Chelsea predictions at Liverpool: A hopeful world backs the Blues

Chelsea find themselves in the unusual position of being the neutrals’ favourite today. Nearly the entire footballing world will be cheering the Blues to prevent the unthinkable annoyance of a Liverpool title.

This game scarcely needs an introduction at this point, so let’s just jump right in to our writers’ predictions.

Scott Brant: Liverpool 1 – 1 Chelsea. The last six Premier League meetings between the two at Anfield have ended with two Chelsea wins and four draws. It happens. Sometimes a team just has another’s number. A win for either team would be massive. Liverpool will probably deserve a win, but Chelsea do enough to scrape a point. Hazard to score.

Gabe Henderson: 2 – 2. The Blues have had Liverpool’s number in recent years, even at Anfield. They were the far better side in the two previous matches against the Reds, and that trend will continue. Unfortunately, Chelsea lack a clinical finisher up front and Liverpool does not.

Callum Hudson-Odoi, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Eden Hazard will lead a brilliant attack and earn Chelsea a vital point. This will be one of the best Premier League matches of the season, no doubt.

Olaowula Nwobodo: 2 – 2. I do want Liverpool to win the league, but I also want Chelsea to crush them on Sunday. I may not get both wishes, unfortunately, or maybe not either. Considering there were enough chances in the reverse leg to suggest a different scoreline, the Blues need to convert more chances this time, but they will not find enough to produce a winner.

Karan Saini: 0 – 1. The same squad that started against West Ham last Monday should start at Anfield, with Olivier Giroud in for Gonzalo Higuain. Callum Hudson-Odoi on the right will give Andrew Robertson a tough time, and Eden Hazard will be influential as always. Should be a well contested game. Chelsea can pull this off.

Kevin Peacock: 0 – 1. Chelsea may be disadvantaged from their trip back from Prague and Liverpool may have the second best strikeforce in the Premier League, so a win for Liverpool looks a safe bet. But Chelsea can be unreliable in the results they produce and how they achieve them, and let’s not forget: this is Liverpool.

Chelsea have a good record up at Anfield in recent years. In fact, they won there earlier in the season.

I’m going to ridiculously predict a win just because I can. This game will be cagey throughout, but will be won by an own goal from an unknown Liverpool player who deflects the ball in following a flick-on by a Chelsea player who is in an offside position. The player who fed the ball to him will have handled it as he tried to control it. However, the referee and his assistants see none of it. It will forever be known as the ‘ghost-offside-own-goal’.

Sourav Mahanty: 0 – 2. Unfortunately I can’t see Chelsea getting a win away at Liverpool while they are pushing relentlessly for the title. The Blues’ attack is too one dimensional and defence too leaky to either penetrate Liverpool’s rock solid defence or prevent their brilliant front three from scoring.

My only hope is Chelsea could somehow knick one early in the second half and then put in a vintage defensive clinic. Fingers crossed.

Barrett Rouen: 0 – 2. The Blues continue to be the team who are most capable of breaking Liverpool hearts, and do it again by ruining their title chase.

Abhishek Pancholi: 2 – 0. I hope Chelsea win. I know they won’t. I expect them to put on a brave face and take the punishment for around 60 minutes, before fatigue sets in and they lose our defensive shape.

Liverpool will strike twice in quick succession, with former Blue Mohamed Salah winning a penalty before scoring the second just five minutes later. Anyone still harboring hopes of derailing Liverpool’s title challenge like Jose Mourinho did in the good old days would be well-advised to remember that Jurgen Klopp is not Brendan Rodgers, and Maurizio Sarri is not Jose “I rain on your parade” Mourinho.

Tan Yi Hao: 0 – 2. Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool are a great team, perhaps one of the greatest Premier League teams ever. There is no denying this.

But they face Chelsea, and the Blues are no pushovers. On their day, regardless of form or occasion, Chelsea are capable of turning into the tough-fighting underdog team which has brought them much of their success over the past decade.

Yes, Liverpool are good and Chelsea are undoubtedly going to be underdogs heading into this game. But Chelsea have not lost at Anfield since 2014 and, even if the title is really going to Liverpool this year, let it be known that it happened not because the Blues failed against all odds on the 14th of April 2019.