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[VIDEO] Liverpool vs Chelsea highlights: English Premier League scores, blog

8th November, 2014
Kickoff: 23:45 AEDST, Saturday November 8 2014
Venue: Anfield, Liverpool
Head to Head: Played 168, Liverpool 74, Chelsea 59, Draw 35
Betting: Liverpool $3.30, Draw $3.50, Chelsea $2.15

Last Five Meetings
Liverpool 0-2 Chelsea (English Premier League – 27/04/14 – Anfield)
Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool (English Premier League – 29/12/13 – Stamford Bridge)
Liverpool 2-2 Chelsea (English Premier League – 21/04/13 – Anfield)
Chelsea 1-1 Liverpool (English Premier League – 11/11/12 – Stamford Bridge)
Liverpool 4-1 Chelsea (English Premier League- 08/05/12 – Anfield)
Steven Gerrard has been linked with moves back to Liverpool and Celtic, but could he go to the A-League? (AAP Image/Mark Dadswell)
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MATCH RESULT:

Chelsea have won again, and again at Anfield against Liverpool. They are simply unbeatable this season, as their record shows.

Brendan Rodgers risked his weakened team at Madrid to try and win against Chelsea. He has failed to win against Chelsea.

Whereas Chelsea cannot be beaten this season, Liverpool have now lost three in a row.

The final minutes will confirm that Liverpool should have had a penalty, but Chelsea were the better team.

Diego Costa took his chance well in the 67th minute, and aside from the penalty claim, Liverpool did little to try and get something from this.

FINAL SCORE:
Liverpool 1
Chelsea 2

MATCH PREVIEW:

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Runaway leaders Chelsea can go seven points clear at the top of the English Premier League table this weekend, as they travel north to face out-of-form Liverpool. Join The Roar for live scores and commentary from 11:45pm (AEDT).

Having endured only the occasional draw to mar an otherwise perfect domestic and European campaign thus far, Chelsea return to a ground where memories good and bad persist for Jose Mourinho.

The bad would be losing two Champions League semi-finals in his first spell as Chelsea boss, where his tactical acumen and stubbornness was returned in kind and defeated by Rafael Benitez.

The good though consists of numerous Premier League and other domestic cup victories, none more sweet than the events of six-and-a-half months ago.

There was nothing to be gained for The Special One and his team when Chelsea defeated Liverpool 2-0 last April. The Premier League title had already slipped from their grasp, and European elimination was also forthcoming.

But the competitive pleasure that Mourinho got from executing his gameplan of time wasting to perfection denied a then pugnacious and zestful Liverpool a result that could have secured their first Premier League title.

Much of the post-match rhetoric focused on ‘the slip’, which brings us to discussing the other team in this intriguing equation.

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Not much has gone right for Liverpool since Steven Gerrard lost his footing that day. If the slip lost Liverpool their ascendancy, then the ensuing defensive meltdown at Crystal Palace lost them the title.

Since then, Liverpool fans have had to watch their inspiration Luis Suarez shame himself yet again, only to then be jettisoned to Barcelona. Now they endure a season where the financial outlay has significantly and troublingly outweighed the on-field impact.

If that is not bad enough, they’ve had to endure the at-times comical impostor they have in Suarez’s place, only to then look south and see how Chelsea have built a title-winning team while also generating a profit in the transfer market.

Both teams fielded weakened teams in their European sojourns midweek, but while Chelsea can attribute that to their draw against Maribor, Liverpool arguably performed far better against Real Madrid with a team better suited for League Cup duty than they would have with an 11 featuring Gerrard, Raheem Sterling or Philippe Coutinho.

This likely creates a selection problem for Brendan Rodgers, in that his team’s desperate search for defensive stability is now coupled with a failure to score in their last 180 minutes of football. No such worries for Mourinho, as Diego Costa, Gary Cahill and Thibaut Courtois are likely to return for the Blues.

There is no victory on Saturday that can dilute Liverpool’s pain last April, nor will it heavily damage Chelsea’s season, given their current position.

All that can gained for Brendan Rodgers is a sign of better things to come, while a win for Chelsea goes further to what is taking shape as a season of triumph at Stamford Bridge.

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