Midfielder

Chelsea and Liverpool have made it to the Champions League semi-finals together. Although one of them must accept the fate of being eliminated, such a scene may only make those neutral English fans excited.

For them, this is the revival battle of the Premier League clubs in the Champions League, and the dominance of the Premier League is strengthening.

However, Chelsea and Liverpool have very different attitudes towards the two future games.

Especially the Spanish bald man Benítez. After he dealt with Juventus, he has been worried about the two semi-finals. After losing the top four rankings in the Premier League, he only has this life-saving straw.

Although the two Americans who are about to complete the club acquisition plan have talked to him privately, whether Liverpool can appear in the Champions League next season or not, they will continue to hire Benítez.

But such remarks are just a consolation in Benítez's view. If he loses the top four seats in the league and is defeated five times in a season by Chelsea, he really doesn't need to stay in Liverpool.

Even if the Red Army's die-hard fans didn't coax him to leave, Benítez felt that he had no face to stay here. Under such great pressure, Benítez couldn't help being nervous.

It's just that this Spanish bald man rarely shows any emotional changes in front of people, and don't expect him to admit defeat in front of the media. Moreover, the person he is going to confront this time is Mourinho. If it were someone else, Benítez might even compliment him, but Mourinho definitely can't expect to get this treatment from Benítez.

If Wenger and Ferguson have become old enemies after several seasons of entanglement, then there is a blood debt between Benítez and Mourinho. Chelsea has now become Liverpool's biggest victim.

From the league to the League Cup, three encounters and three defeats, Benítez really doesn't know what magic the Portuguese has. Anyway, as long as he encounters him, no matter what tactics Benítez uses, they will fail.

Including the iron bucket formation he used against Juventus in the away game, he has used it before. In the league, Benítez even used a defensive lineup of three defensive midfielders to try to trap Chelsea's attack.

But the final result was that the defensive midfielder line formed by Hamann and Gerrard was repeatedly broken through by the black-haired boy, who passed the ball and broke through. The boy tortured Benítez's nerves in various ways.

"That's a devil! He brings nightmares to everyone!" This is Benítez's true evaluation of Lin Yi.

Anyway, no matter what, Mourinho and Lin Yi, the beastly master and apprentice, are an absolute nightmare for Liverpool and Benítez, and it is the kind of nightmare that may never wake up after falling asleep.

If someone interviewed Benítez before this game, you only need to ask him which team he hates to meet the most in the Premier League, then his answer must be Chelsea, and his tone and expression are full of hatred.

I guess the Spanish bald man must have gnashed his teeth when answering this question. There is no way. Mourinho and Chelsea tortured him to death. You have to allow others to have the habit of holding grudges, right?

It can be said that Benítez has now put all his energy on the Champions League semi-finals with Chelsea. As for the results in the league, he can only put it aside now. After all, it is obviously not realistic to let Liverpool surpass Everton's fourth place in the league with only two rounds left in the league.

This is not a pessimistic idea, because many Liverpool fans are praying that if Liverpool can rush to the top six in the standings, it will be a kind of luck for them. This league result is indeed embarrassing enough.

So Benítez can't afford to lose now. If he wants to take root in the Premier League, he must beat Chelsea.

However, compared with Benítez's state of no retreat, it is obvious that Mourinho is much more relaxed, especially after winning Bayern Munich away, he even gave the main players a long holiday for the first time.

All players who have participated in two Champions League games can have three days of free time. This can be said to be an amnesty for Mourinho, who has always been strict in his discipline. It can be seen that he is very relaxed.

Including Brito, an old partner who is very familiar with Mourinho, also said privately that Mourinho had prepared some videotapes about Juventus's games, but after seeing Liverpool's success, those videotapes were thrown aside, because they were too familiar with Liverpool and these things were not useful at all.

Just like Benítez knows Chelsea, there is no secret between these two Premier League teams.

If Hiddink can still arrange some substitutes of Eindhoven to play a trick with AC Milan, then Chelsea and Liverpool are like two naked men, everything is clear at a glance.

Even if these two teams send all their substitutes to play the game at the same time, they can know each other's strength and characteristics. For competitors who have been studying for almost a season, in such a Champions League semi-final, they can only compete with their true abilities in the end.

The derby is not only about how fierce the confrontation is in the game, when they are too familiar with each other, the game will also become very boring, just like the match between the two heroes in Milan, which is more intense than exciting.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this familiarity that Mourinho simply did not bother to study it this time.

"Anyway, you can tell what the opponent's lineup is with your eyes closed, so you might as well take this opportunity to take a vacation."

Not only the players have gone to rest, Mourinho himself rarely has free time to spend with his wife and children. Compared with Benitez, who is so nervous that his forehead wrinkles, Mourinho is very leisurely now.

This season has been successful for Mourinho, who landed in the Premier League for the first time. Under his leadership, Chelsea has now confirmed to win two championships. The Champions League competition now feels more like they are challenging themselves.

Winning a double crown in his first Premier League season was a height that even Ferguson had not reached, but Mourinho and the team he led seemed to have won both in an understatement. A trophy.

Now all they have to do is put aside all their psychological baggage and prepare to attack Manchester United's Triple Crown record.

"I believe in my team, and I also believe that those players can take Chelsea to the final." This is the first time Mourinho has stated his ambition to enter the final in front of the media, regardless of whether these words can arouse Benitez's dissatisfaction, anyway, for Mourinho, Liverpool has absolutely no chance to be a stumbling block for him.

Chelsea's players also firmly believe in this. Perhaps the experience of killing their opponents three times this season has given them extremely strong confidence. Anyway, when the two teams meet, Chelsea will definitely not be afraid of each other.

This is the belief that Mourinho has instilled in his players to win. Under the leadership of this guy, Chelsea now dares to ignore the threats posed to them by any opponent. For them, the opponent is always only themselves.

"Beyond yourself is the biggest improvement. You are already much better than last season. Please remember this. You are now the best team in England, and there is no one behind you."

Although Mourinho is usually very strict with the players, he always stands in front of the players and protects these guys. This season, for Chelsea, a team that may have been full of news, it can be said that It has always been calm, and there are not many bad rumors that can interfere with their preparations.

This is the role of Mourinho. He is always the main MT to attract others' firepower, and his players can stand behind him as much as they want and act as output without having to consider other issues at all.

For the Liverpool team, they are really the most melancholy group of people now, Chelsea is really too difficult to deal with.

Especially Lin Yi, he is simply a nightmare for Liverpool. Including Gerrard, Hamann and Alonso all said in interviews that Lin Yi is the most difficult person they have ever encountered in England. A tough opponent.

"His slickness and cunning on the court are simply beyond the age of eighteen. He seems to have a soul that has played football for decades hidden in his body. Experience? For him, it is almost the same as having it or not. "

Although this was a speech made a few months before the start of the Champions League semi-finals, Chelsea fans have now deliberately edited these interviews into clips, posted them on their official forum, and provided others with the opportunity to download them.

These Chelsea fans just want to tell others, don't think that those guys who can seal off Juventus can hold the midfield. Don't forget, we have Lin Yi, that is a magical boy who can do anything!

It is estimated that Benitez is scratching his head right now thinking about how to deal with that ghostly boy. If he cannot be defeated in this game, then don't think about anything else and just wait to be eliminated by that boy.

But Lin Yi can be blocked if you want? Unless Benitez uses a bundle of tape to firmly tie him to his two main midfielders, otherwise, there is no chance of designation.

The Champions League semi-finals are now a big test for Liverpool. Whether they can pass Chelsea, Benitez himself probably has no idea, but he can only bite the bullet and claim to be able to make it to the finals.

Just like Benitez's melancholy, the boy he now regards as a devil is also melancholy.

But what he was melancholy about was definitely not the Champions League semi-finals, but a little witch that gave him a huge headache. . .

(The Lakers lost again. If this continues, are they going to fulfill the Heat's championship dream before the shutdown?)