191. Hapless Liverpool
Birmingham City are currently third from bottom in the Premier League and are in the relegation zone. However, they are not very far from the three or four teams in front of them, and the most difference is only three points, one game.
Therefore, Birmingham are not completely relegated now, and they still have a chance to stay in the Premier League. Of course, they are not in a good situation right now. They now have to make sure they win all three of their games and hope that the team ahead of him will flip in the gutter.
However, in the penultimate round of the league, Birmingham City will play Liverpool at home to the current top of the table. Liverpool are now at the top of the league table. However, they didn't bother to win the league title. At this time, in order to secure the league title, it is clear that Liverpool will go toe-to-toe with Birmingham.
This is very bad for Birmingham City relegation, because Liverpool are a lot better than them, and it will be difficult for them to get a win from Liverpool.
Liverpool's entire squad arrived in Birmingham on the day of the game, and it seems that they are not preparing for the second leg of the Champions League in three days' time. This worries the Birmingham, who were hoping that Liverpool would have a chance to get three points from Liverpool for the Champions League game in three days' time, but now it seems to be very difficult.
However, even when it is very difficult, they will not give up. They don't want relegation, they want to stay in the Premier League, so even if they're against Liverpool, they're going to have to fight. At least they still have a chance, if they don't, they don't even have a chance.
So, they are not timid, they must fight in this game.
Coming to the road, Liverpool also want to win, and now only a win can guarantee that they are getting closer and closer to the league title in Zuihou.
Now the whole Liverpool team is very cautious, even nervous. Now the most critical moment has come. At this time, there is no room for error. Losing all the games by accident, the Liverpudlians certainly don't want to collapse in Zuihou.
Qiu Ze is also trying hard to adjust himself these days to put himself in the best condition, and with less than a month left in this season's competition, he hopes to hold on to this Zuihou month and get a haode result.
Before coming to Birmingham, Qiu Ze said in an interview with reporters: "Now we don't care who our opponent is, our primary purpose is to be ourselves and give full play to our own strength, so that we can go further." ”
Other Liverpool players are also very cautious, and Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard said almost the same thing as Qiu Ze in an interview with reporters, which is very stressful, and they are a little out of breath.
After going to Birmingham, the whole Liverpool team was very cautious and did not give interviews to media reporters, they were preparing for this game wholeheartedly. Although their opponents were not strong in this game, they were not careless.
Now, Liverpool have treated Birmingham as a team at the level of Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea. They're here today with the attitude of fighting Birmingham.
If Birmingham had known what the Liverpudlians were thinking, they would have fainted. They don't want Liverpool to think of them as Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, they want Liverpool to be careless so they have a chance to win.
On the day of the game, Liverpool sent all the main lineup, and it can be seen from here that Liverpool must win this game, which is not good news for Birmingham.
The Liverpudlians dared to do so because they knew Chelsea would certainly not be holding on to this round of fixtures. Because their opponents are Manchester United, and at this time, Chelsea have not given up on the competition for the league title, and in such a game, Chelsea will certainly not dare to hold back.
Benitez knows that the Chelsea people must be more expensive than they are Liverpool, which is why he will send all his main players to fight Birmingham.
Liverpool were all in the squad and the win over Birmingham City should have been very easy, Benitez sat on the sidelines with a very relaxed expression, and he thought they could easily win this game.
However, just three minutes into the game, they Liverpool conceded a goal. At the time, Benitez was just confused, and today this luck is too bad.
It's an own goal!
Liverpool's centre-back Jamie Carragher scored a goal, but it didn't go to Liverpool, it went to Birmingham because he scored his own goal.
Birmingham's wing-back broke down the flank and swept the ball into the Liverpool penalty area with a sweeping kick. This guy's horizontal pass is using all the strength of the milk, which looks less like this guy is passing the ball, more like shooting, because the ball is very fast and liliang is huge.
The ball rolled into the Liverpool penalty area close to the turf, and such a pass was very dangerous, because the ball was so fast that the slightest touch in the penalty area would cause very unexpected things.
With a pass like this, the pressure on the goalkeeper and the centre-back on the defending side is very high, because they dare not touch it, and a touch is likely to result in an own goal.
Carragher didn't intend to touch the ball at the front of him, but the Birmingham striker behind him was already waiting, and he knew that if he didn't touch it, the Birmingham striker behind him would definitely shoot with his feet, which was very dangerous.
Therefore, in order not to give the Birmingham striker behind him a chance, Carragher fell directly to the ground and stretched out his leg to shovel the football, trying to shovel the football out of the bottom line.
But the ball was too fast, the liliang was too big, and the ball hit Carragher's foot hard, and Carragher's foot was deformed under the huge liliang, and then the ball was refracted and flew into the goal against the near post of the Liverpool goal.
1-0, Birmingham miraculously took the lead over the mighty Liverpool team, and the scene immediately resounded with the hoarse shouts and roars of the Birmingham fans.
It was a fantastic start for Birmingham and they were so excited that they could be relegated. Winning against Liverpool will certainly give them a huge confidence in their relegation, and the Birmingham fans cheered wildly.
It was a bit of a surprise but the Liverpudlians weren't knocked down, and in their opinion, it wasn't a big deal, and now that the game has just begun, they have a chance to change the scoreline. At this point, they were confident.
After the restart, Liverpool started attacking with all their might, and they didn't want to lose and leave here. Now Liverpool can't afford to lose a game, they can't afford to lose a point, and now they have to guarantee the win in order to win the league title.
On the sidelines, Rafael 61 Benitez did not sit firmly on the Diaoyutai anymore, he stood up, stood on the sidelines and urged Liverpool's players to attack, failure is unacceptable to him, and defeat is also unacceptable to the Liverpool team.
Liverpool launched a ferocious attack and quickly pushed Birmingham back into half-time, and the game began to go into half-time attack and defensive drill mode.
Now that they have a goal in hand, Birmingham certainly don't have to fight Liverpool anymore. Birmingham chose to retreat, holding on and parking a bus in front of their own goal. They want to keep the advantage of this one goal until Zuihou and until the end of the game.
Yes, Birmingham have made the right choice and if they play against Liverpool, they will definitely be stopped. Now that they're holding on, they still have a chance to win.
However, it was clear that Liverpool were not going to let Birmingham City win, and Liverpool launched a ferocious attack.
Liverpool's attack was very oppressive and threatening, and the pressure on Birmingham's defenders was so great that their movements gradually increased, and they began to use fouls to break up Liverpool's ferocious attack.
In fact, this is also a good way, but the price to pay is also very large, only 20 minutes into the first half of the game, Birmingham City has four yellow cards, if this foul continues, Birmingham is likely to be the referee to take a few people.
So, gradually, the Birminghams began to relent, but once the Birminghams did not foul, the attacking threat of the Liverpools came back to the Birmingham team, which made the Birmingham defenders exhausted.
At this moment, in the thirtieth minute of the first half of the game, Liverpool's full-back Kuyt received a pass from midfielder Qiu Ze, sprinted down the wing, broke through the Birmingham full-back, and then took the ball directly on the wing.
The ball raced into the Birmingham penalty area, and the Birmingham defenders were nervous. In the box, Liverpool's Spanish striker Fernando 61 Torres jumped high to head the ball towards Birmingham's goal. However, the ball hit the back of the Birmingham defender and bounced back.
However, the football just bounced at the feet of Qiu Ze, who rushed up towards the penalty area, and in the face of the incoming ball, Qiu Ze did not have a soft foot, and directly volleyed the football to the far lower corner of the goal. The ball clung to the turf, flying over the Birmingham goal and into the far corner.
1-1, Liverpool equalized, and the Birmingham fans at the scene couldn't help but sigh. It can be seen that the gap between Birmingham and Liverpool is really big, they can't beat Liverpool at all, and they are very lucky to be able to play like this.
At the end of the first half, Birmingham drew 1-1 at home to Liverpool. In the second half, Birmingham City still played a tight game, hoping to get at least one point, which is still very important for Birmingham City in relegation.
However, at the beginning of the second half, Liverpool broke through the goal of the Birmingham team again, and the goal was scored by Liverpool's Spanish striker Fernando 61 Torres, who received Gerrard's pass in the front, broke through two people in a row into the penalty area, and scored a direct volley in the face of the goalkeeper, and the football, passed under the crotch of the Birmingham goalkeeper and rolled into the goal.
2-1, Liverpool overtook the score, and the Birmingham fans at the scene were about to cry.
At this time, Rafael 61 Benitez began to make frequent substitutions in preparation for the second leg of the Champions League semi-final three days later. Qiu Ze, Fernando 61 Torres and Xavi 61 Alonso were substituted one after another, and Liverpool started the semi-main mode.
Benitez thought they had won the game. However, in the first minute of this game, Birmingham miraculously equalized, this time it was still Liverpool's players who scored, and this was another own goal.
Birmingham launched a ferocious comeback in the Zuihou moment, and in a minute of stoppage time, Zuihou played the ball straight from the wing and drove into the Liverpool box. In the box, Liverpool's Argentine defender Mascherano jumped high to block the ball.
However, the football slammed into this guy's body, changed direction, and the football ghost flew into the Liverpool goal.
2-2, Birmingham were extremely lucky to get a hard-won draw at their home turf.
And Liverpool got a draw away from home, which made Liverpool's manager Rafael 61 Benitez angry, this luck is simply terrible, this own goal turned out to be two, oh my God, is there more unlucky luck than this? Rafael 61 Benitez almost fainted.