Many people may not know that football is actually a very superstitious sport.

Some managers like to be the last person on the team to step out of the players' tunnel; Some players like to grab a handful of dirt into the court; However, it is precisely the home stadium of some of the top teams that are more superstitious.

In every box at Real Madrid's Bernabeu Stadium, there is a lucky gold coin, but where it is placed, few people know; The Camp Nou has a longer goal post circumference than La Liga standards, and many people have joked that it is no wonder that Barcelona are the team that plays the most of the posts.

In the Premier League, Manchester United's home turf is sloping, high on the left and low on the right, so Manchester United always likes to attack from left to right when picking sides, because they feel that attacking from high to low will be like a bamboo; West Ham's Upton Park stadium has a hammer buried under the home team's dugout and the right side of the goal.

This kind of trick is a bit superstitious, and no one knows whether it will be useful or not.

It's like Liverpool's Anfield Stadium, where a coin is buried at the bottom of each corner flagpole, and the corner flagpole at Anfield is a cut higher than the home stadium of other Premier League teams.

"Intrigues" like this have always been just the talk of others, but this time, at Anfield Stadium, the corner flagpole really became the protagonist of the game and did Liverpool a big favor.

Liverpool vs. Arsenal have always been the subject of attention, so this match has also attracted the attention of fans around the world, and both teams are doing their best to keep up with Chelsea.

Last season, Arsenal only lost two games, that is, home and away by Liverpool, but what is even more unacceptable is that Liverpool also relied on the advantage of winning the game to reverse Arsenal to win the championship, which was humiliated by the Gunners.

This season, Arsenal sit comfortably second in the league and are in the hunt for Chelsea, but not long ago, Liverpool reversed Arsenal again and trampled the Gunners under their feet.

The new hatred and the old hatred made the game between the two teams very hot, especially on the field.

Arsenal with Patrick Vieira, Gilberto and Campbell are never short of powder kegs, and although they claim to play the most gorgeous football in the Premier League, they are also the team with the most red cards in the Premier League.

The first half was a stalemate between the two sides, with Arsenal and Liverpool both playing steadily, neither of them being greedy for merit, and both were obviously afraid of the opponent's attacking prowess.

It wasn't until the 40th minute that Liverpool missed Arsenal's goal with a long-range shot from Steven Gerrard.

After the goal, Liverpool was even more powerful, especially the fans in the stands, and gave an overwhelming boos and curses to the Arsenal players, which is a big test for any team that is playing away.

Of course, this is not the only case at Anfield, but also for the rest of the home fans.

In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again, and Arsenal obviously consciously wanted to further strengthen the attack, especially considering that it was behind, Arsenal began to adopt a tougher, more aggressive and slightly less aggressive style of play, and Liverpool was not far behind, and the two sides moved frequently.

For this, the likes of Patrick Vieira, Steven Gerrard, Davies and Campbell were all given a yellow card.

In the 57th minute, Arsenal launched a wave of counterattacks, Henry pulled to the left side to take the ball and cut in, and after entering the penalty area, he suddenly shot from a distance, Reyna stood up in time and saved the ball, but the Spanish goalkeeper actually got rid of it.

Vieira originally thought that there was no hope, but as soon as he saw Reina get out of his hand, the ball was near him, and the French midfielder immediately stretched out his foot and poked it, and the ball went in, 1:1!

The excited Vieira happily rushed out of the penalty area, rushed directly to the corner flag, and provoked the Liverpool fans in the stands, obviously dissatisfied with the actions of the Liverpool fans just now, and even the Frenchman directly kicked the corner flagpole, which caused the Liverpool fans in the stands to scold.

Vieira was having fun, but Wenger in the distance slapped his forehead fiercely.

Sure enough, the referee ran over for the first time and raised a yellow card high at the scorer Vieira.

"Yellow card?" The French midfielder was a little surprised. "You shouldn't kick the flying corner flagpole, and all professional players should know that it's not a proper move!" The referee did not have the slightest room for negotiation, withdrew the yellow card, raised the red card again, and sent Vieira off directly.

Ironically, the entire Anfield stadium erupted in applause and cheers from the Liverpool fans as they bid farewell to Vieira.

The Frenchman was so angry that he made a silent gesture at the fans as he walked, which immediately aroused the ridicule of more Liverpool fans, and was also captured by the live camera.

Patrick Vieira's dismissal did not ease the tempers of both sides at all, on the contrary, the game became more intense.

Arsenal, which has one less person to fight, has to start thinking about defense, while Liverpool is launching a big attack, Yang Cheng is directly on Drogba, Larsson, the two forwards, plus the small Luo on the left and Robben on the right, Liverpool suddenly put four attackers in front.

There was a sudden uproar in front of Arsenal's goal, and although the Gunners retreated all the way back and put on a bucket-like formation, they were finally knocked on by Liverpool.

In the 73rd minute, Xiao Xiaoluo suddenly left the left side and rushed from the front of the penalty area to the right.

After Robben got the ball, he went straight behind him, and after Xiao Luo got the ball in the penalty area, he fell to the ground and stabbed the shot.

Lehmann blocked the right post, knelt to block the ball, and the ball rolled to the left.

Drogba in the middle deliberately missed and blocked Campbell with his body, and Larsson, who was unmarked in front of the left post, met the incoming ball and easily pushed the ball into the goal.

After the goal, Larsson and Drogba excitedly rushed out of the penalty area, the two of them were shouting something as they ran, and behind them were Liverpool players following one by one.

I saw that Larsson and the others had come to the corner flag area, and the corner flag that had been kicked by Vieira just now had been planted back in its original place.

Larsson held the corner flag and kept wiping the corner flag with his jersey, as if to wipe it clean, and they kept pointing at the corner flag at the fans.

"Are they telling the fans that the corner flag was the main contributor to the team's goal?" Andy Gray thinks this group of guys is a bit of a prank, "It's clearly mocking Vieira!" ”

The live TV camera showed Vieira and Wenger on the sidelines, and both of them had iron blue faces, especially Vieira, who gritted his teeth, and couldn't wait to rush up and beat this group of bastards.

The Liverpool fans in the stands also improvised and sang a song.

"Great Mr. Hornflag, thank you for your contribution, you helped us get that idiot off the field, we love you forever!"

The whole Anfield stadium was going crazy, and they didn't expect the players to take revenge on Vieira in this way, so the fans didn't mind falling further into the trap and making further sarcasm and ridicule.

Yang Cheng stood on the sidelines, laughing.

"Arsene Wenger must be mad right now!"

Benitez and the others all nodded in unison, and everyone would go crazy in the face of this situation.

But as long as you think of it, Larson is Yang Cheng's old subordinate, it is not difficult to understand, this guy looks serious on the surface, but in fact, he is coquettish on the inside, otherwise how could he come up with such a way to celebrate the opponent?

But this was only the first time, in the 87th minute, Liverpool scored again, this time it was Didier Drogba's goal, and the Ivorian also ran to the corner flagpole in the same way, only this time he ran to the other side, that is, close to the side of the Arsenal dugout, and wiped the corner flagpole at close range.

The fans in the stands immediately sang another song in unison.

"Mr. Hornpole said, Please, handsome Vieira, kick me! Come and kick me! ”

For this, Drogba also received a yellow card, and the referee thought that his celebration was obviously provocative, especially running under Arsenal's nose to celebrate, if you don't give you a yellow card, who will you give it to?

Although he got a yellow card, it seemed that everyone was enjoying it, including Yang Cheng.

All the things that make the opponent feel sad, Yang Cheng doesn't mind doing it!

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"Before, I wondered why there was a coin buried under the corner flagpole at Anfield, but now I know it's for this game!" At the press conference after the game, Yang Cheng faced reporters' inquiries, and he laughed and ridiculed his opponent.

Arsene Wenger sat next to him, blushing, after all, his team had just lost 3-1 to Liverpool, which directly led to the widening of the points gap between the two teams, and the Gunners would be in a very disadvantageous position on the next journey to win the title, but Liverpool, after winning Arsenal, continued to maintain pressure on Chelsea.

However, although Liverpool and Chelsea have begun to show championship appearances, especially Liverpool, whether it is from the dominance of the field or from the data, except for the defensive data, the others are better than Chelsea, and they are the number one favorite to win the championship, but Yang Cheng himself does not see it that way.

'It's too early to talk about winning the title, it's only been 15 league games and I don't think Liverpool have any qualifications to talk about winning the title now because our opponents are very good, whether it's the leaders Chelsea or Arsenal and Manchester United behind them, they are very competitive.

'This season's Premier League is more intense than any other season, and in normal times, all four teams have the quality to win the title, but now it's in the same season, and you can imagine how fierce the competition is, so I think we have to get our mentality right.

Yang Cheng refused to shout to win the championship, but Wenger took the initiative to help him shout out.

'I think Liverpool are the most deserving team to win the title this season and they have the quality to defend the Premier League title.

As for Arsenal themselves, Arsene Wenger feels both the Gunners and Manchester United have largely withdrawn from the league title race.

But Yang Cheng himself knows that the winter break and the second half are the real turning point and test.

Having personally experienced the winter break and the second half of the schedule, he knows very well that no one wants to win the title if he can't get through it, and in his hope, he also hopes that Chelsea can slow down the pace of progress during this period, and Liverpool is taking the opportunity to catch up.

But there are also a lot of problems in the team, especially in the continuous multi-line battle, Liverpool's entire 25-man first team this season has all been given ample opportunities to play, even Volnock has been given a lot of appearances, even opportunities.

Although the large rotation has alleviated Liverpool's physical problems, it has replaced them with a lack of tacit cooperation between the players, in addition to the main lineup used by Yang Cheng to compete in the league and the Champions League, the run-in of the substitute lineup is also a problem.

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In the League Cup round of 8 knockout rounds, Liverpool once again arranged a substitute lineup to challenge Tottenham Hotspur away, and in 120 minutes of play, the two sides played to a 1:1 draw, and finally turned into a penalty shootout.

Dudek is ambitious to take advantage of Reina's stupid mistake against Arsenal to snatch back the main position, and Yang Cheng is happy to see him threaten and put pressure on Reina.

In the end, Liverpool defeated Tottenham Hotspur away thanks to Dudek's excellent performance in the penalty shoot-out.

The outside world has been surprised by Liverpool's substitute lineup, because this time Liverpool is facing Tottenham Hotspur, who is playing at home and playing the main team, but this Liverpool second team has shown impressive strength.

On the contrary, Yang Cheng himself is not surprised at all, because this second team has Leyton Barnes, Volnock, Agger, Vidic, Glenn Johnson, Arshavin, Ribery, Murphy, Essien, Larsson and other powerful stars.

To be honest, the main reason is that there are a lot of changes in this set of squad personnel, and the cooperation is not tacit enough, otherwise, let alone Tottenham Hotspur, even teams like Manchester United and Chelsea are not without the power to fight. The day after the Carabao Cup was played, the two knockout legs of the semi-finals were just announced, with Liverpool meeting Manchester United, with the first leg being played at Anfield.

The other clash was a lucky draw from Watford in the Championship, and on the cards, the Blues have little problem qualifying, after all, Jose Mourinho's side will not be upset.

On the contrary, Liverpool and Manchester United, although Liverpool seem to have the upper hand, but that is in the Premier League, Manchester United no longer have any hope of winning the Premier League, so Ferguson's team is currently focusing on the cup competition.

On the other hand, Liverpool, January is a crucial period for winning the title, and they still have to make physical adjustments, so it is difficult to give it all to play a League Cup like Manchester United, after all, the gains outweigh the losses, don't they? On December 4, in the 16th round of the Premier League, Chelsea sat at home and cleanly beat Newcastle 4:0.

For this Premier League game in advance, Yang Cheng really doesn't know if he wants to say that Chelsea suddenly opened up? Or is Souness a big idiot?

But in the end, he shook his head and sighed, secretly sighing how could Newcastle's management find such a stunned young man to be the manager?

Liverpool's narrow 1-0 win away to Aston Villa, O'Reilly's side caused a lot of trouble for Liverpool at Villa Park, the former glorious coach of Leeds United is also one of Yang Cheng's headaches for the Premier League manager, but neither he nor his Aston Villa are Liverpool's opponents.

Of course, there is still the strength to have a little trouble or an upset.

Returning to Liverpool from Birmingham, Yang Cheng has made a large rotation in the final round of the upcoming Champions League group stage, with Ribery, Kuyt, Larsson, Nemanja Vidic, Glen Johnson and other players all qualified.

This half-main and half-substitute lineup helped Liverpool beat their opponents 3-1 at home.

However, it wasn't as smooth sailing as the scoreline suggests, with Olympiacos scoring the first goal and scoring in the 27th minute through a Brazilian foreign player who scored past Liverpool.

After defending all the way to the counter-attack, it was not until the second half that Liverpool reversed the opponent 3-1 with goals from Larsson, Ribery and Essien, which also allowed Liverpool to establish the title of top group player.

Monaco, who thrashed Deportivo La Coruna 5-0 away, finished second in the group.

It was another unbelievable game, as Super Laco lost so humiliatingly on his home turf and was no longer as strong and glorious as he had been in the continent in previous years.

"The finances can't keep up, and they frequently sell their star stars, and they will end up like this in the end!" Yang Cheng felt a little sorry in his heart.

That's why he's committed to helping Liverpool get out of the financial crisis, and after all, if they don't get their finances right, Liverpool will sooner or later go down the path of Deportivo La Coruna, and never want to get out of the quagmire.

Because in today's professional football, it's all about money!

Back in the Premier League, Liverpool defeated city rivals Everton 4-1 away in the 17th round and won the first derby of the season.

It's like when Yang Cheng was interviewed by the media after the game, he hit Moyes when he said that Liverpool's win was unconvincing, "I hope that through this game, Moyes and Everton fans will understand one thing, they are in the Premier League, they will always be a small team, they must have this awareness, instead of blindly trying to challenge some opponents that they can't resist at all, for example, we Liverpool!" ”

Yang Cheng's words were cheered and applauded by Liverpool fans, but made Everton fans hate them.

However, Yang Cheng did not continue to respond, he took a week of closed training camp, and a week later, on December 18, Liverpool won Newcastle at Anfield, and in the midst of all the KOPs' boos and bombardments for Souness, Liverpool defeated their opponents cleanly 3-0 to get another victory.

This season's Premier League is more user-friendly than usual, as after 18 rounds of play, the Premier League can get a week's rest to spend Christmas and then rekindle the fire on the evening of the 26th.

Therefore, after playing the 18th round of the league, the whole Premier League has added some Christmas atmosphere, but considering the long journey, many players cannot go home and can only bring their families to Liverpool to spend together.

But at this time, Chelsea suddenly announced two heavyweight transfers. [END]