At 22:00 Beijing time on January 16, the 22nd round of the Premier League, Liverpool sat at home against Brentford. Fabinho scored in the first half, Oxlade-Chamberlain extended the score in the second half, Takumi Minamino added the icing on the cake, and Liverpool took a 3-0 light victory. After this campaign, Liverpool successfully overtook Chelsea and came to the second place in the table, and the runner-up battle entered a white-hot situation.
In this round of matches, Chelsea took the lead, their opponent is Manchester City, and the two teams staged a battle for the top spot. As a result, thanks to De Bruyne's world wave, Manchester City laughed 1-0 to the end, and Chelsea fell down.
Tuchel has led the team to three victories against Guardiola, including a 1-0 win in the Champions League final last season, leading the team to win the second Champions League title in the history of the team. But this time, Guardiola completed his revenge and achieved a season double against the Blues.
Chelsea ended up unbeaten in 11 games in all competitions, and were thrown off by their opponents by 13 points, which is basically desperate from the perspective of the title race. 26 hours later, Chelsea suffered another blow, and that is, Liverpool behind them also won.
Although Salah and Mane left for the Africa Cup of Nations, Liverpool launched an onslaught against Brentford from the start. In the 44th minute, Arnold's corner kick was crossed and Fabinho nodded the ball into the net, 1-0!
As a full-back, Alexander-Arnold has made 10 league assists, surpassing Salah to the top of the assists list.
Since the 18/19 season, Alexander-Arnold has contributed 42 direct assists in the Premier League, looking at the top five leagues after Muller and Messi, with a whopping 85 million!
In the 62nd minute, Jota snatched a shot at the neutral post inside the penalty area. In the 67th minute, Jota won another one-handed knife, which was saved by the opposing goalkeeper.
In the 69th minute, Robertson's long pass was precisely directed and Chamberlain rushed to the top, who scored the first goal of the season and Established Liverpool's advantage 2-0.
In the 77th minute, Firmino knocked selflessly in front of the goal, and Takushi Minano, who just passed his 26th birthday, pushed and scored, and Liverpool took a 3-0 lead. In the end, Liverpool beat the promoted team by 3 goals, without repeating the tragedy of dropping the chain 3-3 in the first leg.
After Liverpool won, they still overtook Chelsea by 2 points in the first round of the game to reach the second place in the table, and Tuchel's team dropped to 3rd!
However, Manchester City still has an advantage of 11 points, it can be said that in the Premier League, Liverpool and Chelsea no matter how you chase me, at best, they can only compete for runners-up.
It is well known that the Premier League is regarded as the most fierce league, but Guardiola has made it a monopoly, and Manchester City is getting closer and closer to winning the league title in 5 years and 4 years. So fans ridiculed Guardiola and turned the Premier League into the Bundesliga.