Chelsea 0-0 Liverpool: Drab draw encapsulates sides’ mid-table mediocrity
BBC says The sound of referee Anthony Taylor’s final whistle echoing around a rapidly emptying Stamford Bridge to the sound of silence was the perfect backing track to this non-event.
Chelsea and Liverpool have played out many epic clashes in domestic and European fixtures over the last two decades as they fought each other for the game’s biggest prizes. This was not one of them.
If those past meetings reflected their elevated status as two of the prime forces in the Premier League, Champions League, the FA Cup and League Cup, this drab affair encapsulated their current standings of eighth and 11th in the table.
It is now seven hours and 45 minutes since the last goal between these two teams, taking in the League Cup and FA Cup finals last season that were both won on penalties by Liverpool. As they ran dry of ideas, inspiration and intensity at Stamford Bridge, you suspect it could have been at least another seven hours 45 minutes before any deadlock was broken here.
Indeed, as this game descended into a morass of mediocrity after an entertaining opening phase, the placings of Liverpool in eighth and Chelsea three places below almost qualified as flattery.
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