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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 vs 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 completely 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 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.  This is not a good sign for Chelsea, which originally relied on defense.  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, they have also taken a risk on Chen Yu and have greater expectations on a stable basis.  If Chelsea appears in the upcoming Premier League in the same state as last night, it will definitely be good news for Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and other giants who are eager to subvert 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 following life-or-death battle with Maccabi Haifa in the Champions League qualifying round, Liverpool's performance was still sluggish, with a disorganized offense and a 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-or-death battle for Maccabi Haifa's promotion was held in Kiev, Ukraine. Liverpool has loyal fans all over the world, but no one knows about Maccabi Haifa. For them, the home court advantage is completely lost.  live.  But in Kiev, encouraged by the Champions League's 12 million pounds, Maccabi Haifa performed very well. They insisted on defensive counterattacks. 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 advanced to the top 32 of the Champions League with a total score of 3:2.  It was a happy event to advance to the top 32 of the Champions League, which guaranteed at least 12 million pounds in revenue. However, the team's sluggish performance made Liverpool fans even more anxious. Three days later, the first round of the Premier League started on Saturday. Although Liverpool's third  One of their opponents, 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 good opportunity for us.  It's a dangerous game, they are very good and we won't beat them easily. When you play for the first time against a team with a lot of players you have never seen before, you don't know what's going to happen until the game starts.  What's going on? " 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 the calm character  Benitez was a little impatient. He said,??We must pin our 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 example. Liverpool must play better in the league.  Be confident, so that you 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 sensation in British football.  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 excellent 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 the opportunity on the bench.  Originally, this game could be hyped as a Chinese derby, but because one of the ******** players is still recovering from an injury in the United States, and the other has little hope of playing, the media can only express regrets about this and hope that it can be played in the second half of the game.  Seeing ******** players compete at the same time, showing the style of Chinese players to British fans.  Only reporters and fans care about things like the so-called Chinese Derby. For Sheffield United head coach Warnock, 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 person he has. He did not become arrogant because Liverpool was defeated by Grasshoppers of Switzerland in the warm-up match, was slaughtered 5:0 by Mainz of Germany, and was tied by Maccabi Haifa of Israel.  I simply don¡¯t believe that a team composed of Premier League abandoners and English League One veterans who haven¡¯t been together for a long time can beat 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 set 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 3:0, Manchester United slaughtered Fulham 5:1, which put a lot of pressure on Liverpool. After the game started, Liverpool took the lead in launching a fierce attack, seeming to want to imitate Manchester United.  Sheffield United, which had no Premier League experience, was stunned at the start, but Sheffield United also absorbed Fulham's lessons. They shrunk their formation, defended tenaciously, and used fierce pressing to disintegrate Liverpool's offense.  After withstanding the opening 20 minutes, the balance of victory began to tilt towards Sheffield United. At the 26th minute, Liverpool's main defender Rise was injured and came off the field. This time was exactly the same time as Chelsea's Ballack was injured in the Community Shield Cup. This made  Liverpool fans are reminded of the Community Shield curse again.  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, 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 1-0.  After falling behind, Liverpool stepped up its attack. Long 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 was up to 70 minutes, Liverpool still could not equalize the score. This made Benitez extremely anxious, but Liverpool had already lost because of the ball.The injury used up two substitutions. Benitez did not dare to make any more substitutions and could only watch the stalemate and be helpless.  But 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.  When he was down, he forced a shot, but the ball did not have any power and was saved by goalkeeper Kenny. However, 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 at 1-1 for Liverpool.  Subsequently, the angry Sheffield United defense became even more fierce, and the home fans also 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 the opponent, 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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