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Benitez didn't know how he survived the press conference after the game. He could only remember that it was a very chaotic scene, and there were groups of Liverpool reporters pestering him with all kinds of questions.

A complete defeat at home, this is a fact that many Liverpool people cannot accept. Although they have tacitly accepted the strength of their opponents after half of the second half, it does not mean that they can accept the team's loss.

Especially in the injury time of the second half, Lin Yi cut into the penalty area again under the close defense of Hyypiä.

The ghostly kid was unable to shoot this time because of Hyypiä's collision and pulling on him. Hyypiä originally planned to knock Lin Yi down directly outside the penalty area, but his action was still slow.

By the time this guy pulled Lin Yi, the kid had already cut into the penalty area, and Hyypiä's pulling action was very obvious. His hand grabbed Lin Yi's clothes and abruptly stopped him from moving forward.

Lin Yi is not the kind of guy who will fall down if someone pulls him, but with such force, it would be difficult for him to hold on even if he wanted to.

Such a foul action is impossible for the referee on duty to ignore, especially the linesman, who waved the flag early.

There is nothing to say about the penalty kick. Even if a group of Liverpool players surrounded the referee and loudly defended it, and Hyypia was even more excited and yelled at the French referee, it could not change the final penalty of the Frenchman.

There was no discussion, it was a penalty kick, and the French referee also raised a red card to Hyypia. He could not easily forgive such a foul action, even if this was Anfield Stadium, even if Liverpool was falling behind now.

Penalty kick + red card, a fact that made all Liverpool people collapse, and Lampard would never waste such a scoring opportunity. His penalty kick made Dudek lose the desire to save the ball. He just watched the football go into the net from his hand, and then listened to the Chelsea fans, and once again burst into huge cheers.

2-0, one minute after Lampard changed the score again with a penalty kick, this slow-moving game ended.

However, when the French referee blew the final whistle, the Liverpool fans felt not regret, but a sense of relief. Perhaps they were celebrating that they no longer had to suffer from Lin Yi.

But these supporters who have always been loyal to the team did not use their applause to encourage the losing team after the game. All they could do was tear up the tickets in their hands and scatter them in the air.

For these fans who have supported Liverpool for several years, more than ten years, or even decades, they are now feeling lost, not because the team lost the game, but because they lost their courage.

A completely failed game. In the entire 90-minute confrontation, these fans only saw their players constantly committing fouls and letting their opponents suppress them, but the counterattack they expected did not appear.

Seven shots, that's the number of shots Liverpool had in the whole game, seven, including several long shots, and most of them appeared in the opening stage. In the following 80 minutes, the offense almost disappeared.

Perhaps only after Morientes came on the court did Liverpool have a header, and Gerrard finally found a chance to shoot a long shot more than 20 meters away from Chelsea's goal when the game was about to end.

And that was also the shot that Liverpool had the most chance to score in the whole game, but in the end Gerrard's shot only bypassed Cech's ten fingers, but was ruthlessly rejected by the goal post at the last moment.

It was because of Gerrard's shot that almost scored that Liverpool finally tempted them to try to press forward in the last five minutes, wanting to rely on their crazy attack at the last moment to equalize the damn score.

But Liverpool's gambling-like pressure gave Chelsea the most comfortable counterattack opportunity, and they would not make mistakes easily when facing such pressure. Chelsea, who started with this kind of attack, would not miss such an opportunity. Lin Yi made Hyypia's foul by counterattacking.

Perhaps those Liverpool fans were not lamenting Chelsea's strength, they were just questioning Benítez's tactical arrangement. The Spaniard's conservative playing style completely stifled the Red Army's ability to withstand pressure.

Although fighting an offensive battle with the opponent may not necessarily allow Liverpool to win at home, at least such a playing style can allow those die-hard fans to see the courage of the team, instead of disgust like now.

They don't like to see a losing game, but they are more afraid of seeing a team without aggressiveness. Maybe Benítez will say that this is because they hope to win Chelsea in two rounds of games.

But this result has explained everything. The so-called tactical adjustment completely failed. Not only did they lose the game, but they also lost the opportunity to wrestle with the opponent in the second round. Two goals have completely killed the suspense.

This is not the worst thing. What Chelsea took away from Anfield were two away goals, a victory, and they also took away half of Liverpool's defensive lineup. This is the most fatal result.

Hypia and Biscan are destined to miss the second round, especially Hyypia's red card. Maybe he will not only be suspended in the next game, but he may have to accept additional punishment from UEFA for his yelling at the referee and the swearing after the foul, but this has nothing to do with this season's Champions League.

Because even those die-hard Liverpool fans don't believe that they can score two goals at Stamford Bridge.

Two red cards are deadly enough, but Liverpool has more troubles. Alonso will also be suspended due to accumulated yellow cards, as will Finnan. The only central defender Carragher who is still responsible for his duties has also had problems.

This unlucky guy collided with Drogba in an aerial confrontation in a header before the end of the game. Drogba is a very strong man, and this guy is also heading the ball while rushing forward.

You can imagine how miserable Carragher's condition was. This collision was fatal enough. The most unfortunate thing was that when Carragher was knocked to the grass, Drogba happened to fall directly on him.

Carragher had experienced the feeling of being directly pressed by an African elephant, and his right leg also felt it.

Because of this injury, Liverpool only had eight people on the field in the last minute of the game.

In the post-match examination, it was confirmed that Carragher had a muscle strain in his right leg and would be out for at least three weeks.

In one game, he lost more than half of his defensive main players. It is estimated that Benítez would never have thought that this would be the result before the game started. Five people were tossed away by Chelsea.

What should we do in the next game? Should we find someone from the bench? It is estimated that even if Benítez had this idea, he really didn't know how to find players who can play these positions. After all, these main players are his lifeblood.

This is a defensive lineup that has been running in for almost a season, especially the central defender duo of Carragher and Hyypia, who are almost irreplaceable. Now they have to be absent together, which is absolutely fatal.

Moreover, the next round of the game is away, and Liverpool will have to take the initiative to attack, which requires a higher level of defense. Can we expect the substitutes to take up the responsibility of Liverpool's defense now?

Even Benítez himself dare not make such a luxury, let alone the desperate Liverpool fans.

When the game ended, there was no song of "You Are Not Alone" in Anfield. All that was left for the Liverpool players were the debris thrown by the fans and the angry roars from the fans.

This is the first time this season that the home fans at Anfield have such angry expressions, and it is also the first time in recent seasons that Liverpool fans have thrown their tickets at the team they have always supported.

"Spaniards! Get out of Anfield! We don't need a soft-ass coach like you!"

"You've ruined Liverpool's glory! You damned guy! You're taking revenge on us English people!"

This kind of shouting filled every corner of Anfield. Even the Chelsea fans were a little surprised by the scene. After all, they didn't expect the opponent's fans to act so radically.

When Benítez left the coaching booth and was about to enter the player's tunnel, at least dozens of mineral water bottles fell from the sky at his feet. The splashing water splashed all over him, but the guy with a dull look didn't care. He didn't even care about what happened. He was like a zombie moving.

Until entering the press conference, Benítez was in this state. He didn't even know what he said at the press conference. Anyway, he was just moving his lips mechanically and answering questions mechanically.

Then he watched the reporters raise their microphones, and all kinds of flashes dazzled his eyes.

Benítez didn't even know how he left the venue in the end. He only remembered that before he got on his private car, he heard a Liverpool media reporter shouting at him behind him.

"Does losing the game at home mean that we have lost the chance to advance to the finals!?"

This was the only question Benítez remembered, but he didn't give any answer. He just paused for a moment, opened the car door, got in, and then signaled the driver to leave this crazy place quickly.

Have we lost? Maybe, or rather, we didn't lose, we were defeated by Chelsea. . . .

This is why Benítez didn't answer the reporter. He didn't want to admit the facts, but the reality was extremely cruel in front of him. . . .

(Frankfurt did not perform a relegation miracle at the last moment. Although they scored a goal first, they were not a stumbling block in Dortmund's championship celebration. In addition, congratulations to Manchester United on their successful coronation. The 19th crown has finally rewritten history... Sir Alex, awesome!)