Chelsea Didn’t Deserve To Lose, Or Win - We Ain’t Got No History
Take a sampling of Monday's reaction to Sunday's Chelsea-Liverpool match and you may come away thinking Liverpool was clearly the better side. I suppose if you're isolating the discussion to tactics, the Reds were clearly the better side, but beyond the plans, Chelsea was not far from getting a result. With Liverpool generating very few scoring opportunities, the teams bore many more similarities than differences.
At least, those were my thoughts as I covered the match, and although there may be a degree of group think involved, the idea of Chelsea not being that far from a result is also present in the match report at We Ain’t Got No History, SB Nation’s Chelsea FC community blog. As site manager Graham MacAree also notes, a couple of calls that would have evened the match may have gone against the Blues:
It would have been deliciously poignant had [David Luiz] scored on his debut rather than the far more hyped Torres, but it wasn't to be, and Liverpool ended up finishing the game fairly comfortably, partially thanks to the referre ignoring a clear Lucas handball in the box followed by a Glen Johnson foul on Branislav Ivanovic that should have also been a penalty. It's difficult to pin the loss on Marriner, however - Chelsea shouldn't be in a position where they need to rely on the referee's decision to claim points against Liverpool. They didn't deserve to lose, but they sure didn't deserve the win either.
For more of Graham’s match report, you can visit We Ain’t Got No History, SB Nation’s Chelsea blog.
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