At 0:30 a.m. Beijing time on January 3, the 21st round of this season's Premier League is about to usher in a championship battle, with Liverpool playing away to Chelsea. Defending champions Manchester City have won this round, so that Liverpool and Chelsea can not afford to lose, this is a 6-point championship battle, which team loses will fall behind, Manchester City sits behind the mountain tiger fight, hoping that the best result will be a draw between the two teams.
As two of England's top clubs, Chelsea have won five Premier League titles and Liverpool have won the Premier League title only once. At the beginning of the season, the two teams entered the title group, forming an iron triangle with the defending champions Manchester City, and now halfway over, both teams are showing signs of falling behind.
In the last 2 rounds, Liverpool drew 2-2 with Tottenham Hotspur and lost 0-1 to Leicester City, only 1 point, Chelsea beat Aston Villa 3-1 and drew 1-1 with Brighton, got 4 points, and then in the first 2 rounds, Chelsea drew consecutively, and won 1 and 3 draws in the last 4 rounds, during which the leader Manchester City won all 4 games, and the point difference suddenly opened.
In the latest standings, Manchester City accumulated 52 points in 21 rounds, firmly in the first place and 11 points ahead, Chelsea accumulated 42 points in 20 rounds, ranking second, Liverpool ranked third with 41 points in 19 rounds, comparing points alone, Liverpool and Chelsea were thrown away by Manchester City in double digits, a month ago, the three teams were very small.
Liverpool and Chelsea play directly in this round, which team wins, retains the hope of continuing to catch up with Manchester City, that team loses, basically hopeless for the title.
According to statistics, the two teams have met 117 times in history, Liverpool has the advantage with 51 wins, 29 draws and 37 losses, while at the Premier League level, the two teams have met 59 times, Liverpool has won 23, Chelsea has 21 wins, and there are 15 draws.
In the last three Premier League away games against Chelsea, Liverpool have won 2 and drawn 1 to remain unbeaten, and the last loss was in the 2017-2018 season, when they lost 1-2.
Before the start of the game, England star Owen predicted that Arsenal would lose 1-3 at home to Manchester City, and finally Manchester City would defeat Arsenal 2-1, and for the score prediction between Liverpool and Chelsea, Owen believed that Chelsea lost 1-2 to Liverpool.
According to German transfer information, the total value of the Liverpool team is 861 million euros (about 6.2 billion yuan), the total value of the Chelsea team is 879 million euros (about 6.3 billion yuan), and the total value of the two teams is about 1.74 billion euros, which is equivalent to 12.5 billion yuan.