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00:00The 21st century's most played English fixture and as so often before it feels
00:10substantial and this as you've heard is a designated no-room-for-racism weekend
00:16in the Premier League. The importance of the message is never diminished.
00:23And so for one to prove themselves this time an enduring contender for the other at least to have
00:34a lasting voice in the top end conversation and Arsenal slipped and City squeaked out of Wolverhampton
00:41just about intact. Liverpool Chelsea again Gary. Yeah just watching Rhys James there thinking of
00:47how many times has he come back into a Chelsea team after injury.
00:53Up against Gatco that you just saw there in shot we just hope
00:57that finally Rhys James can have a clearing of games for start since last December.
01:07Jadon Sancho stopped by Ravensburg scooped away by Salah and Tosin on halfway
01:14has become entangled with shotter. Well the difference from the Arsenal one with Salih
01:20yesterday is that there are defenders around him but it's so clumsy from Tosin.
01:30Yeah I think I think confirmed from yesterday.
01:34But it won't help Tosin's confidence he's given a pass away in the first five minutes and now he's had
01:39a big struggle and a yellow card against Jota.
01:58Jones.
02:02Salah.
02:04And Curtis Jones went over.
02:08Cole Wills head in hands. Well knees and let's have a look at it.
02:20Oh yeah he's just kicked in. He hasn't played the ball Gary he's caught Curtis Jones on the
02:26front on right leg so pads here for me won't be able to turn in my opinion. Yeah he went to
02:30kick the ball but didn't kick the ball he didn't need to make the challenge really it's a little
02:34bit rash and the shock on his face and I don't think he'll be shocked when he watches it back.
02:49Mo Salah for sure.
02:57Without compromise he clattered Liverpool in front.
03:04Well there's absolutely no messing around he just whacks it it's emphatic.
03:19And other slots.
03:22The launch of whose life in Liverpool has gone about as smoothly as conceivably
03:28it might have has further reason for uplift.
03:35So the slight squeeze behind for a corner they've just got to pull themselves together you can be
03:47okay here and all of a sudden the game can just be taken away from you in a five-minute period.
03:54And the crowd are up all of a sudden.
04:04Andy Robertson in front of the Anfield Road.
04:17Robertson within swing.
04:23Alexander-Arnold Sanchez alone.
04:28Clearing in a hurry perhaps too much of a hurry. Back by Sobislai on by Jones protected by Nunez.
04:34Taken up by Curtis Jones who's rolled it through for Mo Salah.
04:42It's offside and the most relieved man on the pitch will be the goalkeeper Sanchez
04:48he's such a poor kick his team are under massive pressure and he goes and kicks it out.
04:53All of a sudden Liverpool are on the counter and he's just in front.
05:04James and Ndweke just five additional minutes.
05:12Ndweke wants to take on Robertson again this time no way past.
05:17Swung in by Palmer and then by Van Dijk.
05:33And then by Robertson.
05:36Justo couldn't take it but Caicedo was there to sweep up.
05:40Now Grevenberg for Liverpool.
05:43And Salah and Nunez roll through here for Curtis Jones.
05:50Sanchez stood his ground. It's a penalty.
06:03The yellow card for Sanchez.
06:05It's so messy.
06:06From Sanchez.
06:07Mareskis got his arms spread.
06:09The question I think we're all asking is does Sanchez get anything on the ball?
06:12He just missed the ball completely go through his legs.
06:16And him clatter Jones that's what it looked like from up here.
06:20I mean.
06:23I don't know why he doesn't just go and spread his body.
06:25It's a really strange action from Sanchez to go like that.
06:29Unnatural I think he thinks Joe the Curtis Jones can get there and he's going to sort of have a shot
06:34and then he ends up in an unnatural position.
06:38There's a little bit of something there.
06:40I think that's one that might just bring VAR in.
06:45First contact by Sanchez.
06:47Those I think are the key words.
06:50That's the angle.
06:51That's the angle that we saw that finally brought it home that there was contact with the ball.
06:56John Brooks having been advised and having seen for himself.
07:02Both withdrawals the penalty decision and indeed the yellow card against Sanchez.
07:09It's still really clumsy work from Sanchez though.
07:13So unorthodox the way in which he goes to commit towards the ball and Curtis Jones.
07:20James.
07:22This is definitely where I would be playing if I was Shelton.
07:24Okay again to Trouble Robertson and to feed POMMER!
07:33It's been a quiet half for him.
07:34He's not been involved that much at all.
07:39He's not been involved that much at all.
07:43He's not been involved that much at all.
07:45He's not been involved that much at all.
07:49But Madwiki is the outlet for Chelsea down this side and he's got a bit of space there.
07:55Cole Palmer.
07:56And he'll really fancy his chances.
08:00Just leaning back a little bit.
08:01He just tries to almost like a strike with his instep.
08:15And that's half time.
08:24A penalty that was and a penalty that wasn't.
08:27Mo Salah converted with aplomb.
08:30The spot kick that was given for Levi Colwell's foul on Curtis Jones.
08:35But when Jones also went over Robert Sanchez the original penalty decision
08:40was overturned after VAR consultation.
08:42It's a really engaging football match and at half time at Anfield it's Liverpool 1 Chelsea 0.
08:54Liverpool seek to prolong here an extraordinary sequence
08:59of form on this ground when they have led at half time.
09:03It's 146 Premier League games here at Anfield where Liverpool have been ahead at the break
09:10that they have gone on not to lose.
09:12Jamie Carragher was in the last team that lost
09:14having led at the break against Arsenal back in 2009.
09:20And home and away 143 Premier League games where Liverpool have been ahead at half time.
09:27They haven't been beaten.
09:29It is a sequence they're defending and one which Chelsea
09:35who have not thrived on this ground of late seek if they can to terminate.
09:42Oh, Gusto.
09:54Position and positioning has been a feature of the game.
09:56Caicedo through here for Nicholas Jackson.
10:01Those are brilliant.
10:02The flag's up, the flag's up.
10:04I thought he bent his run, you know.
10:05I thought he was on the side from up here.
10:07I really did.
10:10I'll be amazed.
10:12If he was, I genuinely was almost in line with it.
10:15I think he's onside.
10:16I think the back left leg of Canouta has played him onside in my opinion.
10:20Yeah, definitely onside, definitely onside.
10:25Chelsea didn't have a shot on target in the first half.
10:28First time this season that that has occurred.
10:31I think it's time.
10:31They're going to put the lines on but he definitely looks onside.
10:42It's a goal.
10:47Chelsea fans in that behind that goal.
10:50They get a second chance to celebrate.
10:53Prompt parity at the start of the second half for Chelsea.
11:01And Nicholas Jackson leads the party in front of the blue boys.
11:08That has not taken long.
11:09It's a really good run from Jackson right the way through the middle of the two centre-backs
11:13who are quite narrow but the high.
11:17And he gets accused a lot, Nicholas Jackson, of being wasteful in front of goal
11:21but he doesn't waste anything this time.
11:24He puts it in Callaghan's near post.
11:31He thought he knew.
11:34There was a certain swagger and confidence about Nicholas Jackson.
11:38And there is a vigour now about Enzo Maresco too.
11:47Five for the season for the Senegalese.
11:53Van Dijk.
11:57Short of sight.
12:01Salah with the ball.
12:02Jones!
12:08He's been terrific.
12:12He has demanded that goal.
12:15And Liverpool have their lead back in a flash.
12:20He's been involved in everything, Curtis Jones.
12:24Liverpool's best player.
12:27By an absolute mile today.
12:33Supposedly played in that deeper role alongside Gravenberch,
12:36but he's got forward whenever he can.
12:45Yeah, Chelsea wanted offside when the ball was played in.
12:48Nunez in offside position, doesn't get involved.
12:50Jones comes from around the back and it's a good decision by the assistant referee, Simon Bennett.
12:55Yeah, well, they're playing offside, that Chelsea back line,
12:57they're holding the line at the edge of the box off Nunez,
12:59but they've not accounted for the deep run of Curtis Jones.
13:04He dilly-dallied in the first half and didn't get a shot away
13:07when Sanchez came out and he nearly got a penalty.
13:10This time he gets his shot away and he just pokes it past the goalkeeper just in time.
13:19It's a really cute finish.
13:26The first Premier League goal for Curtis Jones since New Year's Day.
13:30He slams a badge that means plenty to him, he is properly one of theirs.
13:35It's his place.
13:38And for a new boss, he has stepped up big time here.
13:44Caicedo, drifting off Sobbesleite, support from Fernandes, collected by Renato Vega.
13:53Won back by, guess who, Curtis Jones.
13:57He ran into traffic, he has a free kick.
14:00A little bit fortunate in the end, Curtis Jones.
14:06Just ran into a cul-de-sac.
14:11He just kicks through him in the end, but it's really good work initially by him.
14:15I think he gets the ball there.
14:17Maarten Berth, Munoz, Salah...
14:20Oh, smashing ball, it's Cody Gakpo for Liverpool!
14:24It's Cody Gakpo, it's high.
14:33That was brilliant.
14:36Well, very good.
14:37for Liverpool, it's Cody Gakpoetai.
14:46Brilliant play on this near side, and the switcher play is fantastic from Salah.
14:50It's perfect for Gakpoetai, Gusto can't really do anything, he's in the box.
14:56He's just desperate to try and get some sort of block in,
15:00but he's three or four yards away, it's a good chance for Gakpoetai to set it out in that far corner.
15:07FANS SHOUT OUTSIDE
15:17The dart went long.
15:29Fernandes, soberslide.
15:31Came off Fernandes, fell for Pedro Neto.
15:34Jackson's up ahead of him, Pedro Neto got a shot away.
15:39And it's skidded wide.
15:44There's a couple of little runs from Neto where he's driven inside into that space,
15:49across the line of Liverpool's back four, this time he takes the shot.
15:59Chelsea now in a tearing rush.
16:04FULL-TIME WHISTLE
16:10Vega.
16:12Gomez away.
16:15Taken back by Fernandes.
16:17Rolled up for Palma, is there still a Palma moment?
16:20Not if McAllister has his way.
16:23GARY GILLESPIE I don't think he needed to do that, McAllister.
16:27Just a little dip and that little change of pace from Paul Palma,
16:32but Diaz was with him.
16:42And the Blues can load it up.
16:44Jackson near his goal.
16:46Caldwell, Badia, Scheel, the two centre-halves at the back of the queue.
16:50Vega and Kunku in front of them.
16:54I always think with these, just get it above...
16:57Was it Andy Robertson, the first Liverpool defender in that space?
17:00Get it above his head and just get everybody running across the goalkeeper,
17:04aim for that far corner.
17:07Palma lifts it in, Vega mess it.
17:09Oh, it's a chance.
17:13It's a chance.
17:21He's just got that.
17:23Right-hand side of the goal as he looks at it.
17:25To aim at Vega.
17:31He is one of those lofty full-backs, Renato Vega,
17:34he has the build of a would-be centre-half, six feet three.
17:37He's gonna win a header.
17:39He won that one.
17:42And cleared the crossbar.
17:51Palma.
17:54Watto.
17:57Oh, Kunku!
18:02It wasn't a lot in that.
18:06It's almost like the Liverpool defence froze on the goalkeeper.
18:12Hoping more than anything that it just was too far in front of Nkunku,
18:16if he'd just got a little touch on it back across the way.
18:23Palma.
18:29He wasn't full tilt, that could have hurt.
18:32To that end, Cole Palma.
18:35Moses Caicedo.
18:38Not a good read from Gomez.
18:40Ravenberg.
18:41He tried to force it.
18:47Diaz can scurry.
18:50Nunez waits.
18:52Cousteau holds him up.
18:55McAllister.
18:58Robertson.
19:00Diaz.
19:05Luis Diaz!
19:09He's such fun.
19:14He leaves his way into the box.
19:18Doesn't come back, he almost hits across it.
19:22Nunez.
19:28Nicked by McAllister.
19:30Taken up by Diaz.
19:33Shifted beyond the reach of Nunez, who still insisted on having it.
19:37And then was penalised and struggles to control himself,
19:40as indeed does his boss.
19:42I agree.
19:43I just thought that was a straight shoulder charge.
19:45Both of them went to make the same movement.
19:52So what if something comes of it?
19:54Nkunku.
19:56The final seconds.
19:59Pedro Neto.
20:01Behind Jackson.
20:02Cousteau!
20:03What a block from Robertson.
20:05The most relieved man is the referee.
20:07And the referee ends it.
20:16And Liverpool walk on.
20:19Liverpool walk serenely on.
20:22Ten wins from eleven.
20:24On the honour slot.
20:27A game that bubbled and boiled.
20:30Became tetchy towards the end.
20:33But a game which Liverpool ultimately controlled.
20:37And hung on to win.
20:40The final score.
20:42Liverpool 2, Chelsea 1.