Team<\/p>\n
With Alisson Becker injured, Giorgi Mamardashvili made his Premier League debut and was one of five changes to the line-up deployed at Galatasaray in midweek.<\/p>\n
Conor Bradley, Alexander Isak, Alexis Mac Allister and Mohamed Salah were the other players brought in.<\/p>\n
Liverpool: Mamardashvili, Van Dijk, Konate (Jones, 55), Kerkez (Robertson, 55), Szoboszlai, Isak (Ekitike, 74), Mac Allister (Endo, 86), Salah, Bradley (Wirtz, 46), Gakpo, Gravenberch.<\/p>\n
Unused subs: Woodman, Gomez, Chiesa, Frimpong.<\/p>\n
First half <\/p>\n
Despite an encouraging start, Liverpool found themselves behind in the 14th minute.<\/p>\n
Caicedo spun past Mac Allister and then decided to drive towards the penalty area, choosing to strike at goal just on the outskirts. The Ecuadorian\u2019s right-footed drive flew into the top corner, leaving Mamardashvili with no chance.<\/p>\n
A quick response from the Reds nearly came when Dominik Szoboszlai got on the end of a Gakpo cut-back, only for Benoit Badiashile to get in the way of the midfielder\u2019s side-foot effort.<\/p>\n
Past the half-hour mark, Gakpo then created another opportunity \u2013 this time for Milos Kerkez, who opted to square in search of Salah instead of firing at goal from a tight angle.<\/p>\n
Alejandro Garnacho was inches away from doubling Chelsea\u2019s lead as he clipped the post after the ball made its way to him on the edge of the box through a short-corner routine. <\/p>\n
After Garnacho had a penalty appeal turned down by the referee and VAR, Isak then headed over from a Salah cross in the final chance of the opening period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team With Alisson Becker injured, Giorgi Mamardashvili made his Premier League debut and was one of five changes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10015,10016,42,5851,10011,10006,10017,10019,10018,1547,10010,10009,5859,10014,43,10007,10012,10008,40,38,41,39,10013],"class_list":["post-61543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-headlines","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-news","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-the-reds","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}