Chelsea increased their hope to qualify for the Champions League with a 3-1 win over Champions Liverpool at Stamford Bridge.
Match report
Superb Cole Palmer ends long -term goal drought with late penalty while blues spoils the title party of the champions after fans Boo -ingerewacht.
Enzo Fernandez and Cole Palmer were on goal when the side of Enzo Maresca consolidated their place in the top five of the Premier League.
Fernandez hit after just three minutes and arranged the low cross of Pedro Neto before sliding past Alisson.
The blues doubled their lead on casual fashion in the 58th minute, when Virgil van Dijk's attempt to clear up Jarrell Quansah and in his own network.
Van Dijk gave the Reds Hoop five minutes after time when he put a header from Alexis Mac Allister's Corner home.
However, Chelsea brought the game to bed with almost the last kick of the game, while Cole Palmer slid home from the penalty spot after Quansah Moises had felled Caicedo.
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Data debrief: Red glides up while Palmer ends up at drought
Liverpool is only the fourth team that loses their first league match after they were crowned Prime Minister League champions after Arsenal in 1997-98 (against Liverpool), Chelsea in 2005-06 (against Blackburn) and the Reds itself in 2019-20 (against Manchester City).
They did not get stuck against an inspired Chelsea, who has now won seven of their last eight league games at Stamford Bridge.
Fernandez got the ball rolling after just two minutes and 47 seconds with the earliest goal of the blues on a home floor since Antonio Rudiger scored against Stoke City in December 2017 for 14 seconds earlier.
Van Dijk gave Liverpool Hope with his 13th main goal from a corner in the Premier League; A count only improved by John Terry (19) and Dion Dublin (14).
Palmer, however, had the last word when he completed an impressive display, in which he registered the most shots (five), most opportunities (four), the most joint passes in the last third (13) and joint touches in the opponent (eight) of each Chelsea player.
After 1,162 minutes, the English international finally found the net in the Premier League again, while beating Alisson calmly from 12 meters.
Match -Events
0 'The game is about to start!
1 'Salah's intersection stored!
3 'Terrible start for champions, a great Chelsea goal! Chelsea 1-0 Liverpool (Enzo)
6 'Noni Madueke has the chance to bring the score to 2-0. Great dismissal for Liverpool
9 'Gakpo Test Sanchez from a corner while Alisson breathes a big sigh of relief
10 'The goalkeeper of Liverpool has cleaned up Jackson, but the Chelsea -forecast was offside
13 'Gakpo Kruis to the back post just avoids Mohamed Salah
15 'The midfield of Liverpool is currently endo
21 'Alisson picks up the ball in a number of dangerous positions
24 'Arnold may have been offside, but a better touch of Mohamed Salah there
26 'This time it is the bad touch of Wataru Endo that stops a promising Liverpool attack
32 'Moises Caicedo's broken -off cross -clips the bar before they go out of the game
33 'Palmer loses that opportunity!
42 'Pedro Neto, just as he was for the goal, he fires a shot in the Zijsnijder
43 'Chelsea has the ball in the net. But the flag stands for offside
48 'Endo prevents Jackson from getting a toe poke on goal
51 'yellow card! Van Dijk booked
54 'yellow card! Trevoh Chalobah booked
56 'The ball touches Quansah and flies in the net for its own goal! Chelsea 2-0 Liverpool
58 'yellow card! Quansah booked
64 'Big Tackle Van Jones on Cole Palmer, who has been the excellent player of the game
66 'Gakpo's intersection stopped by Colwill
67 'Darwin Nunez has just missed a good chance of another sub
69 'Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai stand up for Liverpool
71 'Replacement for Chelsea
77 'Mohamad Salah drives a header just wide from a cost ash tsimikas cross
80 'Great Rescue by Alisson Becker denies the third goal of Chelsea via Jadon Sancho
81 'Cole Palmer touches the pole after an incredible piece of skill
83 'Federico Chiesa is underway for Liverpool
85 'Van Dijk enters from a corner !! Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool
85 'Palmer -Tests Alisson Becker after Virgil had halved the shortage by going home
87 'Neto's shot over the bar
94 'Criminal goal! Chelsea 3-1 Liverpool
Line-ups
Chelsea XI: Cucurella, Trevoh Chalobah, Robert Sánchez, Pedro Neto, Cole Palmer, Madueke, Enzo, Caicedo, Colwill, Lavia, Nicolas Jackson
Subs: Adarabioyo, Sancho, Reece James, Dewsbury-Hall, Badiashile, Jørgensen, Gusto, Josh Achampong, Tyrique George
Liverpool XI: Alisson, Endo, Salah, Van Dijk, Tsimikas, Jota, Alexander-Arnold, Gakpo, Curtis Jones, Elliott, Quansah
Subs: Robertson, Kelleher, Konate, Chiesa, Mac Allister, Szoboszlai, Luis Díaz, Nunez, Conor Bradley