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Liverpool are three wins away from the championship (Part 2)
Bournemouth are 18th and grappling with relegation. But after the opening goal, they made the homeowners confused clearly, and had two more chances to eat the table in the 13th and 14th minutes. Fraser hung the ball from the right to enter, but Stanislas headed the ball missed. Next, Bournemouth almost doubled the gap when Fraser corner kick, let Ake head stretch, but goalkeeper Adrian chose the right position to push the ball, save.
However, Liverpool quickly regained their spirit, almost equalizing in the 17th minute. Alexander-Arnold passed a long pass to Firmino to overcome Steve Cook’s block and then shot into the near corner. Only thanks to the timely reflex of goalkeeper Ramsdale, Bournemouth has not lost the advantage. But they also could not hold out long.
Center-back Cook was sore, and his replacement, Simpson, made a decisive mistake, leading to a goal in the 27th minute. Mane stole the ball from Simpson and passed it into the 16m50 area. Blocked by a guest defender, but Salah still managed to find a convenient position and the necessary space, to twist the shot into the near corner, defeating Ramsdale.
The atmosphere was blown back, Liverpool continued to bombard the visitors, and was rewarded with a goal to make the score 2-1 at 33 minutes. In a dispute in the middle of the pitch, Van Dijk had a ball and a long pass. up above, for Mane to open up the speed, beat goalkeeper Ramsdale in no tutoring position.
Bournemouth almost know how to stand after it. Liverpool regularly control the ball at over 70%, sometimes up to 80%. Opportunities also follow, but their strikers lack a bit of feeling to concretize, widen the gap. The most unfortunate phase of eating for the home team in the remaining time came in the 74th minute, when Mane shot the ball away from the touch point between the vertical column and the crossbar.
Win 2-1, Liverpool extended the unbeaten circuit at home in the Premier League to 55 games, including 45 victories and 10 draws. Calculated in the last 22 Premier League matches played at Anfield, Liverpool won, thereby setting a new record of the highest league in English football on the winning circuit at home.
Liverpool are three wins away from the championship (Part 1)
Against Bournemouth 2-1 in the 29th round on March 7, Liverpool were one step closer to winning the Premier League.
Sadio Mane is the hero of Liverpool’s victory. He passed the ball to teammate Mo Salah equalizing 1-1, shortly after the home team conceded. The Senegal striker then scored the goal himself, with a forte acceleration, beating the Bournemouth keeper to set the result 2-1 when the clock just scored 33 minutes.
The ungainly Van Dijk, Salah, Firmino and even Mane made Liverpool unable to score more goals in the remaining time. A 2-1 score means Liverpool have conceded for the first time and scored less than three goals against Bournemouth, after firing 17 goals and keeping clean sheets during the last five encounters. Coach Klopp is also more or less not satisfied, considering the babbling of the home defense.
However, after all, Liverpool can still smile the way the players share the joy with the fans at Anfield after the game. After two consecutive defeats, 0-3 at Watford in the Premier League and 0-2 at Chelsea at the FA Cup, Klopp’s teachers and students have returned to winning.
Not only being a little closer to the first Premier League title in history, defeating Bournemouth is also the spiritual boost needed to give Liverpool more confidence to prepare for the big battle in the Champions League mid-next week. Thursday 12/3, they will host Atletico Madrid with the task of reversing the situation after losing 0-1 away away in the first round of 1/8.
The desire to win after losing three of the last four matches makes Liverpool enter the game as if to eat the opponent alive. After only about five minutes of play, they were in complete control of the situation and at times made up to 9 in 10 Bournemouth players – not counting the goalkeeper – to retreat to the backyard to support.
In the midst of that ebbiness, Liverpool was poured into a cold water right after ninth minute. After a cross by Mane’s cross, the visitors counterattacked quickly. Host midfielder Joe Gomez made a mistake during a dispute with Callum Wilson, allowing him to pass to the right. Bournemouth coordinated another two beats, before Lerma stretched for Wilson to close the ball. VAR intervened, but still recognized the opener for the away team.
Guardiola proposed to kick it back in the FA Cup
Man City coach Pep Guardiola sees dropping the FA Cup replayings as a solution for English football to reduce the current competitive density.
“League Cup and FA Cup will still take place, but we should skip the replay, and there are fewer teams from the First Division or Premier League,” Guardiola said January 24.
The manager of Man City has repeatedly expressed concern about the players having to play too much. And Guardiola continued to speak, ahead of the FA Cup match against Fulham on Sunday 25 January – the 37th match of Man City from the beginning of the season.
However, Guardiola also asserted that in any case, Man City will always follow the FA schedule. He said: “I always try to be honest and answer questions, but I don’t think about what the FA has to do to reduce the current harsh schedules, it’s not my job. to get our team better every day. When the FA decided they had to play these games, those matches, we complied. ”
Man City are competing on all four fronts this season, including the Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup and the Premier League. But the chances of Guardiola’s teachers and students defending the Premier League title are slimmer. After 24 rounds, they are 16 points less than the top of Liverpool – the team still has a match yet to play.
Liverpool lost just two points from the start of the season, and are believed to be able to break the championship record with 100 points set by City two years ago.
Man City used to set records when some people thought that the score record in the Premier League was impossible to break. Sooner or later.” Man City ‘s record will also be surpassed, this season, or later. History always shows that, “Guardiola said casually when talking about Liverpool’ s chances.
Man Utd face fierce schedule in the first month of 2020
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s teachers and students are likely to have to play eight matches in 25 days.
After the Wolves draw on 4/1 in the third round of the FA Cup, Man Utd had three days off before the match against Man City in the first leg of the League Cup first leg. On 11/1, they will play round 22 of the English Premier League with Norwich City. And then, on January 14 or January 15, they had to replay the FA Cup third round against Wolves.
The series of torture matches with Man Utd will continue with two Premier League matches against Liverpool (January 19) and Burnley (January 22). If they enter the fourth round of the FA Cup, they will play a match on January 25 or January 26. On January 29, Man Utd will play the semi-final second leg of the English League Cup.
In December 2019, Solskjaer teachers and students each experienced the same schedule with nine matches in 30 days. The density of the pitch makes the team almost overloaded, leading to fatigue and disturbance of the squad.
Besides fitness, injury is also a problem for Man Utd. Due to thigh pain, midfielder Harry Maguire is unlikely to play the first leg of the League Cup semi-final against Man City. Midfielder Paul Pogba was also unable to play due to an ankle injury surgery.
Man Utd’s crisis of forces before the match against Man City
A series of Man Utd players are unlikely to play the first leg of the League Cup against Man City today 7/1.
Man Utd has two players who must treat long-term injuries, Paul Pogba and Scott McTominay. In addition, Jesse Lingard, Anthony Martial and Luke Shaw are not sure to recover. On January 4, during the Wolves draw in the FA Cup, the three players were absent due to physical problems.
In defense, Man Utd is also facing a difficult choice related to Harry Maguire. In the Wolves draw, the world’s most expensive defender suffered a thigh injury. Man Utd will play the semi-final first leg on the evening of 7/1 at home. On January 29, in the second leg, the two teams will meet again on the pitch of Man City.
16 teams in the 1/8 Champions League round
Spain and England both preserve their forces, as each country has four teams that qualify for the Champions League group stage.
The Champions League group stage closed on the evening of December 11, with eight leading teams each: Barca, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Leipzig, Liverpool, Man City, PSG and Valencia. Eight second-placed teams also followed in the eighth round: Atalanta, Borussia Dortmund, Chelsea, Lyon, Napoli, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Tottenham.
16 teams from five countries, also the five most powerful football backgrounds in Europe. In particular, the United Kingdom and Spain have four representatives from each country. Meanwhile, Germany and Italy have three teams, and France are two teams.
The rule of the draw for the 1/8 round is the teams in the first group meet the second group. In addition, teams from the same country, or each competing in the group stage, will not be able to meet.
Accordingly, Real is the team most at risk. The five opponents they could face: Juventus, Bayern, Leipzig, Liverpool and Man City. Barca can touch Atalanta, Chelsea, Lyon, Napoli and Tottenham. Meanwhile, potential rivals Liverpool are Real, Atalanta, Atletico, Dortmund, Lyon.
The draw will take place on Monday 16/12. The series of matches played on February 18, February 19 and February 25, February 26, 2020. The second round takes place on 10/3, 11/3 and 17/3, 18/3.
“We will eliminate Liverpool”
Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said half jokingly about the possibility of meeting Liverpool in the 1/8 Champions League round.
When asked about his ability to meet Liverpool, Zidane smiled and replied: “If we play with Liverpool, we will eliminate them. What else can we do with the lottery?”
Liverpool is one of five teams capable of meeting Real in the 1/8 round of the Champions League, alongside Bayern, Juventus, Man City and Leipzig. Of these, Leipzig is the team considered “easier” than for the former champion.
In the Champions League this season, Real is progressing slowly after a bad start. From losing to PSG 0-3 and drawing Brugge 2-2, they could win second place in Group A and tickets to the 1/8 round. In the last match, on the field of Brugge, Real won 3-1.
The victory of Brugge 3-1 also recorded Luka Jovic the rare starting kick, replacing Karim Benzema. The new Serbian rookie has only one goal and has not completely adapted to Real.
