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Liverpool still waiting to clinch Champions League football after Chelsea draw
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Liverpool still waiting to clinch Champions League football after Chelsea draw

The Independent·Carl Markham·24 days ago
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Liverpool’s wait to secure Champions League football goes on while Chelsea avoided a club record-equalling seventh straight defeat in a 1-1 draw at Anfield. The match encapsulated the hosts’ whole season in the first 45 minutes when they went ahead then retreated into their shell, allowing a team low on confidence and with a caretaker manager to grow into the game before equalising. Ryan Gravenberch’s goal was only the fourth time Liverpool have scored in the opening 15 minutes of a league fixture this season but once Virgil van Dijk volleyed over from six yards things started to go backwards for Arne Slot’s side. Enzo Fernandez’s low free-kick evaded everyone and crept inside the far post for the equaliser as Chelsea capitalised on the initiative they were handed by their passive opponents. Both teams had second-half goals disallowed by VAR for offside and Dominik Szoboszlai and Van Dijk hit the frame of the goal as Liverpool finally woke from their slumber.…

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