A Strange and Conflicting Week


I Got Two Babe

By 40 Years A Blue
October 2 2005

What a strange and conflicting week. After ONLY seven matches into the Premiership season, a couple of bookmakers have already paid out on Chelsea retaining their title.

Pundits and critics giving different views on the CL clash on Wednesday night. Some fans giving up on their team's chances on winning the title. Confusion over the terms on the long ball and a long pass (Gotta be the same surely?). But then that depends on who you support!

Stats being published that show and prove that Chelsea ARE NOT the boring team that everyone says they are! A strange and conflicting week indeed.

So back to today. Liverpool and Chelsea meet again at Anfield in the Premiership in a game that Chelsea will look to extend their lead at the top of the table and for Liverpool to show that they are better than their League position suggests.

Now that both clubs conceded their first league goals of the season last weekend - Liverpool two at Birmingham and Chelsea one at home to Villa, maybe this time could be a match where goals are a plenty.

Chelsea's League record at Anfield isn't one that you would want to boast about in the pub to your mates. Chelsea have only won 9 out of 69 matches in the League and have drawn 14. Chelsea have scored 70 goals, just over one a game whereas Liverpool have scored 144. Liverpool have won 46 times.

In the last two years however, Chelsea have won 2-1, with goals from Veron and Hasselbaink and last season 1-0 when Joey Cole scored the winner after coming off the bench.

The highest scoring game at Anfield between the two clubs was in 1946/47 when Liverpool won 7-4.

I am going for three changes to the side that started Wednesday night with Wright-Phillips, J Cole and Crespo all starting, replacing Duff, Robben and Drogba. So with that, here's our team.

Cech, Ferreira, Carvalho, Terry, Gallas, Makelele, Wright-Phillips, Lampard, Essien, Cole, Crespo.

40 YEARS A BLUE

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