks, Liverpool does not have to worry about excessive physical consumption at this time. As long as the players do not suffer from injuries and run more, there is nothing serious. Liverpool has enough rest time , trimmed afterwards.

The regular starting lineup of 433 has not changed much from the lineup for the second round against Barcelona.

In the last round of the game, for Crystal Palace, the team relegated early. In fact, it was already in a "holiday" state. With almost no suspense about the championship, Crystal Palace performed quite aggressively in this game.

At Anfield Stadium, he took the initiative to start a confrontation with Liverpool.

Not to mention, Crystal Palace's opening three tricks did disrupt Liverpool's tactical arrangements.

After all, Rodgers did not expect that there would be mid-lower teams that would take the initiative to attack and try to suppress Liverpool at Anfield.

However, Crystal Palace's English-style long pass, although the scene was fierce and suppressed Liverpool's side for a certain period of time, but the pass into the penalty area was still easily resolved by Yang Feng and Skrtel. .

After sustaining the opening attack of Crystal Palace, the Liverpool players began to gradually enter the game state.

The team's pass and control offense, as well as the on-the-spot frontcourt press after the offense, all began to exert their power.

The initiative of the game was firmly in the hands of Liverpool, and they no longer gave Crystal Palace too many opportunities to attack.

In the last Premier League game of the season, the first to explode his ability is still the player who played the best frontcourt in Liverpool this season-Sterling.

In the 23rd minute of the game, Sterling came to the left by switching positions with Coutinho, and started a strong attack with the ball.

After a smash, after dunking the defensive player's grab, Sterling dialed the ball with his right foot, and then directly on the line of the penalty area, he completed a volley and hit the goal.

This kick has great power, the ball is fast, and the angle is just controlled within the range of the goal frame.

The Crystal Palace goalkeeper fought hard to save, but was still a step too late.

The ball flew into the goal quickly and hit the net.

After Sterling confirmed the goal, he ran directly to the South Stand, performed an impromptu dance, and celebrated wildly with the fans in the Liverpool kop stand.

Although the goal difference advantage is big enough, but who can be unhappy to win the last round of the league?

For Crystal Palace, this game is a role to accompany the prince to study, but all the players still want to leave a good impression on the "prince" in this game.

After all, people go to high places and water flows to low places. Which player doesn't want to play for a wealthy team?

The Crystal Palace players, who are not under the pressure of results and game results, behaved quite freely. They wanted to use their final performance to try to impress some wealthy scouts.

One goal behind, in this "irrelevant" game, it will not affect the mentality of the Crystal Palace players. Everyone is in the game and continues to show their strength.

Not to mention, it was this kind of peaceful mentality that allowed the players of Crystal Palace to perform exceptionally at Anfield.

"Zaha!"

"One person connected two people on the left!"

"Break through Liverpool's penalty area and hit the goal!"

"GOAL!!!"

"Zaha played his personal ability at the end of the first half and helped Crystal Palace equalize the score."

Crystal Palace's thigh is still the familiar thigh, even though Zaha is only a fledgling at this time.

But the strong personal strength is still fully revealed.

Yang Feng's defensive speed is not bad, but Zaha is still one step ahead of Yang Feng and completes the goal, which makes Yang Feng's blocking half a beat slower.

However, in the second half of the game, Liverpool continued to maintain a crushing strength, and after all, there was a huge gap in the overall strength of Crystal Palace.

Sturridge and Jay, who came off the bench, scored a goal each in the second half, helping Liverpool directly rewrite the score to 3-1.

When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, the Liverpool fans who had celebrated the whole game burst into deafening shouts again.

"we are the champion!"

When the famous song of Queen sounded at Anfield Stadium, many old Liverpool fans were already moved to tears.

A year ago, they just celebrated the first Premier League championship trophy in team history, regaining the glory of England's top league championship that had been lost for more than 20 years.

And today, a year later, after a bad start, they witnessed the rebirth of Liverpool, and saw this group of young people struggling to complete the feat of defending the champions.

Moreover, the season is far from over, Liverpool still have the opportunity to chase the Champions League trophy and compete for more honors...