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Will you be beaten to win the championship? The new Premier League champion lost to the Blues away. The last time he was hit by Manchester City.

3:37am, 10 May 2025Football

In the early morning of May 5, a focus battle was staged in the 35th round of the 2024/25 Premier League. The Blues Chelsea defeated the visiting new Premier League champion Liverpool 3-1 at home, and continued to retain the hope of qualifying for the Champions League next season. Liverpool was beaten up after winning the Premier League. And this seems to have become the tradition of the Red Army.

In the last round of the Premier League, Liverpool reversed 5-1 at home and won the Premier League championship 4 rounds ahead of schedule. This is the 20th top league championship trophy and the second Premier League championship trophy in the history of the Red Army, which is a gratifying event. In this game, Liverpool enjoyed the welcome of the home team before the start of the game.

However, Chelsea was not polite at all when facing Liverpool, which had made a large rotation. In the first 3 minutes, Enzo shot and scored a fantastic start for the Blues and led 1-0 to end the first half. After changing sides, the home team's offensive remains unabated. In the 56th minute, Palmer broke through and passed the cross, Liverpool captain Van Dijk made a mistake in clearing the ball, and the ball hit Kuanza and bounced into the net, and the Blues expanded the score lead 2-0. Liverpool scored 1 goal in the 85th minute, and Van Dijk scored a header and made up for the result. However, in the fourth minute of injury time, Kwaanza, who had previously played an own goal, made a foul in the penalty area, and Palmer took the penalty and broke the goal drought in one fell swoop, and Chelsea finally won 3-1.

Although Chelsea's possession rate was only 35%, they scored 3 goals with 7 shots and were wasting 3 excellent scoring opportunities. Liverpool only scored 1 goal with 11 shots and missed two excellent scoring opportunities. Judging from the game process, Liverpool played like a child who had just finished the college entrance examination but still had to attend classes, and his mind had already flown to the blue sky, white clouds, sunshine beach. It is worth mentioning that Liverpool also got beaten up when he won the Premier League championship last time. That time, their opponents were also wearing blue jerseys, but not the dark blue Chelsea, but the sky blue Manchester City.

In the 2019/20 season, Liverpool made great progress in the Premier League, breaking the double-digit gap between defending champion Manchester City. In the 31st round of the Premier League that season, Liverpool beat Crystal Palace 4-0 at home. As Manchester City lost 1-2 away to Chelsea in another game, Klopp's team won the Premier League championship record 7 rounds ahead of schedule.

The subsequent 32nd round of the Premier League was exactly the direct dialogue between Liverpool and Manchester City. As he walked into the Etihad Stadium, all Manchester City players lined up to send applause to the new Premier League champion. But like the Blues, Manchester City was not ruthless in the game, but started a big killing. Sterling committed a foul in the penalty area in the 25th minute and gave Gomez a yellow set, and De Bruyne took the penalty and broke the deadlock. Ten minutes later, Fordon assisted Sterling to expand the score. Before the end of the first half, De Bruyne and Foden made a wonderful cooperation and scored, and Manchester City led 3-0 to end the first half. In the 66th minute of the change of sides, Sterling pushed the ball to cause Chamberlain to own. Manchester City finally won 4-0 at home, giving Liverpool a "big gift" to win the championship.

It should be noted that in that game, Liverpool sent out all the main lineups. But it still did not stop a crushing defeat. After that defeat in defending the title, Manchester City, who learned from his mistakes, created a miracle of four consecutive Premier League titles in one fell swoop. If it weren't for Liverpool's championship in the 2019/20 season, they would have won seven consecutive Premier League titles.

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