Champions! (Everything Else Is Moot) Reds on the Beach!

Hungover Liverpool with nothing to play for field weakened team and lose, shock, horror

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Post-Match Thoughts

Paul Tomkins

Chelsea have one thing Liverpool could use: raw pace. Liverpool have things Chelsea want, like guaranteed Champions League football, the league title, better players, experience, class, a much bigger fanbase, sane owners, and a better manager. Liverpool don’t have to sell their women’s team to themselves to pass FFP.

Chelsea have to slog it out for another three games, and Liverpool can be on the beach. That’s the beauty of winning the league a month early.

Arne Slot rested many of his key players, and his Reds bossed the ball, but Chelsea have quality on the break. Liverpool’s fringe players got a good runout.

To expect Liverpool to be fully “on it” days after winning the league, or to even care that much, is laughable. To expect anyone to be on it the week after they’ve won the league and made everything else irrelevant is laughable. To judge a team after they’ve won the league is laughable.

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