{"id":6553,"date":"2026-05-09T19:10:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T19:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=6553"},"modified":"2026-05-09T19:10:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T19:10:33","slug":"liverpool-1-1-chelsea-fernandez-ends-blues-losing-streak-and-dents-reds-champions-league-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=6553","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea: Fernandez ends Blues&#8217; losing streak and dents Reds&#8217; Champions League push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Chelsea ended their six-game losing streak in the Premier League after coming from behind to secure a 1-1 draw at Liverpool on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the result, the Reds remain fourth, one point clear of Aston Villa who face Burnley on Sunday, while Chelsea remain ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool opened the scoring in the sixth minute. Rio Ngumoha found Ryan Gravenberch, who curled beyond the outstretched Filip Jorgensen.<\/p>\n<p>Virgil van Dijk should have doubled the Reds\u2019 lead in the 10th minute, firing over from the edge of the six-yard box.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool had Giorgi Mamardashvili to thank on the half-hour hour mark. The Georgian quickly came off his line, preventing Marc Cucurella from finding the leveller.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea eventually equalised in the 35th minute as Enzo Fernandez\u2019s free-kick evaded everyone, before settling into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, the Argentine almost put the visitors ahead after running behind the Liverpool defence, but hit his effort straight at Mamardashvili.<\/p>\n<p>Four minutes after the restart, Cole Palmer thought he had put the Blues ahead, but his goal was ruled out offside.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool also saw a disallowed goal in the 57th minute when Curtis Jones headed in, but Cody Gakpo was deemed offside in the build-up.<\/p>\n<p>Jorgensen was then called into action, parrying Dominic Szoboszlai\u2019s powerful drive over the bar, before the Hungarian struck the woodwork in the 70th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea later threatened as Joao Pedro showed good footwork inside the area, before curling wide.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds came close to finding the winner, with Van Dijk\u2019s header hitting the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>The fixture attacking tempo fizzled out as the two sides settled for a draw.<\/p>\n<div class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-beta monsterinsights-popular-posts-styled\">\n<div class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/footballtoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/real-valladolid-cf-v-fc-barcelona-laliga-santander-1-300x200.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footballtoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/real-valladolid-cf-v-fc-barcelona-laliga-santander-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footballtoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/real-valladolid-cf-v-fc-barcelona-laliga-santander-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/footballtoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/real-valladolid-cf-v-fc-barcelona-laliga-santander-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/footballtoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/real-valladolid-cf-v-fc-barcelona-laliga-santander-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/footballtoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/real-valladolid-cf-v-fc-barcelona-laliga-santander-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" alt=\"Man City target Raphinha as Riyad Mahrez replacement\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-text\"><span class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-label\">Trending<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"monsterinsights-inline-popular-posts-post\">Man City target Raphinha as Riyad Mahrez replacement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea ended their six-game losing streak in the Premier League after coming from behind to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}