How Steven Gerrard's fateful slip killed Liverpool's 肩書を与える dream 10 years ago today after Jose Mourinho 'parked two buses' and riled the Anfield （人が）群がる to stifle the 半端物s-on 首相 League favourites

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On April 13, 2014, Liverpool （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Manchester City 3-2 in one of the かつてない 首相 League thrillers.

Riding a wave of emotion on the 25th 周年記念日 of Hillsborough, they 嵐／襲撃するd ahead, were pegged 支援する and then won it through Philippe Coutinho in 前線 of an ecstatic Anfield.

A week later, Brendan Rodgers' red arrows - 力／強力にするd by the jet-fuelled Raheem 英貨の／純銀の and Luis Suarez - won by the same scoreline at Norwich to go five points （疑いを）晴らす of Chelsea and nine ahead of City. They'd won 11 league games in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動.

堅固に in the box seat, the red half of Merseyside dared to dream of a first league 肩書を与える since 1990. Not only that, there was a perception that Liverpool would be popular 'people's 支持する／優勝者s' after so long in the wilderness.

But, as we know, it didn't come to pass. It would take Jurgen Klopp to 解除する Liverpool's 悪口を言う／悪態 six years afterwards.

Steven Gerrard's fateful slip against Chelsea - 10 years ago today - killed Liverpool's 肩書を与える dream

Liverpool were 半端物s-on favourites to 勝利，勝つ a first league 肩書を与える since 1990 - until this 敗北・負かす

That it was Jose Mourinho who brought about their downfall made it all the more painful?

Part of the 推論する／理由 was one of the 首相 League's most cruelly seminal moments, which happened 10 years ago today - Steven Gerrard's slip.

The fact it （機の）カム against Jose Mourinho's Chelsea - whose own 肩書を与える aspirations had faded but who were 決定するd to 難破させる Liverpool's party - only 追加するd to the bitter taste.

Gerrard - for all his 巨大な 出資／貢献 to Liverpool over many years - has 認める the fateful moment which 許すd Demba Ba in to 得点する／非難する／２０ will never leave him.

It certainly won't be the moment that defines him but nor will it be easily forgotten by many.

'I park it up but it comes 支援する, all the time. What 誘発する／引き起こすs it? I don't know. TV, images, just me 反映するing,' Gerrard said in 2020.

'I've had lots and lots of moments, some incredible moments, which I never dreamed of. But your career takes you to some lows 同様に.

'It would be 平易な if you 解除するd the carpet, 押し進めるd them under and you never thought about them again. But I don't think that's ever going to be the 事例／患者.'

Gerrard's slip went 負かす／撃墜する in infamy but it was far from the only 事情に応じて変わる doors moment in a memorable season.

In the 2-1 loss at City on ボクシング Day, 英貨の／純銀の saw a goal disallowed when he was visibly onside.

A 3-2 勝利，勝つ at Norwich City - Liverpool's 11th league 勝利，勝つ on the bounce - brought the 肩書を与える closer

There was no 不足 of belief の中で Liverpool fans their 肩書を与える wait would soon be over

The streets around Anfield were thronged in 予期 of Chelsea's visit?

Kolo 小旅行する gifted West Brom's 勝利者 Anichebe an equaliser at The Hawthorns in 早期に February, while Rodgers 認める Jordan Henderson's three-match 禁止（する） for a red card in the City 勝利，勝つ was 'a 抱擁する 行方不明になる for us'.

Then, of course, there was their inexplicable 崩壊（する） from three goals up against 水晶 Palace a week after the Gerrard slip as City reached 十分な gallop to 追いつく them and 勝利，勝つ the 肩書を与える by two points.

Because City had two games in 手渡す, 最終的に it was the Chelsea loss - 調印（する）d by Willian's late second, which saw Mourinho gleefully riling up the Anfield （人が）群がる on the touchline - that took Liverpool's 肩書を与える 運命／宿命 out their 手渡すs.

Mourinho had guided Chelsea to the 肩書を与える a year earlier and relished playing the 役割 of pantomime villain.

The match at Anfield （機の）カム a few days after Chelsea had 安全な・保証するd a goalless draw away to Atletico Madrid in the first 脚 of a 支持する／優勝者s League 半分-final.

With the return at Stamford 橋（渡しをする） on the Wednesday, Mourinho had begged the 首相 League to move the Liverpool game 今後 - to no avail.

'For us it was about reaching the 支持する／優勝者s League final, but I couldn't go and play Liverpool with our Under 18s,' Mourinho 解任するd to The Obi One Podcast?last year.

'It wouldn't have been fair on Man City for us to go there even with our second team, so we 手配中の，お尋ね者 to do things in the 権利 way.'

Mourinho did make some changes - 含むing bringing in Tomas Kalas with John Terry out 負傷させるd to 成し遂げる a spoiling 職業 on Suarez - and 動機づけ 明確に wasn't a problem.

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers (left) stands と一緒に his Chelsea 相当するもの Mourinho

Liverpool 支配するd the game until Gerrard's slip late in the first-half gifted Chelsea a chance

Demba Ba stole in and 得点する／非難する／２０d にもかかわらず the despairing 成果／努力s of Liverpool's captain to atone

'We were on the bus and the guys outside were selling shirts with 'Liverpool 支持する／優勝者s' on, and you can't 許す that as Chelsea,' Mourinho 解任するd.

'You have to keep the marketing and 商品／売買する in a box.'

Of course it was a vintage Mourinho game 計画（する）. Liverpool enjoyed 73 per cent of 所有／入手 and 26 発射s, yet floundered before a blue 塀で囲む with a five-man midfield designed to 保護物，者 the 支援する four.

From the first minute, Chelsea 始める，決める out to 勝利，勝つd up the Anfield （人が）群がる by taking their time over 始める，決める-pieces. 失望／欲求不満 became irritation and then nail-biting 緊張 as the minutes ticked by.

Gerrard adjusts his footwear after slipping on the Anfield pitch に引き続いて a poor first touch

Chelsea's spoiling 策略 延長するd to their 経営者／支配人 as he 妨げるd a quick throw-in

A 小競り合い 続いて起こるd as Mourinho tried to slow Gerrard and Liverpool 負かす／撃墜する at a throw-in

緊張 turned into horror and 不信 in first-half 傷害 time when Gerrard miscontrolled a pass by Mamadou Sakho and, when trying to 回復する his 宙に浮く, slipped as the ball ran to Ba.

The Senegal 今後's pace took him （疑いを）晴らす to a rare sight of the Liverpool goal, where he slotted past Simon Mignolet in 前線 of a dumbfounded Kop.

Gerrard tried to compose himself and the fans 詠唱するd his 指名する at half-time. While there was a その上の 45 minutes to 答える／応じる, captain marvel couldn't 召喚する a 復帰.

It was Liverpool attack versus Chelsea's?stubborn rearguard with every 活動／戦闘 by the 訪問者s getting slower and slower.

At one point, Mourinho grabbed the ball to 妨げる Gerrard taking a quick throw-in, 誘発するing a minor 小競り合い.

The game was settled in 停止 time, moments after Chelsea keeper 示す Schwarzer made a 飛行機で行くing save to 否定する Suarez.

Chelsea celebrate af ter Willian netted their second in the dying seconds to 沈む Liverpool?

Fernando Torres broke away and teed up Willian for Chelsea's second, 誘発するing Mourinho to 成し遂げる a chest-（警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing touchline dash as Liverpool's fans vented at him.

'They parked two buses, rather than one,' Rodgers complained after the final whistle.

'Just putting 10 players 権利 on your 18-yard box is not difficult to coach, but it is 明白に much harder to try and break through it.

'Jose is happy to work that way and he will probably 押す his CV in 前線 of me and say it 作品, but that is not my way of working.'

Mourinho 反対するd: 'The team that deserved it more won.'

A few days later, Liverpool let slip a three-goal lead at 水晶 Palace in another 肩書を与える 団体／死体 blow

Manchester City were duly 栄冠を与えるd 首相 League 支持する／優勝者s after Liverpool's 崩壊（する）?

The Special One 二塁打d 負かす／撃墜する on that last year, 説: 'Of course, Stevie G slipped, and he was the last person who deserved that to happen, but that's part of football and in reality we played so 井戸／弁護士席.'

受益者 Ba said in 2021: 'What Steven Gerrard has done for the world of football is tremendous. But this is life, unfortunately. Not all stories can end in fairytales.'

Indeed. The slip meant Gerrard ended his playing days without winning the 首相 League, a moment he seems doomed to be haunted by forever.