Chelsea 2-2 Liverpool: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 2 January 2022

Result

Chelsea 2-2 Liverpool

Premier League · Sunday 2 January 2022, 16:30 UTC · half-time 2-2

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Chelsea 2-2 Liverpool: match report

Chelsea drew with Liverpool 2-2 in the Premier League on Sunday 2 January 2022. The half-time score was 2-2.

Sadio Mané opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Chelsea's goals came from Mateo Kovacic (42') and Christian Pulisic (45+1'). Liverpool scored through Sadio Mané (9') and Mohamed Salah (26').

Discipline: Chelsea received 1 yellow card; Liverpool received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Chelsea were 2nd on 42 points from 20 and Liverpool 3rd on 41 points from 19. Chelsea went on to finish that season 3rd with 74 points, and Liverpool 2nd with 92.

Chelsea lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Liverpool in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Mateo Kovacic of Chelsea (8.4), ahead of Marcos Alonso (8.3).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Chelsea wins, 4 draws and 4 for Liverpool.

Going into the match Chelsea's last five read D-W-D-D-W and Liverpool's L-D-W-W-W.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 1'Yellow card · Sadio ManéLiverpool
  • 9'Goal · Sadio ManéLiverpool · 0-1
  • 17'Yellow card · Christian PulisicChelsea
  • 26'Goal · Mohamed SalahLiverpool · 0-2
  • 42'Goal · Mateo KovacicChelsea · 1-2
  • 45+1'Goal · Christian PulisicChelsea · 2-2
  • 83'Yellow card · Ibrahima KonatéLiverpool

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Chelsea 2, draws 4, Liverpool 4.

Team news

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Chelsea line-up (3-4-2-1)

Edouard Mendy, Trevoh Chalobah, Thiago Silva, Antonio Rüdiger, César Azpilicueta, N'Golo Kanté, Mateo Kovacic, Marcos Alonso, Mason Mount, Christian Pulisic, Kai Havertz

Liverpool line-up (4-3-3)

Caoimhín Kelleher, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Ibrahima Konaté, Virgil van Dijk, Konstantinos Tsimikas, Jordan Henderson, Fabinho, James Milner, Mohamed Salah, Diogo Jota, Sadio Mané