In the early morning of January 3, Beijing time, the 21st round of the Premier League, the top four liverpool and Chelsea showed a peak showdown, the two teams played a 2-2 draw, double brakes, which is the top of the table Manchester City like to see the situation, Manchester City further expanded the points lead, ahead of the second place Chelsea up to 10 points, with 53 points a ride, this season's competition for the Premier League championship is stable again.
As Champions League champions, Chelsea have had an ups and downs in their recent record due to injuries, and there have been 5 draws in the last 8 games (including 2-2 Liverpool in this round), Tuchel once complained that many players in the team were injured, and some of the main players were absent for up to 6 weeks, which made it more difficult for the team to compete for the title. Before the match, Chelsea's top superstar Lukaku openly challenged the team's bottom line and changed his social profile to Inter Milan, which immediately caused a huge controversy, and Tuchel had to take action to abandon it.
Tuchel sent a three-back system with Havertz at the top, Mount and Pulisic paired up as double forwards, Kante led the midfield and Thiago Silva led the backline. Chelsea were once again out of balance between attack and defence, with a rapid avalanche on the defensive end.
In the 8th minute of the game, the Chelsea backline sent a big gift from the foot of the chaotic position, Andharoba made a fatal mistake as a drag-back, and the failure to release the siege sent Mane to complete the goal after getting rid of the goalkeeper, Chelsea 0-1 Liverpool.
In the 25th minute of the game, Chelsea suffered another blow, and Alexander-Arnold's long pass found Salah who was inserted on the right side, who forced off Alonso's defense to complete a small angle to shoot the goal, and Chelsea fell behind 0-2.
In the 41st minute of the game, Chelsea attacked the end of the force, got the opportunity to set the piece in front of the goal, directly by Alonso to take a free kick to the goal, after the goalkeeper saved, Kovacic volleyed directly into the world wave, the ball hung straight to the top right corner of the dead corner, hit the goal frame and bounced into the net, Chelsea 1-2 Liverpool.
In the 45th +1 minute of the game, Chelsea continued to pursue, Kante sent an outer foot to pick out the pass, assist pulisic directly single-handedly scored, Chelsea chased the score to 2-2, in the second half, the two teams failed to rewrite the score.
According to statistics, Chelsea had 57% of the ball in the whole game, compared with Liverpool's shots of 15-10, shooting positive ratio of 6-6, and finally became 2-2. For the draw of this game, Liverpool star Carragher gave a comment, bluntly saying that Liverpool and Chelsea are difficult to catch up with Manchester City, the Premier League champions will be Manchester City, they combine the advantages of Liverpool and Chelsea's 2 giants in one, balanced attack and defense, and stable record.
Since this game is the debut of 2022, Chelsea has given birth to 2 nightmares, the first, 6 consecutive years of natural year debut without wins, 4 draws and 2 losses; second, since the beginning of last season, Chelsea has made 11 fatal mistakes in the Premier League, resulting in conceded goals, the second most in the Premier League, the most is Everton's 12. However, it was a record for 8 years against Liverpool, and for the first time since December 2013, Chelsea scored two goals at half-time against Liverpool.