Liverpool 0-0 Chelsea lit up by Mykhailo Mudryk’s debut
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Liverpool and Chelsea scrapped and haggled as hard as they could on Saturday before ultimately settling for a 0-0 draw at Anfield that does little for either team’s faint hopes of a top-four finish in the Premier League this season.
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Kai Havertz thought he’d scored inside three minutes after Liverpool failed to defend a corner, but VAR overturned the effort for offside and thus the game settled back into a frustrating rhythm.
It was a day of notable moments — Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp celebrating his 1000th game as manager, the English top flight (including Premier League) reportedly staging its 50,000th fixture and a debut for much-ballyhooed wide man Mykhailo Mudryk — but the match itself will not go down in the history books as the two sides fought to a frustrating stalemate.
The result leads both teams firmly stuck in mid-table, with Liverpool in eighth and Chelsea in 10th ahead of the weekend’s other fixtures, separated only by goal difference on 29 points with Brentford between them, and Chelsea having played a game more than both. Back to the drawing board, then.
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Rapid reaction
Whatever these two teams were hoping to get out of Saturday, they clearly didn’t get it, though both Klopp and Chelsea boss Graham Potter will strain and stretch to extract the positives from a goalless game that doesn’t hurt their respective missions to get back into the European places before it’s too late (don’t tell them it already might be too late, though).
For Liverpool, they didn’t lose! They conceded a goal that was disallowed! Phew! They…
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