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    A long-awaited showdown between red and blue has kicked off the preliminary battle of the new Premier League season as scheduled.  Liverpool and Chelsea, after the World Cup, this is the first luxury feast that makes fans around the world excited.  Facing Chelsea, who had great potential to catch up with Real Madrid and become the new "Galaxy Fleet", Liverpool successfully defeated their old enemy and continued their unbeaten record against Chelsea in the cup.  This summer, the red and blue armies have very different investments in the transfer market. Abramovich¡¯s money has been spent on purchasing world-class superstars.  With Shevchenko, Ballack, and the very likely arrival of A. Cole, Chelsea, which is already full of stars, will introduce one of the world's top players on each of three lines.  Liverpool has limited funds, and its targets are second-rate stars who are not luxurious but are quite practical. After leaving the two forwards Morientes and Cisse, they introduced Bellamy, Pennant, and Gonzalez.  It's just a second-rate star. It is indeed high quality and cheap, but it is far from Sheva in terms of weight.  Chen Yu is considered the only superstar, but he is still injured, so he picked up a bargain.  However, in the Community Shield Cup, the performance of the players introduced by both sides was reversed.  Ballack ended the game due to injury after less than half of the game. Apart from the goal that showed his personal ability, Sheva's cooperation with his teammates seemed quite unfamiliar.  As for Liverpool, Bellamy, Pennant and Chilean Gonzalez have almost become the team's biggest highlights.  Both goals were related to the direct participation of several newcomers.  In terms of team integration alone, Liverpool is far above Chelsea.  ?Compared with the previous two seasons, Chelsea has completely replaced Manchester United as the public enemy of the entire Premier League team.  For Chelsea, which originally relied on defense, this is not a good phenomenon.  The "Chelsea model" that Mourinho has painstakingly created is also in danger of being adapted to and gradually cracked by opponents.  While Manchester United and Arsenal are recruiting heavily to strengthen their strength, although Liverpool has not invested much, it has also taken a risk on Chen Yu, and has greater expectations on a stable basis.  If Chelsea appears in the upcoming Premier League match in the same state as last night, it will definitely be good news for Manchester United, Arsenal, and Liverpool, which are eager to overturn Chelsea's dominance.  Although they successfully took the "weather vane" of the Premier League, the curse of the Community Shield still hangs over Liverpool. In the subsequent life-and-death battle with Maccabi Haifa in the Champions League qualifying round, Liverpool's performance was still sluggish, with disorganized offense and disorganized defense.  Mistakes continued, not to mention the lack of Community Shield status, and even the performance in the first round at Anfield was not as good as it was.  Although Maccabi Haifa is playing at home in the second round of the Champions League qualifying round, because the domestic war in Israel has not yet subsided, all European competitions participated by Israeli teams cannot be held in Israel and must be held in neutral countries. Therefore  This life-and-death battle for Maccabi Haifa's promotion was held in Kiev, Ukraine. Liverpool has loyal fans all over the world, while Maccabi Haifa is unknown to anyone. For them, the home court advantage is completely lost.  live.  But in Kiev, encouraged by UU's 10,000 pounds in the Champions League, Maccabi Haifa performed very well. They insisted on a defensive and counterattack style. Both wings advanced very quickly and dared to invest in counterattacks.  troops.  Claudie, who had an assist in the first game, has the ability to shoot long shots from outside the penalty area and quickly cut into the two ribs. Maccabi Haifa relies on him to complete many offenses. He gives Liverpool a lot of opportunities in the frontcourt.  Threat, after Liverpool scored first by Crouch, Claudie quickly equalized the score. In the final stoppage time, he also got a chance to face goalkeeper Reina seven meters in front of the goal, but Reina  The wonderful save saved Liverpool from being dragged into overtime by Maccabi Haifa. In the end, Liverpool narrowly qualified for the Champions League with a total score of 100.  It is a happy event to advance to the Champions League, which at least guarantees UU's income of 10,000 pounds. However, the team's sluggish performance makes Liverpool fans even more anxious. Three days later, the first round of the Premier League started on Saturday. Although Liverpool's first  The only opponent, Sheffield United, is only a newly promoted team, but based on Liverpool's performance in the warm-up match and against Maccabi Haifa, the Premier League's relegation teams are enough to give them a drink.  Benitez warned players before the game not to underestimate Sheffield United.  Benitez said: "They have many good players. In order to get promoted to the Premier League, they completed a very difficult season. You can imagine that they have more experience in playing difficult games. This is a battle for us.  It's a very dangerous game. They're not weak and we won't beat them easily. When you play against a team with many players you've never seen before, you don't know what's going to happen until the game starts.  "In addition, because Liverpool's performance is like a roller coaster, the state is unstable, and it is difficult for forwards to score goals. Many fans keep mentioning Chen Yu, and reporters will ask when Chen Yu will come back every game. This makes Bei, who has a calm personality,  Niites was a little impatient. He said, don't place your hopes on Chen Yu who is recovering from injury. Without Chen Yu, Liverpool also won the Champions League. Liverpool has the strength to win the championship. Defeating Chelsea in the Community Shield Cup is the best.  exampleSon, Liverpool must be more confident in the league so that they can have the last laugh.  Liverpool fans are missing China Chen, but in fact Sheffield United fans are also missing a Chinese: Li Tie.  Former Chinese Footballer Li Tie joined Everton Club four years ago. At that time, he and Everton Club's Chinese sponsor Kejian caused quite a stir in the British football world.  The season was a huge success and he started most of Everton's games that season.  However, Li Tie disappeared from the fans' sight two seasons ago due to injury. This summer, Sheffield United got Li Tie from Everton for free after returning from injury.  Sheffield United's midfielders Alan Quinn, Jagielka and Eiffel have outstanding skills and are the main contributors to Sheffield United's promotion to the Premier League. However, Li Tie's running and fighting are also very important to Sheffield United. As a newly promoted team, they  The weapon against a giant like Liverpool cannot be technology, it can only be the most basic fighting and running in football, so Li Tie's role is obvious.  But although Li Tie has recovered from his ankle injury, his condition is not good, so it is still impossible to play the main role and can only wait for opportunities on the bench.  Originally, this game could be hyped as a Chinese derby, but because one of the players is still recovering from injury in the United States and the other has little hope of playing, the media can only express regret for this and hope to see the players compete at the same time in the second half of the game.  British fans show off the style of Chinese players.  Only reporters and fans care about things like the so-called Chinese Derby. For Warnock, the head coach of Sheffield United, he only cares about how to get a point at his home court.  Yes, it's one point, not three points. Warnock knows very well what kind of stuff he has. He was not defeated by Grasshoppers in Switzerland, massacred by Germany's Mainz 0, or forced by Israel's Maccabi Haifa just because of Liverpool's warm-up match.  Ping Er was arrogant. He simply did not believe that a group of Premier League abandoners and English League veterans who had not been together for a long time could defeat Liverpool.  "Getting one point is victory, because other relegation teams may not get a point from Liverpool." This was Warnock's declaration before the game.  No one will laugh at Warnock, because the gap between Sheffield United and Liverpool is so big. If Ferguson were to coach Sheffield United, he would also put forward such a goal.  However, after the game, Warnock regretted it, because if Sheffield United were lucky, they would have a chance to defeat Liverpool and cause a big upset in the Premier League this round.  Since Chelsea, who had started the game first, easily defeated Manchester City with 0, and Manchester United massacred Fulham with 1, which put a lot of pressure on Liverpool. After the game started, Liverpool took the lead in launching a fierce attack. It seemed that they wanted to imitate Manchester United, but they didn't do it at the beginning.  Sheffield United, who had experience in the Premier League, was stunned, but Sheffield United also absorbed the lessons of Fulham. They shrunk their formation, defended tenaciously, and used fierce pressing to disintegrate Liverpool's offense.  After resisting the opening minute, the balance of victory began to tilt towards Sheffield United. At the minute, Liverpool's main defender Rise was injured and went off. This time was exactly the same as the time when Chelsea's Ballack was injured in the Community Shield Cup. This made Liverpool's  Fans once again thought of the Community Shield curse.  Sure enough, eight minutes later, Liverpool's main center back Carragher was also injured in the fight. Seeing that he could not persist, Benitez had to replace him with Agger.  The loss of two main defenders within ten minutes greatly damaged Liverpool's morale. Moreover, due to the instability of the backcourt, Liverpool's offense had no confidence. Both ends of the field played very poorly in the first half. In the 41st minute, there was still  Sheffield United forward Huss counterattacked and scored a goal, but the assistant referee ruled it was offside and Liverpool escaped.  Sheffield United saw a glimmer of hope of scoring points. In the second half of the game, Warnock deliberately let the players press a little higher to put pressure on Liverpool's defense. Warnock's attempt quickly succeeded. In the 46th minute, the Liverpool full-back  Kronkamp made a defensive foul and Sheffield United got a free kick on the left wing. Sheffield United leader Unsworth passed the ball to the center. Liverpool's defense missed someone. Former West Brom forward Huss jumped from the center and scored. Sheffield United's home game  Leading Liverpool.  After falling behind, Liverpool stepped up its attack. Long-range shots from Gerrard, Agger and Sissoko, as well as headers from Hyypia and Bellamy, all threatened Sheffield United's goal, but Sheffield United goalkeeper Kenny and the goalkeeper  The column performed well and resolved Liverpool's shots one by one.  Seeing that the time had reached 70 minutes, Liverpool still could not equalize the score, which made Benitez extremely anxious. However, Liverpool had already used two substitutions due to player injuries. Benitez did not dare to make any more substitutions, so he could only  Looking at the stalemate situation, I was helpless.  However, Liverpool is an old giant after all. Even if the team's condition is worse, there are still players who have flashes of inspiration. In the 71st minute, captain Gerrard and veteran Fowler cooperated in a one-two in the frontcourt. Fowler broke into the penalty area and was tackled by the defender.  He forced a shot when he was down, but the ball didn't have any power.It was saved by goalkeeper Kenny, but the referee awarded a penalty kick.  This made Sheffield United head coach Warnock and the home fans very angry. Warnock rushed to the field to argue with the referee and was given a yellow card by the referee. The home fans let out earth-shattering boos, and when Fowler took the penalty  He also threw debris downwards when the ball was passed, but Fowler was very experienced. He deceived goalkeeper Kenny and succeeded in shooting from the wing, leveling the score for Liverpool.  Then the angry Sheffield United defense became even more fierce, and the home fans continued to boo and harass the Liverpool players. Using this method to equalize the score, Liverpool's morale was not inspired. Under the pressure of their opponents, they  In the last ten minutes, except for Hyypia's header that went over the crossbar, they didn't even create a scoring chance and could only shake hands with newly promoted Liverpool away from home.
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