Returning from the Champions League to the Premier League, the ninth round of the Premier League followed.
Liverpool took the lead and welcomed Norwich City's challenge at Anfield.
With the smooth operation of the new season's technical and tactical system, Liverpool's home game was more pleasing to the eye.
Norwich City's overall strength was not strong. After resisting Liverpool with all their strength for 30 minutes, Raúl seized the opportunity to break the deadlock on the field in the penalty area.
After conceding the goal, Norwich City did not fight back, which was what Comain had predicted before.
It was helpless, but it was a reality that had to be endured.
The Premier League teams had only one choice when facing Liverpool: Defend with all their might!
Defend with all their might even if they concede a goal!
Avoid being slaughtered!
Liverpool scored one goal each in the second half with Qin Xiong and Alonso, and finally defeated Norwich City at home with a score of 3: 0.
Arsenal then played. Robin van Persie, who had begun to play well this season, became the Gunners' thigh. Arsenal beat Stoke City at home with Robin van Persie's brace and Gervinho's goal at 3: 1. The team seemed to have walked out of the shadow of consecutive defeats to Liverpool and Manchester United at the beginning of the season.
Chelsea almost "went berserk" in the London derby against Queens Park Rangers!
After a 90-minute game, almost everyone in a team had cards. This rare scene happened to Chelsea. Except for the goalkeeper Čech and the two players who were substituted in advance, all the other starting players of the Blues received cards from referee Foy. Including the substitute Ivanovic, who was also given a warning, there were a total of two red cards and seven yellow cards. It was a "spectacle" in the Premier League this round.
Chelsea was the top of the Premier League's fair play list last season and only had one red card in the whole season. And this season, under Villas-Boas, the Blues had also changed from a power-based style of play to a technical style. The entire team only committed three fouls in the game against Sunderland.
But tonight, the main referee, Foy, was like a dealing machine, continuously striking at the Blue Team.
Villas-Boas said after the game, "I think he lost control and became addicted to dealing cards to a team …"
In the 40th minute of the game, Chelsea was awarded a penalty kick and two other players were sent off with red cards, which was tantamount to a death sentence for the team.
Out of these three crucial decisions, only Drogba's red card was unquestionable. The other two decisions had areas that could be faulted.
In the ninth minute, David Luiz was sentenced to death for knocking down Helguson from behind. The Icelander fell to the ground easily, but the Brazilian defender's charge was too reckless. Foy awarded a penalty kick, and the Blues had nothing to say.
However, the problem was that when the same situation occurred twice in QPR's restricted area, Foy resolutely ignored it.
In the 67th minute, Lampard fell to the ground in the penalty area. He thought it was a foul, but Foy did not give him a penalty. Magic Lamp raised his arms in disbelief.
In the 72nd minute, Luiz fell when he tried to snatch a point in the penalty area. The video showed that the defender had obviously tackled him, but Foy again refused to award a penalty kick. Luiz held his head in surprise, and Meireles came up to receive a yellow card …
Villas-Boas said after the game that what made him angry was the different standards of the referees. "I'm very unhappy with the differential treatment of the penalties. I don't think the standards are the same."
Chelsea, who had two players sent off and a penalty kick, was finally defeated by Queens Park Rangers after 90 minutes!
The highlight of the round was to be played at Old Trafford. The Red Devils, Manchester United, faced their nemesis, Manchester City at home!
Just when the outside world thought that the madness of the Premier League had begun to subside, the big score battle between the powerhouses continued!
1:6！ A humiliating battle, a blue nightmare!
Before the eye-catching Manchester derby of this round, perhaps no one would have predicted that the final score would be so disparate. Manchester United, who was at home, suffered such a hopeless defeat.
Manchester United also suffered two consecutive crushing defeats after Arsenal. Moreover, they were defeated at the feet of their top rivals, 0: 5 and 1: 6. Both were a net loss of five goals!
In this game, the Brazilian midfielder, Anderson, who was given a heavy responsibility by Ferguson, disappointed the Scottish manager once again. His performance in both offense and defense in the 66 minutes on the field could be described as "outrageous".
Shortly after the start of the game, Anderson used facts to prove how he was not in form: in the second minute, the Brazilian did a long pass in the backfield and the ball flew out of the right sideline of the front field with too much force. In the fifth minute, Manchester United's number 8 dribbled the ball in the front field and attempted to pass it back, but the route was too obvious and was intercepted by the opponent. In the eleventh minute, Anderson passed a low ball from the right side of the front field and Manchester City's defenders, who were densely packed in the penalty area, easily cleared the siege. In the seventeenth minute, it was another mistake from Anderson: after continuously dribbling the ball from the left side of the front field, he passed it to the right side in a wide area. The landing point was not good and was intercepted by Clichy …
The offense was not good, but Anderson's defense was even worse: in the twenty-second minute, Manchester City's front field continued to cooperate. Silva passed the ball to Milner on the left side, who passed it to Balotelli in the penalty area. Evans' foot slipped and failed to block, which led to the Italian's shot into the net.
At this time, Anderson was not in his defensive position at the front of the penalty area at all. Instead, he arrived late before the opponent shot. In the thirty-seventh minute, the Brazilian midfielder rashly tackled Silva on the left side of the backfield and gave the opponent a good position free kick. In the fiftieth minute, Manchester United's defense, which was already one player short, had a gap. Anderson, who rushed back to fill the gap, directly knocked down Richards in the penalty area. Fortunately, the referee on duty, Clattenburg, did not give him a capital punishment. In the sixtieth minute, Manchester City's front field cooperated on the right side of the front field. Milner was handed over to Silva who plugged in. Anderson, who had already lost his position, chased hard but to no avail. In the end, Balotelli scored twice. In the sixty-second minute, facing Agüero who accelerated near the center circle, Anderson obviously could not keep up with his opponent's rhythm. He pulled down the Argentine striker from behind and received a yellow card. It was not until the sixty-sixth minute that the Brazilian, who seemed to be sleepwalking throughout the game, was substituted. His resentful expression confirmed one word: shame.
Perhaps Manchester United's number 8 had already known his poor performance.
It was no exaggeration to say that Anderson's performance in the game could be compiled into a long "error collection".
After the game, Sky Sports gave the Brazilian a failing score of five points: "Some mistakes were made and the midfield was not connected enough." It was second only to Evans who was sent off with a red card. Moreover, this score was given when Manchester United's team was in a collective slump.
Anderson, who was born in 1988, once won the European Golden Boy Award and was regarded as the "new Ronaldinho."
Now, this "golden boy" had faded into the crowd. His excellent performance at the beginning of the season could not even give him any "qualitative improvement." In other words, he was very lacking in ability: the Brazilian, who had played in both the defensive and attacking positions, left the impression that "he could not attack and could not defend back."
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