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The outcome of this red-blue battle, in the final victory, although Liverpool had the last laugh in the game, but the focus after the game was actually all on Chelsea, which had obvious problems within the team.

Although Mourinho said at the press conference that there is nothing wrong with the team and that he and the players are fine, the team is just in poor condition and the results are not good.

However, media reporters will not listen to such official remarks, but are trying to find the deep-seated secrets of the Chelsea team from Mourinho's words, facial expressions and attitudes.

For Liverpool, as long as they can win the away game, the victory of this game also allows Liverpool to end the vicious circle of multiple rounds of invincibility in various competitions, and can further improve the league rankings.

However, the hardships on the schedule are gradually testing Liverpool's physical fitness.

In the fourth round of the UEFA Champions League group stage in the middle of the week, Liverpool, sitting at Anfield Stadium, faced the visiting CSKA Moscow.

In the European competition, the Russian team left its cold home and came to the away game, and its strength automatically declined by more than one notch.

For Liverpool, this home game is naturally not to be missed.

In order to grasp the absolute initiative of promotion, Klopp continued to send his most satisfactory starting list to actively strengthen the possession of the ball at home and keep the team's offensive initiative.

Without the limitation of weather factors, the Liverpool players can obviously easily display most of their strengths, and the CSKA Moscow players who came from afar, in the eyes of the Liverpool players, have nothing to do with some of the English champions they encountered in the cup. The level only knows the opponent who uses the body to fight, there is not much difference.

Less than 30 minutes into the game, Liverpool had taken the lead 2-0.

It was Coutinho who opened the scoring. Coutinho, who scored twice against Chelsea before, continued to maintain his excellent foot feel. In only 7 minutes of the game, he completed a wonderful long-range shot from the outside.

The ball whizzed out and hit the upper left corner of the goal, making Akinfeev's save futile.

Coutinho scored the first goal for Liverpool.

And then in the 27th minute, during Liverpool's frontcourt suppression stage, Yang Feng scored a goal again in the Champions League match.

In the corner kick tactics in the frontcourt, Yang Feng, who was ambushing in the middle, served first and directly overwhelmed the visiting team's central defender. He completed the header and scored a goal for the team to expand the score.

Leading by two goals, the next game will be simpler and easier.

Liverpool began to systematically choose to play with the ball to save more energy.

In the first half of the game, under Liverpool's possession of the ball, the score of 2-0 was maintained until the intermission.

In the second half of the game, the visiting team CSKA Moscow obviously didn't want the away game to be caught without a fight, and the team's offensive was strengthened through substitution adjustments.

It's just that Liverpool has a high position to press the defense in front of it, which limits the fluency of the visiting team's shots and reduces the number of attacks that the visiting team can complete.

Later, with Yang Feng in the backcourt, he used his super personal defensive ability on the defensive end to limit the personal offense of the visiting team's striker.

Central Moscow's combination of side and center play can't make a specific threat at all.

All the passes into the penalty area were intercepted by Yang Feng and his teammates.

And Liverpool's performance on the counter-attack end is still efficient.

Lallana's counter-attack goal in the 62nd minute gave Liverpool a 3-0 lead and further sealed the victory.

Liverpool's third goal did have some confidence in the visiting team.

In the absence of the slightest hope, the players of CSKA Moscow did not have much motivation to waste their precious physical energy in the away game.

In the end, the score of 3-0 was maintained until the end of the game.

Liverpool, which won another victory, this time, firmly grasped the initiative to advance to the Champions League in their own hands.

After a week of double matches, Liverpool's opponents in the league ushered in the challenge of the London team Crystal Palace.

Crystal Palace has performed very well this season. With the efforts of Cabaye, Zaha and others in the midfield, the team performed very well on the offensive end.

Although it is still a slightly rough traditional British style of play, the team has brought the players' speed, physical strength, and athletic ability to the extreme this season, and the perfect connection together has also formed its own unique style. The tactical system often staged wonderful performances against giant teams.

Today, Liverpool, which are fighting continuously on all fronts, is destined to be a tough battle when facing Crystal Palace, even at home.

For Liverpool, the formation of 433 troops is not much different from before.

On the side of the Crystal Palace, it is also the team's usual 442 lineup this season.

The entire team, more than half of the players, are the kind of players who look black and tough. They rely on the team's super physical fitness to gain a foothold in the Premier League this season.

At the beginning of the game, Crystal Palace showed the players' talent in athletic ability.

Isn't Liverpool willing to press high?

Crystal Palace, who came as a guest, also used a wide range of running to compete with Liverpool players in a full-court, multi-directional running competition.

The rhythm of the game was raised by the Crystal Palace players. Everyone was chasing the football, attacking and defending in a fast offensive and defensive rhythm.

In fact, in terms of pure game rhythm, it is indeed the game rhythm that Liverpool is good at under Klopp's coaching style.

The increase in offensive and defensive rounds means that there are more chances to steal the ball in the frontcourt and counterattack on the spot.

The opening stage of the game was indeed as Klopp expected.

Liverpool's high-position pressing and pressing in the midfield did lead the game according to their own expectations.

The team got a lot of offensive opportunities in the midfield, especially some opportunities to counterattack on the spot, so that Liverpool can easily complete multiple threatening shots in the frontcourt.

Although the team's defense was also threatened by Crystal Palace's counterattack, Zaha's speed and the athletic ability of the visiting team's strikers made the defense led by Yang Feng suffer a lot. However, everyone felt that Liverpool was in such a situation. In a familiar rhythm, it is normal to take the lead.

However, the Liverpool players on the field obviously felt a little bad during the continuous running.

Tired, tired, feeling a little weak.

In less than half an hour of the game, the Liverpool players felt as if they were more tired than at the end of the previous half.

This is Crystal Palace's tactic, mobilizing the running ability of Liverpool players from the very beginning, turning the game into a track and field competition under the fast-paced offense and defense of both sides.

As for the Liverpool players, they were already deeply affected by the continuous battles in various competitions and their physical fitness was poor. Crystal Palace is going to consume Liverpool under such circumstances...