Chelsea 1-0 Liverpool: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 6 May 2018
Result
Chelsea 1-0 Liverpool
Premier League · Sunday 6 May 2018, 15:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
Chelsea 1-0 Liverpool: match report
Chelsea defeated Liverpool 1-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 6 May 2018. It was 1-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Olivier Giroud of Chelsea in the 32nd minute.
Discipline: Chelsea received 3 yellow cards; Liverpool received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Chelsea were 5th on 66 points from 35 and Liverpool 3rd on 72 points from 36. Chelsea went on to finish that season 5th with 70 points, and Liverpool 4th with 75.
Chelsea lined up in a 3-5-1-1 and Liverpool in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Eden Hazard of Chelsea (8.1), ahead of Virgil van Dijk (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Chelsea wins, 4 draws and 3 for Liverpool.
Going into the match Chelsea's last five read W-W-W-D-L and Liverpool's D-D-W-D-W.
Key events
- 32'Goal · Olivier Giroud
- 39'Yellow card · Mohamed Salah
- 40'Yellow card · N. Clyne
- 79'Yellow card · Marcos Alonso
- 81'Yellow card · Victor Moses
- 90+4'Yellow card · Thibaut Courtois
Head-to-head
Team news
Chelsea line-up (3-5-1-1)
Thibaut Courtois, César Azpilicueta, Gary Cahill, Antonio Rüdiger, Victor Moses, Cesc Fàbregas, N'Golo Kanté, Tiemoué Bakayoko, Marcos Alonso, Eden Hazard, Olivier Giroud
Liverpool line-up (4-3-3)
Loris Karius, Nathaniel Clyne, Dejan Lovren, Virgil van Dijk, Andrew Robertson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Georginio Wijnaldum, James Milner, Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mané