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
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.
Key events
- 1'Yellow card · Sadio Mané
- 9'Goal · Sadio Mané
- 17'Yellow card · Christian Pulisic
- 26'Goal · Mohamed Salah
- 42'Goal · Mateo Kovacic
- 45+1'Goal · Christian Pulisic
- 83'Yellow card · Ibrahima Konaté
Head-to-head
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