{"id":184921,"date":"2025-10-02T12:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/184921\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:03:17","slug":"chelsea-can-break-unwanted-11-year-record-against-liverpool-with-victory-at-stamford-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/184921\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea can break unwanted 11-year record against Liverpool with victory at Stamford Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chelsea enter their next Premier League game knowing a win is imperative following a tough few weeks of action and two consecutive defeats.<\/p>\n<p>The unfortunate thing is they are set to face Liverpool, who currently sit top of the Premier League ahead of their visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/club\/stadium\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stamford Bridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/news\/worrying-chelsea-fans-reaction-to-enzo-maresca-at-stamford-bridge-during-nightmare-defeat-to-brighton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enzo Maresca is feeling the heat from Chelsea fans<\/a> after losses to Manchester United and Brighton, however he will rightly point to the fact that they have not finished either game with 11 men on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>The Chelsea Chronicle have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/match-coverage\/chelsea-predicted-xi-vs-liverpool-as-enzo-maresca-starts-outstanding-player-for-first-time-this-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">predicted that Romeo Lavia will start the game<\/a> for the Blues, with his last major impact being in the game against Liverpool last season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"719\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2213420335-1024x719.jpg\" alt=\"Chelsea FC v Liverpool FC - Premier League\" \/>Photo by Marc Atkins\/Getty ImagesChelsea can break unwanted 11-year record against Liverpool<\/p>\n<p>After Arne Slot\u2019s side had already won the Premier League when they visited West London last season, however the Blues needed a win to help secure Champions League football for the upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n<p>A 3-1 victory followed, and now the Blues have the chance to make it back-to-back wins against Liverpool in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>This has not been the case since 2014, when Gary Cahill and Diego Costa scored to send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> to a 2-1 win at Anfield to make it three wins in a row.<\/p>\n<p>After an underwhelming set of results to start the season, a victory against the league leaders would be a real statement to the rest of the league that they should be taken seriously this season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2178817713-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"FBL-ENG-PR-LIVERPOOL-CHELSEA\" class=\"wp-image-327922\" \/>Photo by PAUL ELLIS\/AFP via Getty ImagesA good time to face Liverpool<\/p>\n<p>If there is ever a good time to face Liverpool, Maresca\u2019s side may have hit the jackpot when looking at the situation their upcoming opponents are in.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds are off the back of consecutive defeats for just the second time since Slot took over, and are set to be without some key players for the game.<\/p>\n<p>The manager already confirmed that Alisson will miss the game following an injury suffered against Galatasaray in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechelseachronicle.com\/news\/liverpool-could-now-be-without-another-key-player-for-chelsea-clash-with-alisson-already-ruled-out\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slot also cast doubt over Hugo Ekitike\u2019s fitness<\/a>, with him enjoying a strong start to life at Liverpool after being a target of Chelsea during the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea enter their next Premier League game knowing a win is imperative following a tough few weeks of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-184921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}