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Although Liverpool has won four consecutive victories in the Premier League recently, the point gap with the top-ranked Leicester City has not narrowed, but has expanded to as much as 7 points.

Of course, it's not that Leicester City's record is not giving opportunities for continuous victories, but that Liverpool's own schedule will have fewer games.

Due to Liverpool's successive opponents in the league, Everton and Chelsea have so far had domestic cup matches to play, making Liverpool now in the league, two rounds less, leading to 7 points behind Leicester City.

After defeating Liverpool, Leicester City's recent performance can only be said to be average. The record of 6 games, 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss can only be said to be quite normal, but it is not amazing and invincible. There was a chance.

In these 6 games, it is a pity that they lost to Arsenal in the away game and were tied by West Bromwich Albion at home, which caused Leicester City's record to stagnate.

Although there is such a wonderful away game against Manchester City, if Leicester City continues to make mistakes in the league and give Liverpool a chance, then Liverpool may not be able to complete the reversal at the end of the league and win a reversal Championship victory.

You know, if Liverpool can win both the Premier League supplementary games that have not yet been played, then the points gap between the two teams will be further reduced to 1 point. It will be more intense.

Of course, for Liverpool, although the two make-up games that were not played were both at home at Anfield, one was the Merseyside derby, and the other was against the Blues who had regained their competitiveness after the coaching change. Against Chelsea, these are two tough battles for Liverpool, but it is not easy to fight. It is unknown whether they can win two games.

However, fortunately, Chelsea postponed his match with Liverpool due to the domestic FA Cup. This gave Liverpool a weekend to adjust before the start of the Champions League. Compared with Atletico Madrid, they have better physical fitness to deal with Such a crucial battle.

Liverpool went to Madrid, the capital of Spain, to challenge Atletico Madrid, which has regained its glory in the past, after Simeone became the coach.

In the previous Madrid, there was only one voice of Real Madrid, but now the resurgence of Atletico Madrid represents another color and another voice of Madrid.

For the second round of the quarter-final match, for the coaches of the two teams, it is a test of the coach's formation ability.

How to choose your own tactics, whether to attack or defend, will have a huge impact on the situation of the game.

You must know that the score of 0 to 0 in the first round makes the chance and risk equal for both sides. For the two teams, how to choose tactics is really embarrassing.

The home team, Atletico Madrid, can take advantage of the home court and directly forcefully launch an attack. Even with Atletico Madrid's offensive level at home this season, there is still a high probability that they can break through Liverpool's gate, but if they really attack, what should the defense do?

Even if Atletico Madrid can score in the end, if Liverpool's counterattack can really penetrate Atletico Madrid's gate, then Liverpool will have the advantage of away goals, and only need to remain unbeaten to get the right to advance.

In the worst case, if Liverpool scored a goal first, then Atletico Madrid must chase two goals in a row afterwards.

Atletico Madrid, in terms of tactical choice, cannot bear the loss of conceding goals at home.

This is the same for Liverpool. Although Liverpool has an away goal, it can occupy a huge advantage. Under such circumstances, it is too difficult to recover the score when falling behind.

Both teams are on both ends of the offense and defense, and can choose, but in the end, the outcome of the scene still depends on the game between the two head coaches.

In the selection of the starting lineup, priority will be given to showing the thinking of the two head coaches in this game.

For Liverpool, because of Emre Can's red card suspension, there is actually not much room for tactical changes in this game.

Liverpool continues the 433 lineup that they are very good at this season.

It's just that in the midfield, Klopp is still a little conservative, to give priority to his own defensive ability, and Lucas is arranged to start this game.

Lucas, Henderson and Lallana form Liverpool's midfield three.

The trident in the frontcourt is Firmino, Coutinho and Milner.

In this game, Milner continued to play his panacea attributes. In the starting lineup, when he served as the starting right winger, it may also be to make it easier for Klopp to make temporary changes in the game.

Moreover, Milner's running style in the middle and front courts allows the team to maintain sufficient defensive capabilities while attacking.

On the Atletico Madrid side, when the starting roster was announced, it was very different from when they played away games.

Atletico Madrid still chooses to use the 442 formation, but in terms of player selection, several changes have been made.

On the one hand, the team has suffered a series of tough battles in the league, and the players have suffered a lot from injuries. On the other hand, Carrasco's return is also a great supplement to the strength of Atletico Madrid's frontcourt.

Compared with the first round of the contest between the two sides, on the defensive line, Simeone replaced Savage with Jimenez today.

In the midfield, the double midfielder partnered with captain Gabi was replaced by Simeone's Argentine fellow Augusto.

Cork and Saul are two full-backs in the announced positions. Of course, Cork may still be closer to the center to organize the offense.

On the front line, there are Carrasco and Griezmann who have returned from injury.

Although it is a 442 lineup, if Carrasco returns to the wing, it will directly become 451.

In the formation of the coaches of both sides, the variability of the position of the starting players is retained to attack or defend according to the game form on the field.

Before the start of this series, it was considered to be a duel of spear and shield. After the first round was 0-0, at the beginning of the second round, the two teams actually chose to do well in a very "tacit" way. own defense.

At the beginning of the game, both teams did an excellent job of protecting the ball. They would rather give up some passing opportunities and make more meaningless inverting passes, and would not risk passing the ball to avoid losing the ball.

In terms of the rhythm of the game from the beginning of the two teams, they both lowered their respective offensive rhythms and left enough defensive players in the midfield to use a few players to properly find some offensive opportunities.

Today, the rhythm of the game between Liverpool and Atletico Madrid was really slow at the beginning, so slow that the two sides had almost no good offensive methods except for the occasional ultra-long-range long-range shots, passing the ball into the dangerous area.

As for the long shot, for the two goalkeepers, there is not much defensive problem.

In terms of the strength invested by the two teams on the offensive end, even if the ball is lost in the front court, they can still rely on the left behind players to defuse the opponent's attack.

Such a slow pace makes many fans feel a little drowsy...