{"id":192642,"date":"2025-10-06T06:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/192642\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T06:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:41:06","slug":"chelsea-2-1-liverpool-player-ratings-moises-caicedo-best-midfielder-in-the-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/192642\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, Player Ratings: Mois\u00e9s Caicedo, \u2018best midfielder in the Premier League\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s not for the first time that Mois\u00e9s Caicedo has shown Liverpool what they missed out on when they lost the transfer battle for his signature, but this may have been his most emphatic showing, and one to underline the idea that he is the best midfielder in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201c[He] was the best player on the pitch by a mile. Forget the goal, which was absolutely incredible, his work around the pitch means he\u2019s two in one. He\u2019s everything and a brilliant midfielder player. He was the best player on the pitch by a mile and if Liverpool had him they would have won, he was that good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201c[He] is the best midfielder in the Premier League at this moment in time. You think of Gravenberch last season and Declan Rice, Rodri obviously, but right now I think we can say he\u2019s the best midfielder in the Premier League.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">-Gary Neville; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLISuFiQTdKDVrkJjHgNiHZHMotZLA4jbq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Sports podcast<\/a> via Metro<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pundits opinions are just that, but they do help set the narrative and it\u2019s always nice to hear midfielders recognized for their work (and not just goals, as spectacular as Moi\u2019s goal was, as per usual).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The last player I remember truly announcing himself for Chelsea against Liverpool was Branislav Ivanovi\u0107, with his two goals against the Reds at Anfield in the 2008-09 Champions League quarterfinals. He would leave the club nearly a decade later with 377 appearances to his name (16th all time). Steve-o couldn\u2019t be a different player from Bane, but if he follows down the same path, he might just etch his name into Blues history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A quietly excellent performance from the left back, until he served up some proper noise with the perfect assist for the winning goal.<\/p>\n<p>vs. LIVERPOOL (PL, H, W 2-1)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">EXCEPTIONAL (8.5-9.5): Caicedo (9.4), Est\u00eav\u00e3o (8.6, sub)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">EXCELLENT (7.5-8.4): Cucurella (8.1), James (7.9)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">GOOD (6.5-7.4): Acheampong (7.4), Badiashile (7.4), Enzo (7.3), Garnacho (7.1), Lavia (7.1, sub), Neto (6.9), Gusto (6.9), Hato (6.8, sub), S\u00e1nchez (6.7), Gittens (6.6, sub)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">AVERAGE (5.5-6.4): Guiu (6.3, sub), Jo\u00e3o Pedro (6.2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not for the first time that Mois\u00e9s Caicedo has shown Liverpool what they missed out on when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,95991,82],"class_list":["post-192642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chelsea-fc-premier-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192642","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=192642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}