Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea: 5 Talking Points

4) Chelsea’s defence

Matic guarded the Chelsea back-four

Liverpool have recently scored multiple times against teams at Anfield, so Chelsea can feel a sense of an achievement to have kept a clean sheet for 90 minutes only to squander it in the dying minutes.

This was not a usual settled back four. Baba and Mikel, the unfamiliar faces in defence, alongside the consistent Cahill and Azpilicueta. They did have the luxury of having Nemanja Matic to sit in front of them, making the job a bit easier.

The Chelsea fullbacks were able to push on isolating the Liverpool attack from midfield and create the width that made spaces for the Chelsea attack. Cahill and Mikel were rarely dragged apart by the fluid Liverpool front line.