Chelsea returned to the top 5 of the Premier League on Sunday afternoon with a convincing 3-1 win in Liverpool.
The reigning top champions produced one of their most messed representations of the campaign when the celebrations of the past week were abruptly stopped. Enzo Fernandez ‘Opener third minute gave the tone for a one -sided affair at the Stamford Bridge. Virgil van Dijk accidentally forced Jarell Quansah’s own goal before halving the deficit himself.
Cole Palmers 96. Minutenestrafe added a gloss layer to the goal line that Chelsea’s dominant display deserved. Of course, the Victory does not change the position of Liverpool, but the hosts have raised three points in an increasingly narrow race for the qualification of the Champions League into the top 5.
How the game unfolds
Liverpool’s hot, credited honorary guard had hardly dissolved when the freshly crowned champions fell back 1-0. Chelsea fluctuated through her much changed visitors in the open three minutes and jumped down the right flank before Pedro Neto rolled the ball over the box so that Fernandez could go.
The Argentine midfielder of Chelsea was granted in the penalty area in the penalty area to touch the ball beyond Alisson and stroke cool, with Liverpool still adapting to the six changes made by Arne Slot.
The Merseyside outfit was trouble ever. Liverpool received a monopoly of ownership, but rarely in dangerous areas of the field. Cody Gakpo’s tame effort in the ninth minute, which Robert Sanchez caught, was the visitor’s only attempt for more than an hour.
Alisson was much more busy. The Brazilian had to be vigilant to suffocate a close-up stitch by Noni Madueke, who skipped Alexander-Arnold behind and through Trent. However, Alisson could not keep Jarell Quansah a comedic goal away.
Cole Palmer enjoyed one of his best performances in a largely overwhelming calendar year and floated around the Stamford Bridge with a recovered feeling of weightlessness. The English international yelts into the Byline and sent a ball into the six-yard box, which caused so much chaos that Virgil van Dijk conspired to lure a release from Quansah and beyond Alisson.
Chelsea could and would have expanded its advantage as a combination of Liverpool’s goalkeeper and woodwork that the hosts rejected. As the Fickle Footballing Fates it would have, visitors to the slot scored the next goal of the game. Van Dijk used Chelsea’s weak attempts to defend a set piece to halve the deficit with Liverpool’s second shot on the goal of the competition in the 85th minute.
There would be no tribunds for the champions that hardly threatened a trib. Instead, Palmer brought a merciful end of his 18-game goal with a punishment won by the tireless Moises Caicedo.
“You won the Premier League and deserve it,” said Enzo Maresca’s blunt reaction to the question of whether Chelsea Liverpool would clap the field as a top champions in her first game.
The Stamford Bridge amount was not quite as great and welcomed the Liverpool players with a guttural disapproval roar, which drowned the familiar stress of Chelsea’s typical walk-in music. liquidator. These spear soon turned into wild jubilation when Fernandez ‘Tor brought the Champions back to earth.
Similar to the back, the meeting of Chelsea and Liverpool was defined by the personal duel between Cole Palmer and Curtis Jones. The red sat at Angeldd mainly because Jones Palmer kept calm, as Slot recognized at the time: “He had a difficult task to control Cole Palmer, who is an incredible player with so many properties. But Curtis really did and controlled it for most of the game.”
Slot commissioned Jones with the same man-brand letter on Sunday, but Chelsea’s first two goals were the result of the English midfielder who did not result in his compatriot. Jones lost his foot twice on both sides of the half to roll the ball in Palmer’s step and give the Chelsea-Talisman enough time and space to lay the basics for Fernandez ‘Opener and to spark the chaos that ended with Quansah’s own goal.
A strenuous Jones could only continue looking when Palmer roared in the final stages between himself and Conor Bradley and made a bold stitch out of an ever heavy angle on the inside of the post.
The only time that Jones was at least ten meters from Palmer in a decisive moment of the game was when the midfielder of Liverpool observed his direct opponent in the meantime.
It was a chaotic campaign for Enzo Fernandez. The season began with an overly fast series of racism, in which the Argentine not only escaped the punishment for his hideous chants against the French national team, but also earned the status of Chelsea’s vice captain.
Maresca immediately dropped his namesake in October in front of Chelsea’s reverse game against Liverpool. “We have no indispensable players,” said the manager bluntly.
Fernandez did its best in the following six months to earn this high status. While Palmer sounds an elongated drying magic, his midfield colleague is in Red Hot Form. Fernandez ‘strike in the third minute represented his fifth direct target participation compared to Chelsea’s last four games.
The consistent quality of the two-way display of the box crashing midfielder, Moises Caicedo-a player Maresca, who has been referred to as the best defensive midfielder in the world, was referred to the role of right-back.
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