December 23, 16 p.m. sharp.

Anfield Stadium.

In the nineteenth round of the Premier League, Liverpool hosted Watford.

Because it is at its own home stadium, Liverpool must win these three points, so Liverpool is playing as much as possible in this game, and Benitez directly shouted the slogan of winning three points before the game.

Liverpool still lined up in a four-four-two, with Yang Yang and Peter Crouch as the team's double striker, and Luis Garcia, Steven Gerrard, Xavi Alonso and Pennant in midfield.

Among them, Luis Garcia and Pennant will be positioned relatively far up the front, acting as wide attackers.

It was a clear advantage from the start of the game, with almost a firm grip on the situation, but the quality of the crosses from the two flanks was low, there were plenty of errors, and the first ten minutes did not create a threat.

Instead, in the 12th minute, the team changed their strategy and Crouch set up Pennant to score a goal to break the deadlock on the pitch and give Liverpool the lead.

After the replay in the second half, Benitez made adjustments, and Liverpool took the lead.

Gerrard broke through in the middle and passed through, Yang Yang got the ball in the penalty area and deftly got rid of the defender, turned and volleyed near the penalty spot to score another goal for Liverpool, which was also Yang Yang's 15th league goal this season.

After taking a two-goal lead, Liverpool continued to play steadily.

In the 66th minute, Benitez began to make a substitution, with Kuyt replacing Peter Crouch.

Just four minutes later, Yang Yang forced a breakthrough on the left flank and assisted the Dutch striker to score a goal to extend the score to 3-0.

A minute later, Rafa Benitez made two substitutions in a row, with Robbie Fowler coming on for Yang Yang and Aurelio coming on for Gerrard.

With a three-goal lead, Liverpool can be said to have decided the big picture.

In the 88th minute, Xavi Alonso scored a long-range shot to give Liverpool another goal.

Four to zero!

This is Liverpool's fourth consecutive four-goal victory.

The entire Anfield stadium was in complete revelry, with everyone very happy with Liverpool's recent performances.

Heading into December, Liverpool are starting to hit the ground running.

Benitez's rotation in the early part of the season has finally played a key role in this period, not only the main players such as Yang Yang, Gerrard, Kuyt and Xavi Alonso have performed well, but even players such as Pennant and Luis Garcia have also performed well.

The only regret is that the injury of Mohamed Sissoko has left the team's midfield defense always in danger.

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Liverpool beat Watford 4-0 at home, and the other three Premier League teams were also not left behind.

Chelsea travelled to Wigan Athletic, and after Frank Lampard and Kalou scored twice in a row, veteran centre-forward Heskey equalised for Wigan Athletic in the second half, while Arjen Robben scored the winner in the second minute of stoppage time.

In the end, the Blues narrowly beat Wigan Athletic 3-2 away.

Arsenal host Blackburn Rovers, but the latter clearly have no intention of beating the Gunners on the road.

Roundup opened the scoring for Blackburn Rovers in the opening three minutes, but soon Arsenal's Gilberto Silva, Hleb and Bam Adebayor scored three goals in a row, with Robin van Persie scoring twice and Flamini netting the sixth.

In the end, the Gunners beat Blackburn Rovers 6-2 at home.

This victory certainly made Gunners fans excited, but it also made Liverpool sweat secretly.

Because the team will face Blackburn Rovers at home in the next round.

In the Premier League, Blackburn, who has the title of violent book, is quite difficult to play at home, and from their away game against Arsenal, it is not difficult to see that they want to ensure the basic game, that is, the home game.

For all teams in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League, the Devil's schedule has to be trade-offs, and it is not possible to give it all the best in every game, which will only end up being worse.

Manchester United beat Aston Villa 3-0 away in this round and Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo scored a brace to ensure the Reds got off to a flying start in the Devil's schedule.

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Liverpool's fears have proved to be not unfounded.

December 26 is commonly known as Boxing Day.

Liverpool take on Blackburn Rovers away.

After four consecutive games with four goals in a row, Liverpool were finally breached.

The goal conceded came in the 49th minute when Blackburn's Pedel crossed from the left and McCarthy, who had played for Porto, scrambled in front of the goal.

Blackburn then faced Liverpool with a tight defensive posture.

Rafael Benitez fielded a midfield combination of Steven Gerrard and Aurelio in the first half, with Yang Yang and Crouch both on the bench and a back three, with Carragher, Aager and Hyypia starting at the same time.

This was originally hoped to make a transition and let the team survive this period of devilish fixtures, but unexpectedly, Blackburn seized the opportunity to score first, and the team's attack never came to threaten.

Rafael Benitez made a substitution from the 64th minute, first bringing on Xavi Alonso for Carragher, bringing Aurerio back to the left, and Gerrard partnering Xavi Alonso in the middle of the midfield, and the team returned to a back four.

In this way, the team has stabilized its position.

In the seventy-first minute, Yang Yang came on as a substitute and replaced Reese.

After coming on as a substitute, Yang Yang quickly created a threatening cross from the left, Xavi Alonso volleyed in from the edge of the box, slightly brushed the post and went off the line, leaving Blackburn fans in a cold sweat.

In the eighty-first minute, Finnan's accurate cross from the right side fell to the back of the penalty area, Yang Yang quickly slanted into the penalty area, grabbed this point, and directly volleyed to Blackburn's goal.

American goalkeeper Friedel was extremely excited in this game, and even flew to save Yang Yang's shot and defused a wonderful goal, but fortunately, Gerrard, who was inserted in the back row, followed up and missed the shot.

Liverpool then laid siege to Blackburn Rovers, but Friedel did brilliantly, saving Xavi Alonso and Yang Yang to keep the score 1-1 until the end.

In the end, Liverpool drew 1-1 away to Blackburn.

Benitez remains happy with the result, as the team not only picked up points away from home, but also had no injuries.

This should be the biggest hidden danger of any team playing Blackburn Rovers away.

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Several other matches were also played at the same time.

Didier Drogba put in a brace to give Chelsea the lead twice when they hosted Reading, but sadly Essien's last-goal goal gave Reading a point away from Stamford Bridge.

There is a deep feud between the two teams, especially when Chelsea played Reading in the eighth round of the season, when the main goalkeeper Petr Cech and substitute goalkeeper Cudicini went off injured and the two goalkeepers have yet to return.

Jose Mourinho was furious at not being able to win at home to Reading in this game, believing that it was not just a matter of three points, but also a missed opportunity for revenge.

Chelsea have dropped points in back-to-back draws with Liverpool, and nothing is happier than Manchester United and Arsenal.

Cristiano Ronaldo came off the bench in the second half when Reds hosted Wigan Athletic and it took him just two minutes to break the deadlock and score a brace in the 50th minute.

Wayne Rooney then set up Ole Gunnar Solskjaer for the third goal.

Manchester United ended the battle in just fourteen minutes from start to finish.

After the game, the entire British and European media were shocked by Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored two braces in a row, and everyone believed that United's no.7 had finally completed his transformation and played his best form after a season of heavy pressure in a crucial Christmas devil's schedule.

Ferguson also spoke highly of his favorite player in his post-match press conference, "I had a hunch that he could change the game, so I put him on the bench and I told him that he would change the game in the second half. ”

"As it turned out, after a tentative first half, we found the weakness and the holes in our opponents, and we ended the game with a quick cut."

'Cristiano Ronaldo has been in great form lately and I think he's hitting the pinnacle of his career and he's showing a lot of urgency himself.

Ferguson has made no secret of his favourite as a contender for Premier League Player of the Year this season.

'Before the winter break, everybody will think about Liverpool's Yang Yang or Chelsea's Didier Drogba, of course, both of them are very good, but I'm sure after the winter break, everybody will add one and that's Cristiano Ronaldo.

'All three players have great goalscoring ability, they can all push the emotions of the fans to the highest level with their performances, and we should expect them to make a huge difference in the Premier League this season.'

Arsenal also won this round.

The Gunners were levelled at Watford at one point, but a late goal from Robin van Persie saved Arsene Wenger's side and ultimately helped Arsenal take all three points away from home.

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At the end of 20 rounds, Manchester United are top of the Premier League table with 47 points, Chelsea are second with 43, Liverpool are third with 42 points, Gunners Arsenal are fourth and Bolton Wanderers are both 36 points.

Among them, Bolton Wanderers will also be the opponent of the final game of Liverpool's winter break devil's schedule.

In the scorer list, because Yang Yang did not score in this round, Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo both scored twice, so Yang Yang's goals are still fifteen, Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo are twelve and ten respectively.

Everyone is starting to believe that the competition in the Premier League is gradually starting to get more exciting and more intense.