The hellish Christmas schedule is finally behind us, and for Liverpool, it's been a mixed Christmas.

They chased Manchester United by 2 points and Chelsea by 6! 3 points more than Arsenal, compared to before Christmas, the league shape shì is already very optimistic, it turns out that they want to compete for the title to see the faces of Manchester United and Chelsea, and now, he only needs to wait for Manchester United to make a mistake, and the fate of the battle with Chelsea is in Liverpool's own hands, as for the Gunners, now I am afraid that even Liverpool's back is almost gone.

Liverpool has also lost a lot, as a giant team with a cup tradition, this year Liverpool strategically abandoned the League Cup and FA Cup, and went all out to play the league and the Champions League.

However, Benitez, who has always been steady, dared to take such a risk, mainly because of Chen Yu's god-like appearance.

Chen Yu is the most valuable title in Liverpool's history, and Liverpool's investment is still in Chen Yu's injury, in a sense, this is a kind of speculation, after Chen Yu returned from injury, you can imagine how much pressure the party Chen Yu, the club and Benitez is, but Chen Yu staged a good show of the return of the king in a way that no one could imagine.

Scored 13 goals in 9 rounds, helped Liverpool win 9 consecutive league wins, brought Liverpool back into the championship group from a desperate situation, equaled Drogba in the scorer list in one fell swoop, and once again became the top scorer favorite, Chen Yu's table Xiàn completely won the trust of Benitez, and even relied on, in Benitez's view, Liverpool's last shortcomings have been filled, and now they have the ability to impact the league and the Champions League.

Cup Liverpool is no longer rare, they have five Champions Leagues, and they have won five cup titles in a season, and now in Liverpool's honor room, to be precise, Benitez's honor room is only missing a league championship trophy, for this championship, Benitez is willing to take this risk.

There was little pressure on Liverpool for the away game against Watford on January 13, their main players have been rested for a week, and the hat of the away bug has long been thrown off, and the only thing to watch in this game now is whether Chen Yu can reverse Drogba in the scorers' charts.

Because after this game, Liverpool will face a tough game against Chelsea at home, which is a game that will affect the league structure, and before that, the two top scorers will want to beat their opponents psychologically.

Now Chen Yu's league goals are 13, there are 16 rounds in the league, according to Chen Yu's goal efficiency in recent years, the final Chen Yu's goals may reach 289, the top scorer in the Premier League in the last three seasons are Henry, his goals are 27, 25, 30, if Chen Yu can score 289 goals, and Drogba did not play extraordinarily, then he is very likely to get the top scorer.

After Chen Yu scored twice in the last round of the game with Bolton, European bookmakers ranked Chen Yu's odds first, and Drogba was always in first place.

There is no suspense in this round of Chelsea, Manchester United, and Arsenal, and the focus is also on whether the strikers competing for the top scorer can continue to score, focusing on the next round, Manchester United against the Gunners, and Liverpool against Chelsea.

Drogba is also very depressed after the team has experienced three consecutive draws, he keeps scoring goals, but the team is always unable to win, now captain Terry and the main goalkeeper Cech are still unable to play, the team's defensive problems are not the coach Mourinho can be solved by naming and criticizing, Mourinho has a good understanding of Drogba, now Chelsea is in trouble, if they don't win this round, the three-point gap between them and rival Liverpool will also disappear, in this dangerous situation, Drogba is very hopeful to be able to repay Mourinho with goals and wins, pull your own mentor by hand.

Ahead of the match against Wigan Athletic, Drogba challenged Chen Yu, "...... Although we will play Liverpool in a week's time, but now we should focus on Wigan, we have conceded too many points against the weak teams this season, the team has a bit of a problem defensively, but it is not all the fault of the defenders, the defense requires the whole team to work, and in the case of a bad defense, we need to score more goals from our forwards, I will try to score more goals in this game, I want to win the Premier League top scorer once, I believe I am no worse than any striker. ”

The first kick-off was the match between Arsenal and Liverpool, Arsenal finally found their soul after Henry's return, with Henry's pass and shot, 10 men against Arsenal beat Blackburn 2-0, Henry also announced that he had joined the race for the top scorer after scoring the eighth goal.

Liverpool against Watford really did not have any suspense, Crouch scored twice, Chen Yu scored a goal and an assist, 3:0 to the Premier League vice-captain, won 10 consecutive league wins, equaled last season's winning streak, the team's forward pillar Chen Yu scored 14 goals in the scorer list temporarily surpassed Drogba by one goal.

Two hours later, the match between Manchester United and Chelsea also kicked off, Manchester United were still in solid form, South Korean star Park Ji-sung opened the scoring, midfield genius Xiao Xiao Luo doubled the score, and finally Manchester United beat Aston Villa 3-1 to maintain the points advantage against the pursuers before the Gunners battle, and Xiao Luo also scored 13 goals to tie Drogba in second place.

Chelsea had drawn three times in a row, and in the next round they had to play Liverpool, who was in great shape, although they did not dare to be careless in the face of the weak Wigan Athletic, Mourinho withstood the pressure from up and down and put Shevchenko, who was in very poor form, on the bench, leaving only Drogba in the center forward position.

Jose Mourinho has won all three of his games against Wigan since taking charge, but each time he has won by just one goal, but Chelsea were lucky enough to take the lead in the 14th minute when Frank Lampard's free-kick from 40 yards out on the left was misjudged by Wigan goalkeeper Kirkland and the ball bounced off the ground and into the far corner.

In the 33rd minute, Herstad made a mistake in Angerworth's pass, and Robben shook Kirkland and pushed the empty net into the net to extend the score to 2:0......

Chelsea sealed the win in the 70th minute when Arjen Robben burst into the left side of the box and crossed for Kirkland to make a mistake and the ball rolled under him into the net to make it 3-0.

The three goals all came by chance, Chelsea really swept away the bad luck of the Christmas period today, but Drogba, who wanted to score the most and needed to score the most, never scored, which made the Chelsea players anxious for him, and for the rest of the time, Chelsea were almost creating chances for Drogba, but Drogba couldn't get the ball into the door guarded by Crank, who was not in good form.

This situation continued until the second minute of stoppage time, Mikel crossed from the right, and the Ivorian broke away from the defender and headed the ball from 7 yards to score his 14th goal in the league this season, tying Chen Yu, who scored 14 goals first, before the battle with Liverpool, Drogba was finally not surpassed by Chen Yu, who played 13 rounds less in the league, otherwise, the old face of the African really has no place to put it.

At the end of the 23rd round, there was no significant change in the points gap and position in the standings, Manchester United is still high, Chelsea and Liverpool are still three points apart, and Arsenal have also rushed to fifth place after Tottenham were held to a draw by Fulham, but their points are a bit small, and the Gunners can only target a Champions League place until there are no serious mistakes in the last three.

Before the 23rd round, Manchester United and Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool had already attracted a lot of attention, and the games against Watford, Wigan Athletic, Blackburn Rovers and Aston Villa were just morale-boosting appetizers before the big meal.

After 23 rounds, the big battle between Manchester United and Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea quickly dominated the headlines of all sports media in England and became the focus of sports media attention throughout Europe.

Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, these are the four most successful clubs in the Premier League, the Premier League has been established for 24 years, and the championship has only been won once by a team outside the top four, and the worst Liverpool has not won a championship, but they have only once fallen out of the top four, and they also won the Champions League that year, so some fans even call these four teams the "Yu Super League" in the Premier League.

Such four teams fight each other, even if it is not related to the championship competition, the game will be the focus of this round, not to mention that the shape of the league is very delicate now, and the victory and loss between these four teams will change the championship trend of the entire Premier League.

Undoubtedly, now Manchester United is the most comfortable, they are 6 points ahead of Chelsea, 9 points ahead of Liverpool, 16 points ahead of Arsenal, however, they are not restless, if they lose to the Gunners in this game, and Manchester United's most feared Chelsea beat Liverpool, then Lord Ferguson may not sleep well, they will lose every Chelsea in these seasons, the difference of 3 points is really not a gap for Chelsea, Mourinho said before Christmas that the gap of 6 points can only be counted as 3 points, because they will definitely beat Manchester United at home.

The best result for Manchester United would of course be for them to beat Arsenal and Liverpool to beat Chelsea, giving them a nine-point lead over second place, but that is certainly not what the other three teams would like to see, regardless of their own win or defeat, all three of them will certainly have the same desire to beat Manchester United. As long as Manchester United loses, whether it is Liverpool, Chelsea or Arsenal, there is a chance. As long as United win, with more than nine points against the second place and an absolute goal difference, Ferguson's old calculations will prevent United from losing to Chelsea and Liverpool in the next two strong matches.