A Chelsea debut for Mykhailo Mudryk offered a little bit of sparkle, but broadly their goalless draw with Liverpool looked like the mid-table game it was. twoht
If the defining phrase of the last ten years of Liverpool vs Chelsea might be summed up as ‘this does not slip’, then the story of the 2022/23 season for both Jurgen Klopp and Graham Potter has been of two managers in desperate need of crampons. A conflation of injuries, unusual behaviour in the transfer market and the bewildering pace of the change of the modern world rendered this a mid-table match, ninth versus tenth in the Premier League at kick-off.
Injuries haven’t helped, but mentioning that as an explanation for this season’s dysfunction at a club whose transfer policy looks at times like a net on a fishing trawler is always going to be met with short shrift. The owners of the club continue to insist they fully support Potter and The Project, but Chelsea’s scattergun policies over managerial security over most the last two decades have made that somewhat difficult to believe.
The game settled into a predictable plot-line for a fixture between these two teams on a Saturday lunchtime, all heat and very little light, a flurry of frantic activity and intensity that yielded practically nothing in front of goal. Where those opportunities did present themselves, they largely did so for Chelsea.
Half-time arrived with both teams having made a pile of mistakes that the other could not capitalise upon because they were too busy making so many of their own. Liverpool did at least come out for the second half looking as though Klopp might have wedged a rocket up their collective backsides, but the collective result wasn’t much more energising.
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