League Cup quarter-finals, Anfield Stadium.

The packed stadium was shocking.

Fans of Liverpool and Manchester City have now become the most confrontational group in the Premier League.

When they are making great strides in Manchester City's league, they will not miss any opportunity to cheer for the team when the two teams are in battle.

Even if this game is just a League Cup!

Instead, it reflects the mentality of the fans!

When Situ Yunbing and Guardiola both set up a substitute rotation in this game, Fleet Street was not surprised.

The two teams will fight to the death in the league. Against the backdrop of the Devil's schedule starting three days later, the League Cup will definitely give up strategically!

Or it's like the flow!

The reason why Situ Yunbing mobilized the entire team before the war was that at this time any substitute player of Liverpool would play a huge role, such as Scotter, Vardy and others in the past.

This League Cup match can be seen as a competition between two teams and second-tier teams.

Manchester City's away style is more conservative, after all, it is a substitute lineup and cannot be as dominant as the main lineup.

The forward relies on Jesus and Bernardo Silva, which is a bit inferior to Liverpool with Griezmann, Sancho and Sane.

In the midfield, the two teams were almost strangled by engineers, and Liverpool's wing attack on the back line was obviously stronger. Guerrero and Arnold, who was almost all-time this season, can still provide more help to the offense than Manchester City!

During the game, the two teams will have an inch of land that will explode in a confrontation. Starting from the third minute of the game, the two teams will have a foul every 2 minutes on average. The continuity of the game is not strong and the excitement is greatly reduced.

Both teams retained their strength, but they would not lose the game easily!

It was obviously just a League Cup, but Guardiola and Situ Yunbing were both on the sidelines and actively commanding the game!

The simple win or loss of the game is actually not important. It may even be a good thing for both teams to withdraw from the League Cup early. After all, the League Cup semi-finals are two rounds of home and away games, which means that if you advance to eliminate your opponent in this game, then there will be at least two league cups to play before the finals!

Manchester City is stolen in the league, while Liverpool is in the multi-line battle without any time to be distracted.

But no one can lose to the opponent in front of you!

This is a momentum and psychological consideration!

Therefore, while retaining strength, the replacement rotation lineup stimulates the strongest combat power, the two coaches are very tacitly prepared before the game.

Liverpool's offensive is stronger!

Whether it is individual skills or team combat capabilities, Liverpool must perform better at home.

Although the two teams exchanged white cards in the first half, in the second half of the game, both teams received yellow cards, and Manchester City players had two more yellow cards, which led to a decrease in their intensity during defense.

In the 59th minute of the game, Griezmann received a pass from outside to Madison. After cooperating with Sancho, he entered the penalty area and then received it and directly splashed the ball away. Manchester City defensive player scored a tricky push shot and sent the ball into the far corner of the goal!

Liverpool leads Manchester City 1:0 at home!

All the Reds fans cheered wildly for Griezmann!

Situ Yunbing also clapped and reminded the team to maintain the intensity of the game!

Never give Manchester City any chance!

Guardiola looked stubborn and continued to direct the team to launch a counterattack!

Although Manchester City launched a counterattack with great momentum, its performance in the final stage of the offense was not satisfactory. Bernardo Silva still needs to significantly improve his abilities and experience, and some choices for handling the ball are not good.

In the 77th minute of the game, Sane responded to a straight pass from Guerrero from the left of the frontcourt. After successfully offside, he dribbled and cut into the penalty area. When facing defender De Nayere, he suddenly changed the ball but was tripped to the ground by his opponent.

The referee decisively awarded a penalty!

Manchester City generals protested fiercely to the referee. De Nayere fiercely accused Sane of diving, but the referee's penalty will not be changed!

Situ Yunbing was on the sidelines with his hands on his hips and looked at Manchester City's penalty area with a serious face. Guardiola kept complaining to the fourth official but received no response. He returned to the coach's seat in anger and picked up the water, took a few sips, and then just twisted the bottle cap and threw the mineral water bottle to the ground!

Liverpool's side Griezmann took the penalty and scored a penalty kick!

The moment the football flew into Manchester City's goal, Situ Yunbing turned around and faced the stands, his arms rose repeatedly, and shouted, "We are the strongest! We are the best team!"

The atmosphere in Anfield Stadium exploded!

The Red Army fans cheered at the top of their lungs!

Even the commentator and the reporters in the media seat were confused!

This is just a fucking league cup!

But Liverpool and Manchester City have played a decisive atmosphere in the championship battle!

Of course they don’t understand. The two teams who are doing their best to win the game every week, and the two teams have performed almost perfectly in the past half season, which has already sublimated the competition to another level!

Is this a League Cup?

yes!

But this is the head-on battle between the two teams destined to run through the whole season!

Liverpool leads Manchester City with two goals!

In the last 10 minutes of the game, Manchester City played high and seemed to be a bit of a loss because Jesus and Bernardo Silva were obviously not strong players of this style of play.

Before the game, Sancho missed an excellent opportunity and caused all the Reds fans to sigh, but then they received applause from the fans.

When the whistle sounded at the end of the game, Situ Yunbing raised his fists high on the sidelines with a firm look on his face. He even turned around and raised his chin slightly at Guardiola!

Guardiola did not go to see Situ Yunbing, and walked quickly towards the player channel with an unhappy look on his face.

In the League Cup, Liverpool eliminated Manchester City and entered the semi-finals!

In an interview after the game, Situ Yunbing highly praised the victory.

"If the opponent is not Manchester City, our victory will come more easily, but equally, if the opponent is not Manchester City, it will not make this victory so exciting!

When you start talking about Liverpool losing the league championship, we first eliminated Manchester City in the League Cup!

Next, we will catch up with them in the league!”

When the reporter asked Situ Yunbing, Manchester City was just a substitute!

Situ Yunbing also asked: "Isn't Liverpool? Do you see signs of Manchester City giving up the game?

Will they take it for granted to lose to Liverpool?”

Guardiola hints that Liverpool received some care at home after the game.

"From the first half, Manchester City players have more cards than Liverpool players. Obviously, with similar defensive moves, we will be called fouls, Liverpool may not, we will get yellow cards, but Liverpool just gets verbal warnings.

The penalty kick in the second half is debatable.

I don't want this to happen again the next time Manchester City visits Anfield."

Guardiola is also smart and knows to put pressure on the referee, and although this will certainly bring him a warning from the FA, it is necessary for him to do so.

Because next time Manchester City visits Anfield Stadium, if the two teams don’t meet in the FA Cup, then the two teams will meet at Anfield Stadium in the second half of the league!

As for the impact of Manchester City's elimination in the League Cup, Guardiola did not mention it at all.

Originally, Manchester City focused on the league. If the opponent was not Liverpool, even if they lost the game today, it might still make them feel relieved and be able to concentrate on preparing for each round of the league!

Fleet Street’s evaluation of this battle is: a warm-up for the decisive battle!

After the end of this League Cup, Liverpool has only two days off, and then the Christmas Devil schedule is about to start. Liverpool will go to the Emirates Stadium to challenge Arsenal in the 19th round of the league in the half-final game!

The UK has entered the Christmas holiday. Situ Yunbing's father-in-law and mother-in-law came to Liverpool to celebrate Christmas with them, and also to help take care of Siglid, who is about to be born.

The villa I live in is too big. If I were to decorate the Christmas atmosphere by myself, I would be too busy. So Situ Yunbing invited someone to decorate the home. A Christmas tree was placed in the living room of the home, and colored strips were hung. There were Christmas balls on the Christmas tree. Situ Jin also received a lot of gifts.

They were all sent by Situ Yunbing’s former or current colleagues, players he coached, as well as his friends.

This made him and Siglid helpless. They had no idea how to buy a gift for their children now!

Because Situ Jin can basically see what he sees on the market...

On the afternoon of December 22, Situ Yunbing attended a pre-match press conference at Melwood Training Base.

The News Hall is crowded with people, and major media or tabloid reporters from Fleet Street all came here to hear what Situ Yunbing would make before the game.

Maybe they will hear again the statement about Situ Yunbing declaring war on Klopp.

Situ Yunbing will not appear in front of the media as a weak person, especially under the current situation.

When the reporter asked Situ Yunbing how he viewed the situation where Liverpool was behind Manchester City and 6 points behind Arsenal in the standings, Situ Yunbing smiled and said: "If we only look at our own record, we will be satisfied, and we cannot be dissatisfied!

Because no coach would ask the team when facing such results: Why will there be a draw?!

But it is different from the previous situation, or I think this situation has never happened before!

When we looked around to see what other teams performed, we found that one team won 17 wins and 1 draw in 18 league games, and another team won 16 wins in 18 league games!

The question is, are we not performing well enough?

Obviously not!

The real problem is that we are not at the right time to compete for our results!
Chapter completed!