Liverpool 5-3 Chelsea - What a way to start the party! Jurgen Klopp's Reds are five-星／主役にする 支持する／優勝者s as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain puts a stop to the Blues' Christian Pulisic-奮起させるd 復帰

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Long before the festivities began, this match was 存在 played out in a 渦巻く of gunsmoke. It was somehow rather fitting. Liverpool are a team that have always played better with a whiff of cordite in the nostrils.

The 花火s had been sounding throughout the second half. 私的な and 地元の, not the 陳列する，発揮する that would 示す the トロフィー 儀式, rumoured to cost £1million. In the distance, the sound of car horns. This was a city gearing up for another monster 祝賀 and to hell with social distancing.?

Merseyside Police had 発表するd a dispersal zone in 予期 of the 爆発 to come. Probably the quietest 地元の was inside Anfield, where the 元気づけるs that 迎える／歓迎するd another match won couldn't かもしれない compete with the fervour beyond those four 塀で囲むs.?

Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson 解除するs the 首相 League トロフィー after their 5-3 勝利，勝つ over Chelsea on Wednesday night

Henderson and his Liverpool team-mates and coaching staff celebrate their 肩書を与える success at an empty Anfield

Liverpool 経営者／支配人 Jurgen Klopp celebrates at 十分な-time after guiding his club to an unforgettable （選挙などの）運動をする

Yet the 90 minutes that に先行するd the raising of Liverpool's first 首相 League トロフィー, fully 長所d the occasion. These are 広大な／多数の／重要な 支持する／優勝者s, and thi s was a 広大な／多数の／重要な game. The best team won, but Chelsea were worthy 対抗者s, who 得点する／非難する／２０d three goals but 設立する Liverpool's 反対する-attacking 質s irresistible. Jurgen Klopp's team took a 3-0 lead and while Chelsea got it 支援する, 簡潔に, to 4-3, the two goals between the teams at the end did not flatter the 勝利者s. The league （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する shows the 湾 between Liverpool and the 残り／休憩（する）, too.

So, while there were the usual distractions - not just 花火s, but a 飛行機で行く-past, and of course a ruddy 広大な／多数の／重要な トロフィー, 現在のd by a living legend on a 特に 築くd 壇・綱領・公約 in the middle of the Kop, 砂漠d but bedecked in a hundred colourful 旗s - this really, this was all about a team. And what a team it has been this season. What verve, what 技術, what 成果／努力, what relentlessness. They saw what Manchester City did last season, and were not daunted by it. They saw the 近づく impossible 基準 that had been 始める，決める and rose to it. This is one of the greatest 肩書を与える-winning teams in English football history. Their 業績／成果s will stand the 実験（する） of time.

So the whizz bangs were very pretty, but this was about 今後s that could not be 含む／封じ込めるd, 十分な-支援するs who wouldn't stop, defenders who didn't give in and a （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing heart bigger than all its competitors. It was squib enough that a group as good as Liverpool 2019-20 should have to receive their prize in 前線 of an empty Anfield, although they did as much as was humanly possible to make it a memorable experience.?

To their credit, though, they turned in a 業績／成果 worthy of the occasion. Five goals against a team that should qualify for the 支持する／優勝者s League next season is not to be 匂いをかぐd at ? and the three 譲歩するd we can probably excuse in the circumstances. Chelsea had much riding on this, too ? and they are no pushovers, as Mancheste r 部隊d discovered on Sunday.?

Liverpool midfielder Naby Keita (left) celebrates after 得点する／非難する／２０ing the 開始 goal of their enthralling match with 競争相手s Chelsea

Keita watches on as his blistering striker 飛行機で行くs over Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga to put Liverpool in 前線

The midfielder was quickly congratulated by his team-mates after his 素晴らしい goal put them ahead at Anfield

権利 支援する Trent Alexander-Arnold 二塁打d Liverpool's lead 15 minutes later with this exquisite 解放する／自由な-kick

Chelsea goalkeeper Arrizabalaga was left rooted to the 位置／汚点／見つけ出す and all he could do was watch Alexander-Arnold's 解放する／自由な-kick go in

The 21-year-old celebrates after 得点する／非難する／２０ing another 罰金 解放する／自由な-kick this season for the newly-栄冠を与えるd 首相 League 支持する／優勝者s

Georginio Wijnaldumn made it 3-0 to the はびこる Reds just before half-time with this 強くたたくing 権利-foot ボレー

The Dutchman was congratulated by his team-mates after 得点する／非難する／２０ing their third goal inside the first half at Anfield

簡潔に it seemed as if Chelsea were going to carry on where they left off. They started brightly and had the best of the 開始 20 minutes. Mason 開始する should have done better with a header 始める，決める up by Reece James, and the young 十分な-支援する went it alone soon after with a strong run and a curling 発射 that flew just wide of goal.?

Yet what followed was a demonstration of the might of this Liverpool team. The way they can take a game away from the 対立 in a furious burst of energy. Just as Ben Stokes at the crease can transform a game of cricket in a 選び出す／独身 開会／開廷／会期, so Liverpool can 勝利，勝つ a football match in a crazily short space of time. Remember how they put away Manchester City in the first-half of a 支持する／優勝者s League tie? How their sheer physicality terrified Barcelona??

Across 20 minutes here, すぐに after a passage of play that Chelsea will feel they controlled, Liverpool 急ぐd to a 3-0 lead. That, indeed, is why they are 支持する／優勝者s. It was the team up the road that once 誇るd of 抑えるのをやめるing the dogs of war ? but Liverpool have perfected the 手段. It is as if a switch is flicked and Liverpool's hounds are 解放（する）d, chasing 負かす／撃墜する the 対立 with a terrifying 集団の／共同の yelp.

All it takes is one mistake and, in the 23rd minute, Chelsea made it. A poor 通関手続き／一掃 by Cesar Azpilicueta put Liverpool on the scent, Willian 選ぶing up the loose ball, but pounced on by Naby Keita and Georginio Wijnaldum, working as a team. Wijnaldum flicked a pass to Keita who 前進するd into the space afforded and 抑えるのをやめるd a 発射 from 30 yards that had Kepa Arrizabalaga しっかり掴むing at 空気／公表する. He has a poor 記録，記録的な／記録する as a 発射-stopper this season, and this was Liverpool's first 試みる／企てる.?

Olivier Giroud gave Chelsea a lifeline on the 一打／打撃 of half-time when he pounced upon this 適切な時期 to 得点する／非難する／２０

The フラン striker runs with the ball as he looks to return to the centre circle for the game's 再開する after netting his goal

Their second 設立する the 逮捕する, too, いっそう少なく than 10 minutes later. Mateo Kovacic looked to have won a 罰金 取り組む on Sadio Mane, but 審判（をする） Andre Marriner saw it 異なって. He not only gave a foul but 調書をとる／予約するd Kovacic, a 決定／判定勝ち（する） that incensed Frank Lampard, who ended up in an angry 交流 with touchline 公式の／役人s and Jurgen Klopp's assistant Pepijn Lijnders. If he was upset before, he would have been 絶対 furious moments later, when Trent Alexander-Arnold sized up an 適切な時期 from 35 yards out and 工場／植物d it into the 最高の，を越す 権利 corner, with Arrizabalaga 絶対 flat footed. He barely moved a muscle. Still, it was a 広大な／多数の／重要な goal, and he had an 絶対 lovely 見解（をとる） of it. One for the album.?

Now Chelsea were in 混乱, a fact 確認するd five minutes later. Andrew Robertson took a corner from the left which Olivier Giroud （疑いを）晴らすd but only as far as Jorginho a yard in 前線 of him. The ball struck Jorginho's arm bringing loud Liverpool 控訴，上告s, but then fell to Wijnaldum who was in the mood for 活動／戦闘, not words. He 攻撃するd it into Chelsea's 逮捕する, the goalkeeper again 立ち往生させるd.

Had Chelsea not struck 支援する before half-time, the game could have 適切に got away from them. 開始する crossed from the left, Marcos Alonso got a flick on and Willian's touch was deflected high into the 空気／公表する, Giroud first to reach it, prodding the ball past Alisson.?

Yet Liverpool were struck soon after half-time, 回復するing their three goal advantage with a simple 反対する-attack. Alexander-Arnold crossed and Roberto Firmino was first to the ball, his header 力／強力にするd past Arrizabalaga, who again did not appear to have time to 反応する. Incredibly, it was Firmino's first 首相 League goal at Anfield this season.

Liverpool 回復するd their lead すぐに after the interval through this Roberto Firmino header in 前線 of an empty Kop

The Brazilian gets the 曲芸 out as he celebrates his goal against the west London outfit

It 明確に meant a lot to Liverpool's No 9 who finally 得点する／非難する／２０d his first 首相 League goal of the season at home

This 刺激するd Lampard to make a 無分別な of substitutions, one of which introduced a player whose absence from the start was surprising, to say the least. Klopp is a 抱擁する fan of Christian Pulisic and it has been 平易な to see why this season.?

On Wednesday night, too, as he 原因（となる）d 大虐殺 almost from the off and dragged Chelsea 支援する into the game. First, a brilliant run on the 権利 took him past three Liverpool players before squaring perfectly for Tammy Abraham - another 代用品，人 - to tap in from の近くに 範囲. Then, In the 73rd minute, Pulisic held the ball up brilliantly in the Liverpool 刑罰，罰則 area - keeping Alexander-Arnold at bay, too - before turning to 攻撃する the ball past Alisson and bring Chelsea within touching distance.

Yet trying to get the equaliser 証明するd their undoing. From a Chelsea 解放する／自由な-kick, a Liverpool 反対する-attack 調印（する）d the game. Robertson broke 負かす／撃墜する the left eluding one mistimed 試みる／企てる to stop him and crossing for Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain to finish at the far 地位，任命する. It was some game, and some night. Liverpool deserved their トロフィー, but Chelsea deserve something from this season, too. They put up a very decent supporting show here, even if we all know the main attraction .

The 残りの人，物 of the match was played out to the 背景 of 時折起こる 花火s before the 祝賀s proper began. There was a time when millions went up in smoke 定期的に at Anfield and Liverpool had nothing to show for it. Not any more. This is a team that 配達するs bang for every buck. Covid-19 dictated it was far from the perfect finale, but the players 配達するd, as they have done all season.

Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham 減ずるd the 赤字 with this の近くに-範囲 finish after an excellent run from Christian Pulisic