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For Liverpool, after the home victory over "Black Cat" Sunderland, the atmosphere in the team has returned to normal. Everyone has come out of the low mood of losing against Leicester City a few days ago.

Although it may no longer have the initiative to compete for the championship, as long as Liverpool can do their best and have an outstanding performance in the subsequent schedule, then it may not be impossible to win in the "parallel competition" with other teams. The last victory.

Anyway, Klopp doesn't believe that these top-ranked teams can really end the season with a winning streak.

After a rest week, Liverpool challenged Aston Villa away.

Liverpool's league schedule in February has been fairly easy after a difficult month of fixtures last month.

After beating the "Black Cat" Sunderland at home, today Liverpool challenged Aston Villa, the deputy squad leader of the league, in an away game.

Villa's record this year is terrible. After 25 rounds, they only scored 16 points, and they are still 8 points away from the relegation zone.

Although there is still a theoretical possibility of relegation, but with Villa's performance so far, not even scoring a point in every game, it may still return to the British Championship this year.

Villa's record at home can only be said to be quite bad, with 2 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses, but only 10 points, ranking first in the bottom of the Premier League.

At home, they were unable to win the game, mainly because of Villa's poor offensive ability.

In 12 Premier League home games, they only scored 10 goals in total, and the average goal per game was less than 1 goal. Although the team's average conceded goals per game was only 1.1, but such poor offensive ability The concentrated expression is that the team, in some games, even if they sit at home, they can't score 3 points.

A victory in 1 game is worth 3 draws in terms of points. However, when facing some mid-lower teams, Aston Villa couldn't even win.

In Liverpool's away game, Coutinho made his comeback in this game, but Lallana has entered the injury list again.

After all, in the long season, the players have bumped into each other, and it is inevitable that various injuries will occur during the game.

In many cases, as long as the injury does not affect the player's performance on the field, it is normal for players to fight with injuries.

But for today's Klopp, when facing these teams at the bottom of the standings, he has the confidence and capital to give the main players more rest time, let them recuperate from injuries, and adjust their status. More important games after preparation.

In this game, Liverpool made fine adjustments to the lineup.

In the 442 formation, the double forwards are Sturridge and Firmino.

Although Sturridge has been affected by injuries this season and his competitive state is not as good as before, Klopp still hopes that he can recover quickly. In that case, Liverpool's striker selection and offensive ability will be stronger.

Even if Sturridge is not in good condition, Klopp prefers to use Sturridge compared to Benteke in terms of trust.

That's the player style factor.

Although Benteke comes off the bench, he can sometimes play a huge role as a frontcourt fulcrum, but Klopp knows that this kind of performance can only be for a short time, and it is completed with the help of the team's previous consumption of the opponent's defensive energy. .

In the few games where Benteke started, as well as in the daily training games, it can be seen that his damage to the team's overall offense is quite large.

Playing 20 to 30 minutes, Benteke can also take advantage of the decline in the opponent's defensive players' physical fitness at the last moment, and have a very good performance.

But if this playing time is extended to the full game, it will definitely do more harm than good for Liverpool.

If you focus on Benteke, then the team's offense must use the wing as a breakthrough to achieve support for Benteke, causing other offensive players such as long-range shots and forward offensive characteristics to be unable to play.

Instead of playing on his side, Benteke's speed is a huge damage to the team's pass control system.

So even though Benteke has been asking for a fight, wants to start, and even threatens to transfer and leave, but Klopp's use of him has always been inclined to send him to play in the final stage.

Even with Benteke's worth, some of these jobs are "unsuitable", but Klopp still insists.

If Benteke really wants to leave the team, he also needs to find a suitable forward candidate for Liverpool in the summer.

At least the current record of the team is not bad, and there is still hope for the championship. Even Liverpool's top management can only grit their teeth and insist on Klopp's use of Benteke.

Liverpool's 442 lineup, Coutinho is of course a well-deserved left midfielder in the deployment of 4 midfielders, and today, in order to rehearse the team's defensive situation, and also to try to have no different starting cooperation from Jordan Ibe, Ke Lopp transferred the jack-of-all-trades Milner to the right to serve as the right midfielder.

The double defensive midfielder is Emre Can and Henderson.

Recently, Emre Can, a young midfielder who also comes from the Bundesliga, is highly valued by Klopp. He plays a similar role to Henderson and Milner. They are all-round midfielders who can attack and defend. It gave Liverpool's offensive and defensive tactics on the court and provided better protection.

Milner is definitely a treasure for Liverpool to come here without a visa this offseason.

Although he is not a direct line player of Klopp, Klopp likes Milner very much because of his panacea attributes and his fighting spirit on the field.

Midfielder, left wing, right wing, Klopp will put Milner wherever there is a shortage of players, and judging from the effect of the game, Milner plays quite well in every position and can always play his best. own value.

Although in the offensive position on the right side, Milner can't break through from the bottom, and can't play a wonderful side attack like an orthodox winger, but his excellent passing ability can still be on the right side, into the penalty area, and send out. The precise pass allowed Firmino and Sturridge's double forwards to grab points.

In the absence of Lallana, the lack of an organizer in the midfield also perfectly solved the problem of Yang Feng, who mentioned the position of the midfielder on the offensive end.

For Yang Feng, in this game, there is not so much defensive pressure, so he can move forward in the game to pass the ball to his teammates.

Not only the diversionary pass similar to the defensive midfielder, but occasionally Yang Feng will send an overhead pass, directly threatening the opponent's penalty area.

Aston Villa wanted to make some impact at home, but in the 12th minute of the game, Yang Feng's over-the-top pass accurately penetrated the home team's defense, and Sturridge's anti-offside forward went directly in the penalty area. With a volley, he broke the deadlock for Liverpool.

The subsequent games were much simpler. Liverpool players, facing away opponents who had to attack, played with ease.

Before halftime, Firmino and Milner each scored a goal to extend the score to 3-0.

In the second half of the game, Yang Feng took another corner kick and scored with a header, breaking his recent scoring drought and giving Liverpool a 4-goal lead.

After that, Sturridge and Firmino both scored twice, and Liverpool won a 6-goal victory in the away game.

In the two rounds, the goal difference was 11 goals. On the two underdogs, enough goal difference was scored to ensure that if the goal difference eased in the final league match, Liverpool would not suffer so much.