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00:00Premier League and the floodlights were on long before the match as Liverpool visited Stamford Bridge for a top-of-the-table clash
00:06A venue that rarely provided much comfort and joy for Liverpool
00:09It was six long seasons since they'd even picked up a point here
00:16French duo Marcel Desailly and Emmanuel Petit were missing for the home side
00:20But Graeme Leseau had been declared fit
00:23Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank was top scorer with 12 goals
00:27Liverpool were defending a record of five consecutive clean sheets
00:30But they were without Michael Owen who hadn't travelled because of a leg injury
00:34Yari Lipmanen replaced him while Igor Bishkan was preferred to Patrick Berger
00:40Both sides had lost only twice since the season began
00:43Could Phil Thompson's men give their recuperating manager Gérard Houllier a Christmas tonic
00:48Or would Chelsea, who'd become the draw specialist of the Premier League, hold sway once again in London
00:54A match of real importance for the visitors who began the day nine points ahead of Chelsea in the table
01:00Your commentator is Ian Dark
01:06Well is this the day that the Reds break the hoodoo that they have on visits to Stamford Bridge
01:13That last victory here in 1989 goes right back to the days when
01:18John Barnes and Peter Beardsley were playing for them
01:22Mind you older Liverpool fans will remember that they did clinch the title here in 1986
01:29Kenny Dalglish and all that
01:35What Chelsea will turn up today I wonder
01:37Lampard looking to play this forward
01:40Hasselbank is called in for his first of many conversations with the officials this afternoon
01:47That's one thing you can be certain of in what is always an uncertain game
01:51It's the same towards Lipmanen but Melchiette was there and beat him in the air
01:56Lampard
01:59A little slip and Herpio was able to take over
02:02Chelsea did
02:03Win at Stamford Bridge in midweek against Newcastle and that has set them up for a glamorous
02:08Worthington Cup semi-final against
02:11Tottenham
02:12A little knock early on for Hasselbank
02:18Stanic
02:19battling away on that right-hand side
02:22A little slip
02:23and
02:24Herpio was able to take over
02:32Babayaro
02:40It's Babayaro
02:42Who's got instructions to overlap
02:44As often as he can, Leso might just tuck in field a little
02:48To allow him to do that on occasions
02:51This is Galas
02:53Who's become a favourite with the Chelsea fans, Leso
02:58Babayaro the Nigerian
03:02Those two could quite easily swap positions
03:04And it probably wouldn't harm Chelsea at all
03:10Dalabona helps it on
03:12Leso wide, now Hasselbank
03:16Now here's Leso with a great chance
03:18And he surely must score and does
03:20Chelsea are ahead in no time at all
03:25And is the Liverpool jinx at Stamford Bridge about to strike again?
03:33Well, this Liverpool defence which has kept
03:37Five consecutive clean sheets
03:39Absolutely asleep there
03:41And Leso crept in
03:43And at the second time of asking
03:45Put it in the back of the net
03:48And the Liverpool defence seem mesmerised
03:52They just didn't pick up Graham Leso's run at all
04:03Reeses up and under star clearance
04:07John Terry
04:09And Pudicini
04:11For all his gallant efforts
04:13Could not prevent the corner
04:17Terry getting rave reviews and must be close
04:21To a major call-up by Sven-Jørgen Eriksson
04:25As progress being monitored by the week
04:29McAllister though with the corner
04:31As Liverpool look to bite back quickly
04:36Herpia got the little flick on
04:37Pudicini, then off the line by Gallas
04:39And somehow it stays out of that net
04:42Herpia caused havoc with his near post header
04:49Up he goes, there's his little flick on
04:51Pudicini, great bit of work, Gallas as well
04:55And Herpia again
04:57Onto the roof of the net
05:00McAllister
05:01Herpia again is the target
05:05And this time it was Heskey
05:08Who got something on it on that near post
05:12Now this goalkeeper who came from the Italian 3rd Division
05:15To Chelsea
05:17Distinguishing himself
05:19Since his return to the side
05:20That is a fantastic save
05:22That was the first incident
05:25Stamich with the determined run
05:47Jotzi Dudek
05:49A strange experience of picking the ball
05:51Out of the back of his net
05:52He was almost beginning to forget
05:54What it felt like
06:03Carragher
06:06And that's a mistake
06:07It's set up, Hasselbeck
06:08He loves it from out there
06:10And it was on target
06:12And it required a very good save
06:14From Dudek
06:17Liverpool being hurried into errors here
06:20That's Lasso putting Carragher under pressure
06:22Possession lost
06:24Of all people to give it to
06:25Hasselbeck
06:26And didn't he get hold of it
06:31Good save
06:37Here's Lasso with the corner
06:39For a rampant Chelsea
06:43Pressure's really on and
06:45This time it's Gallabona
06:48The young Italian who
06:50Puts the ball wide
06:58Liverpool remember held at home
07:000-0 by Fulham in midweek
07:02At Anfield
07:03At Murphy
07:04Again he finds Heskey
07:06But a bit unluckily
07:08For the big striker
07:09That hit the back of his heel
07:10As he was running
07:18Chelsea by the way have drawn
07:229 of 16 matches
07:26So far
07:27Their only defeats
07:28At West Ham
07:29And at home here the other day
07:31Against Chelten
07:32Now that Gerrard gets him behind
07:34Great opportunity for the equaliser
07:36And Cunicini who's in great form
07:38Saves again
07:43But look at this
07:45It's Bishkan
07:48Has a little bit of time
07:49Looks up
07:50Sees Gerrard
07:51Now Babayaro rather sold himself
07:54And Gerrard
07:55Got past him
07:56And Terry
07:58But Cunicini made a vital save
08:00To preserve Chelsea's lead
08:05Here's the corner kick
08:15Carriger
08:19Gary McAllister
08:23Carriger once more
08:32Liverpool beginning to turn up the heat a little here
08:38Even Herpia being pushed forward to join the attack
08:41And Ancho here has given away the corner
08:44And that was needless
08:46He didn't seem under any kind of pressure
08:5825 minutes gone
08:59Chelsea 1
09:00Liverpool 0
09:03Dudek took a little knock it seemed to me
09:05On his way to the ball
09:06Said he'd well to get something on it
09:14Goal! Goal! Goal!
09:24Welcome Chelsea
09:26Rub it in with a second goal here
09:29Lasso
09:30Good pace on the ball
09:32And well won by the Liverpool defenders
09:34Galabona is the player who picks it up
09:36It's Lasso again
09:37Quickly closed down
09:39By Gary McAllister
09:45Good Johnson with the lay-off
09:48Stanich
09:49Malchut plays it in
09:52And Good Johnson
09:54Is crowded out
10:03Reeser down the line
10:05Lipmanen
10:10Now Danny Murphy
10:14He's got a more than even chance I'd say
10:17Of being in England's World Cup 22
10:19With his midfield versatility
10:21Seems to be able to play in any of the midfield positions
10:25McAllister
10:26Now Reeser
10:30Better from Liverpool
10:33Can't quite find Heskey
10:34But it's Bishkan!
10:36And once again
10:37Cudicini did enough
10:41He says there was a handball in here
10:43There
10:44One or two of the Chelsea players appealing
10:46That would have been a controversial one had it gone in
10:49Bishkan looking for his first
10:51Premiership goal
10:57Well I thought that might have touched Cudicini on the way through
11:01Goal kick given
11:06Good Johnson
11:08Finds Hasselbank
11:09It's Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank
11:11And it's 2-0
11:14Well he is an ace goalscorer and no doubt
11:25Well his goal took Chelsea into the semi-finals of the Worthington Cup
11:29Against Newcastle
11:30Good Johnson
11:34And what a lovely finish
11:35From Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank
11:39Lovely ball too
11:40From Good Johnson
11:42And Carragher was just shrugged aside
12:07Hasselbank
12:11Lampard
12:12Onto his right foot
12:14And Dudek
12:17Was in the wrong position in a way
12:19But was able to recover the ball
12:21And that was really because Lampard couldn't get the shot out from under his feet
12:26Good opportunity
12:41Bishkan's on the chase
12:44Galas was across
12:50There's the half-time whistle
12:53Stunning first half performance really
12:55By Chelsea who looked super motivated
12:57From the very first whistle
13:00Graham Lassoe and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank
13:03With the goals
13:04Lampard might have added another one too
13:06Cudicini had to make a couple of very good saves mind you
13:10One from under the bar after Herpiger had knocked on a corner kick
13:13And then
13:14A good save too from Steven Gerrard
13:16But Chelsea
13:17A good value for this lead
13:182-0
13:19At half-time
13:20To Chelsea
13:24And Chelsea who'd scored only
13:26Eight goals at home in the league all season before today
13:30Have added two here
13:37Now Claudio Ranieri
13:39Feels he's taking Chelsea in the right direction
13:42It's certainly a very hard side to beat
14:06Right joining in on the outside
14:08The substitute
14:09And Liverpool get a corner
14:19And this might be
14:21Their best hope of getting back into it
14:23Something from a set piece
14:26Not been creating too much in open play
14:31McAllister
14:32Herpiger got something on it
14:33Cudicini
14:34Off the line again
14:35And
14:36Neither Carragher
14:37Nor Lipmanen
14:38Could apply any kind of finish on the back post
14:40Risa
14:41Puts it back in there
14:42This time it's easy
14:43For Cudicini
14:44But again
14:45This goalkeeper distinguishes himself
14:50And once more
14:51It was McAllister's
14:53Chip to the near post
14:54And Herpiger's header
14:56That caused the problem
14:59McAllister
15:00Hit long
15:01Behescu's outnumbered up there
15:03Lipmanen, that's a good ball
15:04Risa
15:05On his good left foot
15:06Is that a penalty kick?
15:07Mouches
15:08Challenge
15:09And it's given
15:14The referee, Mr Halsey
15:15Is in no doubt at all
15:17And points to the spot
15:22And it's given
15:23And it's given
15:24And it's given
15:25And it's given
15:26And it's given
15:28And it's given
15:31Let's look again at the ball
15:32No, he doesn't make any contact with the ball
15:34How much contact was there with Risa?
15:38Doesn't much matter
15:39It's given
15:44And Cudicini who saved a spot kick
15:46From Kevin Phillips of Sunderland
15:48Last week
15:49Facing Gary McAllister
15:51Who has scored twice
15:52From the spot this season
15:54Though not yet in the league
15:57And he hasn't still
15:58Cudicini does it
16:00Two weeks running
16:01Can you believe it?
16:05Still 2-0
16:12And Gary McAllister's
16:14Day is ruined
16:18And now Liverpool may really start to think
16:21That there's nothing in this for them
16:28Here's Risa now being booed by the Chelsea fans
16:31Who feel he made a meal of it
16:36This is the penalty kick
16:39Cudicini guessed right
16:41And saved well low
16:46If it stays like this
16:50It's going to mean
16:51That Chelsea move up to 6th place above Tottenham Hotspur
16:58It will also mean that within 6 points of Liverpool
17:01The leaders
17:02Maybe more significantly
17:06Stanich
17:10Carragher wins it
17:14Carragher quite happy to play anywhere
17:16So long as he gets a game he says
17:18For his beloved Liverpool
17:20He was born and bred on Merseyside
17:23In fact born in Bootle
17:27And here he is in possession now
17:39Right
17:40Too long for Heskey
17:41He might get a chance to win it back
17:43Does, finds Murphy
17:44Now Risa
17:46Had to just dig the shot out from under his feet a bit
17:51Didn't have the room to really crack it hard
17:58Liverpool better in this second half
18:03Just beginning to ask some questions
18:06And they may still feel
18:10They could salvage something from this
18:17But the feeling is they need something quite soon
18:21Carragher
18:23Carragher
18:24Play on
18:26And Goodjohnson on his own
18:28With Herpia and Onsho
18:30Gets past Herpia
18:31Tries the shot
18:32Does well
18:33He really manufactured something from nothing there
18:36Ida Goodjohnson
18:43Now then Murphy for Liverpool
18:45And then McAllister
18:46Denied again
18:47By the heroic Carragher
18:49And it's gone
18:51McAllister
18:52Denied again
18:53By the heroic Carlo Cudicini
18:55What a game
18:56This goalkeeper is having
19:00Now Claudio Ranieri
19:01Said in the week
19:02That Cudicini is my number one keeper around here
19:07Ed de Huy is fit again
19:08Now he's on the bench today
19:10And I think the way this guy is playing
19:12He's gonna stay there
19:22McAllister
19:24Good ball
19:25Finds Risa
19:26Cuts inside
19:27Can he hit it with the right foot?
19:28Yes he can
19:29Cudicini with his legs this time
19:31He was committed to going the other way
19:33But just left a trailing leg in there to save it
19:36Now Hasselbank
19:38He's away here
19:39It's Jimmy Floyd
19:40Hasselbank
19:41And he can finish the argument completely
19:43But he can't
19:44Because Stefan Onsho
19:45Did a fantastic job in blocking the shot
19:48He delayed it
19:49And delayed it
19:50He delayed it
19:51And in the end
19:52He delayed it too long
19:55Here's Lasso
19:56As Chelsea try to rub salt into Liverpool wounds
19:59With a third
20:05Babayaro
20:07Nope
20:1620 minutes remaining
20:18Still plenty of time really
20:20For Liverpool
20:21Particularly if they would have just
20:23Nick one
20:25That would really change the mood of the game
20:27You feel
20:31They might have
20:32Quite easily grabbed one
20:34In this second half
20:35It's been a better performance by
20:38Liverpool
20:41Since the half time break
20:43And but for Cudicini
20:45They might have been more seriously in the argument
20:47Than they are
20:51Meanwhile
20:52Dalibona
20:54Towards
20:55Hasselbank
20:58Fed wide for Lasso
21:00Who cuts it back
21:01And it's Lampard
21:02And surely
21:03Yes by Sam
21:04Dalibona
21:063-0 Chelsea
21:08And that surely
21:09Locks up the points
21:16Relief all around
21:17Stamford Bridge
21:20Because the goal comes after
21:23A spell of Liverpool pressure
21:26Since half time
21:27Lasso's cross falls nicely for Lampard
21:30And it deflected there
21:31Off Carragher
21:33Rather freakishly
21:35Liverpool might feel
21:38To set up Dalibona
21:39Look at that
21:40First off Carragher
21:41Then off Dudek
21:42And it was an open goal
21:51Now here's Hasselbank
21:53He's got a great little burst of pace
21:56And can they finish it there
21:57With Gudjonsson
21:58No
21:59Once
22:00Twice
22:01He still can't put it in the back of the net
22:04Well either Gudjonsson
22:06Must have felt here
22:08It was just a matter of time
22:09He thought the angle was a bit difficult
22:11Hit it with the left foot
22:12That was a better angle on the volley
22:13But wide
22:21Chelsea know the points are pouched now
22:23Zendon
22:26This is played deep towards Gudjonsson
22:28But it's Dudek's
22:39And it's going to be a long trip back north
22:42For Liverpool after this one
22:43And they have to regroup
22:45And they have to regroup
22:46And they have to regroup
22:47For what is a very big match
22:49Against Arsenal
22:50Will have the chance next week
22:51To draw level with them at the top
22:54If they can win at Anfield
23:01Here's Mouchet
23:05Chelsea enjoying themselves
23:06And they might do a bit more here with Zola
23:09Pulls it back
23:10And Gudjonsson
23:11Second attempt
23:12Four goals
23:13For Chelsea
23:14And that last one
23:15Put them above Manchester United
23:17Up to fifth place
23:18Is either Gudjonsson
23:22And Liverpool
23:23Having their noses
23:25Rubbed into the Stamford Bridge dirt here
23:30Zola
23:31Lovely ball
23:32Down the side
23:34Zola looked up
23:35Picked out Gudjonsson
23:36Dudek saved first time
23:38Not second
23:39Thank you say Chelsea
23:41And it's in
23:42Thank you say Chelsea
23:46Who are
23:47Scoring their biggest win of the season
23:49And it's Liverpool's heaviest defeat
23:58Liverpool just have to hope
24:00This is a blip
24:01And normal service
24:02Is quickly resumed
24:05And they can't afford
24:07For it to become
24:08A bad trot
24:10Gerrard
24:12Rieser
24:14And Lipmanen on the volley
24:16Claims handball
24:18But the referee
24:19Blows the final whistle instead
24:21What a win
24:22For Claudio Ranieri's side
24:25And
24:26Phil Thompson has had such a great time
24:28Really
24:29Since
24:31Taking over from the
24:33Sick but happily recovering
24:35Gerrard Huliet
24:37Has a different kind of reality
24:38Crowding in on him tonight
24:41Chelsea move into fifth place
24:43With a thumping 4-0 win
24:45Over the league leaders
24:46Liverpool
24:48Chelsea 4
24:49Liverpool
24:500
24:52Well it's not every day
24:53That you beat the Premier League leaders
24:55By four goals
24:56A measure of Chelsea's achievement
24:58After their progress
24:59Had stuttered under
25:00Gianluca Vialli
25:01Claudio Ranieri
25:02Was again building
25:03A promising squad
25:04Spearheaded by the threat
25:05Of Hasselbeck
25:06Gudjonsson
25:07And Zola up front
25:09That December afternoon
25:10Wouldn't have made pleasurable viewing
25:12For Gerrard Huliet
25:13Who was recovering from a heart operation
25:15But better was to come from Liverpool that season
25:17They managed to beat Chelsea at Anfield
25:19And finished strongly enough
25:20To claim the runners-up spot
25:22Inconsistency was Chelsea's