Sad draw between Liverpool and Chelsea despite the millions on the Anfield pitch. Mykhailo Mudryk debuted

Liverpool and Chelsea drew 0-0 on Saturday, at Anfield, during the 21st day of the Premier League, a result that does not satisfy either of the two teams that are still far from qualifying positions in the Champions League, where Newcastle is located ( 3º) after adding another point.

If Liverpool provisionally wins a place (8th), beating Brentford on goal difference, Chelsea remains 10th, with these three teams tied on 29 points, albeit ten behind the top 4.

“In this situation, you have to be ready for small steps and this was a small step today,” manager Jürgen Klopp said, referring to his team’s slump and the Reds’ slight signs of improvement.

The match, however, seemed to start at a good pace with a goal from Kai Havertz for Chelsea, after a corner, but it was annulled after consulting the VAR, for offside.

This first warning did not encourage Liverpool to take risks, where Trent Alexander-Arnold, Fabinho, Jordan Henderson and Darwin Núñez were on the bench at the start of the matchwhile the young Spanish Stefan Bajcetic, 18, was a starter in the center of the field.

Chelsea was a bit more courageous, but ineffective, and despite a header from Benoit Badiashile at the far post, easily repelled by Alisson (32), the first period was worthy of a mid-table match.

“We wanted to win but we took the point and moved on,” said Chelsea manager Graham Potter.

Despite a little more aggressiveness after the break, the Reds were harmless.

A shot of Cody Gakpo (69), another by Núñez from a closed angle (76) hardly woke up an Anfield stadium as apathetic as his team.

Graham Potter, for his part, offered his first minutes of play at Chelsea to Mykhailo Mudryk from 55.

The new Ukrainian star who cost 100 million euros (108 million dollars) starred in a small slalom in the rival defensewith a shot that went wide (64), before failing a control, after finding himself alone at the far post after a cross from Hakim Ziyech 71).

But the 0-0 ended up being a logical score after the performance of both teams, paralyzed by the fear of individual errors and neither of them seem capable of showing themselves in the best of their form again in the short term.

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