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Independent:

Liverpool start as they finished at Wembley as Terry slips off pace

Liverpool 4 Chelsea 1

Tim Rich Anfield

It is now the European Cup or bust for Chelsea, and should they perform this badly against Bayern Munich, bust it will be – or the Europa League, which in owner Roman Abramovich's eyes amounts to the same thing.

Since his takeover in 2003, Stamford Bridge has only ever staged Champions League football. Now, unless they can overcome Bayern in their own stadium, Chelsea will be dipping their toes into some of European football's more distant waters.

There were eight changes last night from the side that had beaten Liverpool in the FA Cup final and they suffered Chelsea's heaviest league defeat of the Abramovich era. Since few of this team are likely to play in the Allianz Arena on 19 May, it would be harsh to read too much into this debacle, although the match climaxed with the Kop chanting: "Bayern Munich, they'll win it five times".

Nothing here would discourage the Germans. Given the suspensions Roberto Di Matteo's side will take into the final, Michael Essien or Florent Malouda may have to be pressed into service in central midfield, where last night they were overrun.

"You have to be objective; we have played 37 games in the Premier League and the points we have lost today are not the reason we have failed to finish fourth," Di Matteo said.

He justified his selection by arguing that, "with everything we have been through we needed to use players who were fresh mentally and physically." They would have been worn down by the finish. John Terry endured such a dreadful first half that someone tweeted Bayern would be appealing to Uefa to have his ban for the final overturned.

Chelsea's situation, however, is identical to Liverpool's when they won the European Cup in Istanbul seven years ago and this was a night that would have made Kenny Dalglish's end-of-season review with the club's owners a little easier. Liverpool began as they had finished the FA Cup final – and that when the season is summed up here will be a matter for lasting regret.

"No, I don't have a feeling of 'what if?'" said Dalglish. "I have a feeling of: 'what a performance'. The last half-hour at Wembley and this performance make up a fantastic two hours of football. The supporters can go away with a smile on their faces."

There were moments last night to give Bayern's representatives pause for thought. Branislav Ivanovic thundered a header against the post when the scores were still level. Fernando Torres, returning to Anfield for the first time since Chelsea made him the Premier League's most expensive footballer, accelerated away from Daniel Agger and sent a shot crashing on to the crossbar beneath the Kop.

Pepe Reina, who has admitted publicly to having endured a poor season, was wrong-footed by Ramires as he met Malouda's free-kick to spark a flicker of a comeback that was extinguished the moment Ross Turnbull sent a clearance straight to Jonjo Shelvey, who drove it back with interest into the net.

That was Liverpool's fourth and final goal, although there might have been more. Just before half-time, Ivanovic barged over Andy Carroll, whom Dalglish thought as unplayable as he had been in the final half hour at Wembley, and conceded a penalty. Stewart Downing has never scored for Liverpool in the league and maintained that record by hitting the post with his kick.

It scarcely seemed to matter. Liverpool were three up and in total command. The rout began with Luis Suarez reaching the byline and pulling the ball back for the approaching figure of Carroll. It missed its target, hit Essien and rolled over the line for the first of three goals in nine minutes.

While Carroll's reputation had been revived by the FA Cup final, Jordan Henderson's had plummeted further. When John W Henry decided to sack Damien Comolli as director of football, the principal complaint was that he had signed players who were wildly overpriced. Henderson, bought from an astonished Sunderland for £20m, was the chief witness for the prosecution.

However when Maxi Rodriguez aimed a loose pass in the general direction of Terry and saw the pillar of Chelsea's defence slip to the floor, Henderson was the one to benefit and you would have had to possess a granite heart not to have willed him to score, which he did in some style.

Carroll may not have scored – however, he contributed to Liverpool's third with surprising delicacy, heading Shelvey's corner across the face of the area for Agger to head home. As he ran towards the Kop in the second half, the great stand stood and chanted his name. It has taken a while but Carroll is becoming the player Dalglish thought him to be.

Man of the match Carroll.

Match rating 7/10.

Referee K Friend (Leicestershire).

Attendance 40,721.


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Guardian:

Liverpool exact final revenge thanks to Chelsea errors

Andy Hunter at Anfield

Chelsea must win it to stay in it. Champions League qualification was always a distant hope through the Premier League for Roberto Di Matteo but, as though the club's first European Cup was not incentive enough, there is no alternative now but to beat Bayern Munich in their own backyard after the lowest league finish of the Roman Abramovich era was confirmed at Anfield.
A top-four finish was obliterated from the equation for Chelsea by a rampant Liverpool team swaggering with a self-belief and adventure absent from their FA Cup final display at Wembley three days previously.
Kenny Dalglish's biggest league win of the season arrived too late to alter the complexion of the club's season but, with Andy Carroll again a dominant force and an impressive home performance reflected in goals for a change, Liverpool signed off at Anfield with a flourish and a flicker of hope.
Chelsea departed in the sure knowledge that several players had ruined their prospects of starting at the Allianz Arena but with minds focused. Given the trials that preceded Di Matteo's appointment as interim manager nine weeks ago, following the dismissal of André Villas-Boas, win or bust at the Allianz Arena is an acceptable return.
A repeat of this ramshackle defensive display on Saturday week, however, and the Kop's taunt of "Bayern Munich, they'll win it five times" will ring true.
The visitors arrived with their Premier League campaign alive but the night was not without incentive for Liverpool, however demoralised the club may have been by Saturday's defeat and their performance against the same opponents in the FA Cup final.
Victory avoided equalling the lowest return of home wins in a top flight campaign at Anfield – the five of 1948-49 – maintained hope of finishing above Everton in the table and restored some optimism ahead of Dalglish's end-of-season review with the club's owners. Against another team Liverpool might have struggled to rouse itself but not against Chelsea and not against a side containing Fernando Torres, back on Anfield soil for the first time since his acrimonious £50m exit 16 months ago.
The obligatory boos reverberated around Anfield every time the Spain international touched the ball. Torres must have been tempted to join in, such was the paucity of the performance around him and particularly of a visiting defence destroyed by the channelled aggression of Carroll and skill of Luis Suárez.
Di Matteo made eight changes to the team that began at Wembley but the rotation policy that has served him so well of late failed him here. Even so, he had every right to expect more from John Terry, his captain, and Branislav Ivanovic in central defence although, in mitigation to the established pair, they were exposed frequently by those around them, including Ross Turnbull in goal. Chelsea started strongly and should have opened the scoring when Ivanovic planted a free header from Florent Malouda's corner against a post.
But, unlike at the Cup final, Liverpool showed up from the first whistle. Out of the ashes of their misery the Liverpool manager had urged his players to find confidence in their rousing finale at Wembley and they stunned Di Matteo's makeshift team with three goals in nine remarkable minutes. From a Chelsea perspective all three were easily avoidable.
Suárez engineered the first when he held off Oriol Romeu down the right wing, nutmegged the Chelsea captain as he entered the area and cut the ball back into Michael Essien who diverted it into his own goal.
A slip by Terry as he moved to collect a pass from Maxi Rodríguez enabled Jordan Henderson to go through on goal and beat Turnbull with a cool finish into the bottom corner and then, with the Chelsea keeper AWOL at a Jonjo Shelvey corner, Daniel Agger glanced Carroll's header into the unguarded net.
Torres's duel with the recalled Jamie Carragher simmered nicely and the Chelsea forward was denied another goal in front of the Kop when his angled drive cannoned off the underside of the crossbar. At the other, busier, end Carroll was thwarted by Turnbull as he cut into the area and Stewart Downing struck the bar with a delightful volley from Suárez's knock-down.
The moment for Downing to break his Premier League duck for Liverpool arrived on the stroke of half-time when Ivanovic conceded a ludicrous penalty for elbowing Carroll in the chest as they awaited Henderson's cross.
Ivanovic was only booked but, from 12 yards and having sent Turnbull the wrong way, Downing smacked his spot-kick against the post and out. Liverpool's seventh penalty miss of the season set an unwanted club record and extended their number of strikes against the woodwork to 46.
Chelsea were being embarrassed and responded at the start of the second half when Ramires unwittingly bundled Malouda's inviting free-kick beyond José Reina. But any thoughts of a recovery ended when Turnbull scuffed a hopeless clearance into the path of Shelvey and the Liverpool midfielder drilled the return high into his unguarded net.


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Telegraph:

Chelsea and John Terry made to suffer by Andy Carroll as Liverpool turn it on too late in 4-1 victory at Anfield
At the end of a game in which Andy Carroll utterly bullied John Terry, the Anfield DJ played Neil Diamond’s ‘Sweet Caroline’, giving the Kop the chance to sing ‘Sweet Carroll Nine’ in homage to their striker.


By Henry Winter, at Anfield

He failed to score but he looked every inch an imposing target-man, good news for England as well as Liverpool.
Part-jubilant, part-reflective, Anfield was left with a feeling of what might have been, of what additional damage Carroll might have inflicted on Chelsea'sdefence had he started Saturday’s FA Cup final rather than coming on for a rampaging half-hour against Terry and company. From first whistle to last here, Carroll was immense.

He has taken time to settle, needing to develop an understanding with Luis Suárez. Some of their linking hinted at a burgeoning partnership. Carroll looks leaner than when he arrived, more athletic. The price-tag of £35  million still looks excessive but at least Carroll has silenced the mocking. He has to go to the Euros.

If Carroll seized the headlines and plaudits from Kenny Dalglish, the bare details of an entertaining match paint only part of the picture. A Michael Essien own-goal, a composed Jordan Henderson finish and Daniel Agger’s header brought Liverpool three goals in nine first-half minutes as their fluid, forceful football shredded much-changed Chelsea. Stewart Downing then wasted a penalty, the seventh his side have missed from 11 this season.

The second half saw Ramires make it 3-1 but Liverpool were in total control, confirmed when Jonjo Shelvey capped a fine display with a wonderful strike from 30 yards. The bad blood that often flows between these sides was seen in some ugly moments, a two-footed challenge by Essien on Carroll, a Branislav Ivanovic elbow on Carroll and a Suárez forearm on Ivanovic.

The bigger picture of a game of many brushstrokes was of the significance to both sides. For Chelsea, it is now Munich or bust in terms of qualifying for the Champions League. They must defeat Bayern, whose name was sung by the Kop.

Chelsea’s hopes of finishing in the top four had already been fading, a reality confirmed by the sight of so many changes on Roberto Di Matteo’s team-sheet, and they ended here. They cannot even catch fifth-placed Newcastle United now, a reminder what an exceptional season Alan Pardew’s team have enjoyed. This is Chelsea’s worst season in the league in the Roman Abramovich era; their lowest position before was third under the Russian oligarch.

For Liverpool, the victory contained an emotional significance. The quality of their attacking football, and particularly the sight of Shelvey running midfield and Carroll monstering Terry, stirred a feelgood factor into Anfield which has hardly been a fortress this season. In a disappointing season for Liverpool in the Premier League, the full tally of points here lifted them to within a point of Everton. There is local pride still to play for. For a club of Liverpool’s history, the race for seventh is hardly the most glorious of pursuits. Liverpool will need to strengthen in the summer but there was much to encourage the Kop here, even taking into account Chelsea’s second-string nature.

They still had their captain, Terry, who is suspended for Munich yet he endured a wretched night. Talk persists about whether Terry should go to the Euros because of any negative impact he might have on the dressing-room dynamic; on this evidence, there are significant footballing reasons for leaving him behind. Suárez had already nutmegged Terry once even before the goal-rush.

The goals began to flow after 20 minutes. Suárez drove in from the right, embarrassing Terry with the most elegant and quickly-executed of nutmegs. The Uruguayan cut the ball back from the byline, hitting Essien and cannoning into the net.

The pain continued. Terry looked a ghost, soon nutmegged again, this time by Carroll, and responded by fouling him. Terry was booked, and his evening deteriorated three minutes later when Henderson ran through. There has always been the suspicion with him that he feels inhibited by Steven Gerrard’s presence.

With Liverpool’s captain absent with a back injury, Henderson seemed released from an imaginary cage. From Maxi’s pass, he glided through the middle and placed the ball with a touch of fade around Ross Turnbull.

Chelsea’s defence was breached again three minutes later. Shelvey whipped in a corner from the left, Carroll again lost Terry and headed back for the stooping Agger to score.

Liverpool were rampant. Suárez fired over. Downing unleashed a marvellous dipping shot that clipped the bar. He should have had his first goal for Liverpool, following Ivanovic’s elbow into the chest of Carroll, but he drove his penalty against the post. Liverpool have now hit the woodwork 46 times in all competitions.

Downing’s failure was highlighted further when Robbie Fowler’s young son, Jacob, joined in the half-time shoot-out, converting his effort from 12 yards in front of the Kop.

Chelsea still had a few chances, and a few grievances. Shelvey kicked Florent Malouda in the head, guilty of carelessness at the very least.

Ivanovic headed a Malouda corner against the post. Torres crashed a shot off the underside of the bar. “You should have stayed at a big club,” the Kop chanted at Torres, who will soon be leaving for Munich and the Champions League final. He may be on the bench at the Allianz Arena but he has played his part on the road to Munich, and may come on if Plan A, Operation Drogba, fails.

Chelsea responded briefly, Ramires turning in Malouda’s free-kick with his midriff. Any idea of a comeback was brutally ended on the hour. In front of a cackling Kop, Turnbull made a shocking clearance, clearing the ball straight to Shelvey, who drilled it superbly into the net.


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Mail:

Liverpool 4 Chelsea 1
Reds romp to sweet revenge as Blues blow top four hopes
By Dominic King

If only. Those words have been muttered regularly by Liverpudlians during this bewildering campaign but never have they carried as much meaning as Tuesday night.
If only Liverpool had played like this at Wembley three days earlier, they would have completed a cup double. If only Luis Suarez and Andy Carroll had dovetailed so sweetly sooner, the league table would not look so horrid. If only they had been this ruthless in 18 previous home games. If only.
But, as Kenny Dalglish argued, it was better late than never, a fine riposte to losing the FA Cup final. Even if Chelsea had fielded the same XI as they did on Saturday, Roberto Di Matteo’s men would have found it difficult living with Liverpool in this rampant mood.
But In scoring four goals, Liverpool obliterated Chelsea’s faint hopes of finishing in the top four and if Di Matteo is to lead his club into the Champions League next season, he will have to do it by masterminding a win in the Allianz Arena, the fortress of Bayern Munich, on May 19.
‘I didn’t think, “What if?”,’ said Dalglish. ‘I just thought, “What a performance and what a result”; with the last half-hour at Wembley and this performance, we have put together two hours of fantastic football. We have seen performances like that before but not  married them up with a result.’
All fears that Fernando Torres would return to haunt them were expunged by a relentless display that contained three goals in nine first-half minutes and a mesmerising performance from Suarez, who was intent on causing havoc from the first whistle.
He may have failed to get on the scoresheet but, working in tandem with Carroll, the little Uruguayan caused mayhem and provided some much-needed succour to the embattled Dalglish.
Given what had happened at Wembley, it had been generally assumed that the atmosphere around Anfield would be morose, with thousands of Liverpool fans staying away. But, not for the first time, waves of defiance rolled off the Kop. The vocal backing for Dalglish was especially significant.
Whether it was the noise being generated or a response to Dalglish’s pre-match appeal that it was ‘vital to sign off with a home win’, Liverpool certainly began at a tempo that was far removed from their insipid beginning at Wembley.
True, they enjoyed good fortune when Branislav Ivanovic rose unmarked to head Florent Malouda’s 17th-minute corner against a post, but it was no surprise when the home side went ahead.
Evoking memories of the day he slalomed between four Manchester United defenders to set up a goal for Dirk Kuyt in March 2011, Suarez had only one thing on his mind when he took possession in the 19th minute and embarked on a mazy run that carried him past three blue shirts.
Having hoodwinked John Terry with a nutmeg, Suarez tried to find strike partner Carroll but, in his desperation to clear, Michael Essien succeeded only in turning the cross into his own net. It was a goal that opened the floodgates.
Flustered by the way Suarez was buzzing around, Terry was horribly out of sorts and moments after  he was booked for clattering into  Carroll, his slip allowed Jordan Henderson to speed on to a  pass from Maxi Rodriguez. The  21-year-old then displayed great poise to double Liverpool’s lead.
Soon after, two became three. Jonjo Shelvey’s corner picked out Carroll and his knockdown was headed home by Denmark defender Daniel Agger. Liverpool wore a logo bearing ‘Seeing is Believing’ on their shirts to promote a charity that supports the blind and this scoreline did take some fathoming.
‘I thought Liverpool were inspired,’ acknowledged a solemn Di Matteo. ‘They were the better side and scored their goals at the right times. You have to give credit to them. It is not the points we have lost here that mean we will not finish fourth.’
Chelsea mustered a response when Torres — who was a peripheral figure — burst into the Kop End penalty area and smashed a drive against the underside of the bar but that attack was not in  keeping with the pattern of play and Liverpool could easily have been five up by half-time.
Stewart Downing, enjoying one of his best nights in a red shirt, was desperately unlucky to see a dipping left-foot volley crack the woodwork. He should have scored his first Barclays Premier League goal for the club in added time at the end of the half but his penalty, after Carroll was felled by Ivanovic, hit a post.
That was Liverpool’s seventh failure from the spot of the season (excluding the Carling Cup final shootout) — a club record — but, unlike earlier misses, this was not costly, even if within minutes of the restart Ramires had pulled a goal back, heading in Malouda’s free-kick.
But it was not the sign for a concerted spell of Chelsea pressure. If anything, Liverpool looked the side most likely to score again and so it proved when Shelvey scored the fourth. It came after more desperate defending from Chelsea but, even so, Shelvey had plenty on when the ball fell to him 25 yards out.
It didn’t matter as he swept his shot into the net to complete the rout, ensuring the post-match lap of honour went smoothly.
‘There is no other place in the Premier League where supporters would show appreciation like that,’ said Dalglish. ‘It was a fantastic night.’
Such a shame for him there were not a few more.


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Mirror:
Liverpool 4-1 Chelsea: Reds gain revenge on absolutely Terry-ble Blues
John Terry had a shocker as Liverpool finally ran riot at Anfield

By Martin Lipton

Munich or bust for Chelsea.
One game, 90 minutes, to reserve the club's dining place at football's High Table, to prevent them slumming it in the Europa League.
And while Roman Abramovich stayed away from Anfield just as he missed Wembley, the message will get back to him.
That, no matter what happens in the Champions League Final, this is a squad in need of radical overhaul.
That Roberto Di Matteo's knock-out miracles have been the exception, not the rule.
And that this was a shambolic, embarrassing and at times humiliating way for the club's nine-year spell as an automatic member of the European elite to see it come down to a shoot-out in the Allianz Arena. 
Last night, remember, Chelsea travelled to Merseyside knowing they could, with two wins, still somehow grab third.
Instead, with Di Matteo faith in the men who missed out at Wembley shown to be utterly misplaced, they were run ragged by Luiz Suarez and Andy Carroll, out-battled in midfield, publicly undressed.
In the Abramovich era, Chelsea have never finished lower than third, never recorded less than 71 points.
This season they will be sixth, with a maximum tally of 64.
This was, too, the heaviest defeat Chelsea have sustained since the previously unknown Russian emerged from Chukotka to buy out Ken Bates in 2003.
And, in truth, as Turnbull demonstrated how vital it is Petr Cech is wrapped in cotton wool for the next 10 days, it could have been even worse.

With the keeper, making his first Premier League start in more than two years, a flapping disaster, the madness infected the men in front of him.
Terry has been a tower of strength - his moment of Barcelona madness apart - for six months but last night he was a tottering wreck, Branislav Ivanovic scarcely better, Michael Essien and Oriol Romeu incapable of quelling Jordan Henderson and Jonjo Shelvey.
The tone was set when Suarez nut-megged the Chelsea skipper inside seven minutes and while Daniel Sturridge's shot deflected inches wide off Daniel Agger and the unmarked Ivanovic thundered Florent Malouda's resulting header against the post from six yards, Chelsea's disintegration began two minutes later.
Suarez, with nowhere to go wide right, somehow wriggled his way clear, played through Terry's legs as he hared inside and saw his driven cross bounce in off the helpless Essien.
Then Terry's slip saw Henderson waltz through on to Maxi Rodriguez' simple ball through the middle to steer past the keeper into the bottom corner.
And when Terry - booked for a foul on Carroll - lost the Geordie from Shelvey's corner on 28 minutes, leaving Agger a free header into the Blues net, Chelsea were utterly bereft.
While Torres smashed against the bar, so did Downing, who also slid against the post from the penalty spot when Ivanovic lost his marbles and elbowed Carroll in the chest.

Ramires, off his nether regions, pulled one back soon after the restart only for Turnbull's horror return to action to end with a miscued clearance, returned with interest by Shelvey for his first Premier League goal.
It could have been worse, although Ivanovic ended looking daggers at Suarez after a swinging right arm went unpunished. Chelsea had been punished enough.

Player ratings

Liverpool (4-4-2): Reina 5; Johnson 7, Carragher 6, Skrtel 6, Agger 7; Downing 6 (Sterling, 84, 6), Henderson 8, Shelvey 7, Maxi 7 (Kuyt, 83, 6); Suarez 9, Carroll 8

Chelsea (4-3-3): Turnbull 3; Ferreira 5, Ivanovic 5, Terry 4, Bertrand 5; Essien 5, Romeu 5, Malouda 6; Ramires 5, Torres 5, Sturridge 5 (Lukaku, 68, 5)

Referee: Kevin Friend
Man of the Match: Suarez - Chelsea simply could not handle him



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Sun:

By PHIL THOMAS

TOO little, too late? Well, try telling that to Kenny Dalglish this morning.

It may have been three days after the main event but at least it made for a happy farewell to the season at Anfield for Liverpool.

And, who knows, when it comes to that end-of-term debrief with the American owners in the next week or so, it could still prove to be pivotal for Kop boss Dalglish.

For with the heat rising on whether King Kenny should still be the man with his hand on the tiller next season, it has not done his chances any harm.

However, the same cannot be said of John Terry’s claims to be England’s defensive linchpin after a first-half display as bad as any the Chelsea skipper has produced in heaven knows how long.

In fact, if Roy Hodgson used last night’s display as a benchmark, the new England chief would not be facing that most awkward of dilemmas over whether Terry and Rio Ferdinand could play together.

For if this was anything like the norm, the Blues stopper would be nowhere near the squad.

Captain, leader, legend he may be at Stamford Bridge. Captain, leader, liability he most definitely was here.

If only Luis Suarez and Co had produced something like this on Saturday, there would be no debates over Dalglish’s future and the FA Cup would be sitting alongside the Carling one in the Anfield trophy cabinet.

Nutmegged almost at will, left on his backside so often it is a wonder he did not end up with piles and looking petrified every time Andy Carroll went near him. That was Terry’s evening on Merseyside... and all that before we had reached the interval.

OK, it might only have scratched the surface of revenge for Saturday’s Wembley defeat but for Kop fans it will do very nicely for starters, thank you.

Chelsea’s plastic-flag wavers will obviously be quick to point out that only three of their cup heroes — the Champions League final banned trio of Terry, Branislav Ivanovic and Ramires — lined up last night.

Yet when the replacements include the likes of Michael Essien, Daniel Sturridge and a certain Fernando Torres, it is hardly the Dog and Duck side they are sending out.

Talking of Torres, it was not exactly the Merseyside return the £50million striker was hoping for.

His first three completed passes to team-mates were actually to kick-off.
And any hopes of a warm welcome from the fans who idolised him as he was blasting 81 goals in 142 games for the Reds, lasted as long as Chelsea’s hopes.

Roberto Di Matteo’s men needed three points to keep alive their slender hopes of finishing in the top four.

For Liverpool even the prospect of Europa League football next term is a step up on the current one.

Last night they delivered the goods at last. Just a pity that it was all about saving face, rather than points meaning prizes.

And not even a cricket score was ever going to mask the fact that six home wins is their lowest return since Liverpool were relegated in 1954.

Mind you, the inquest into that can wait.
Ironically, Chelsea should actually have gone in front when Ivanovic thumped a header against the post from eight yards on 17 minutes.

Little more than 60 seconds later they were trailing.
There was no danger when Suarez collected the ball right on the touchline with blue shirts everywhere.

Yet he somehow danced past four challenges, before the cutest of pull-backs was turned into his own net by Essien. Six minutes later that lead was doubled, with Terry’s face left as red as his opponents’ shirts.

Maxi Rodriguez’s pass to Jordan Henderson was actually way off beam.
Yet when Terry lost his footing, the England midfielder hared off and slid a cool finish past Ross Turnbull.

Then Carroll’s presence so distracted the Chelsea defence that when he knocked Jonjo Shelvey’s corner back across goal, Daniel Agger was left free to head home in the 28th minute.

It should have been four when Ivanovic elbowed Carroll in the throat — somehow he escaped with only a booking — yet Stewart Downing drilled the spot-kick against the post.

That meant the Reds had missed a club-record SEVEN penalties in one season.
After Ramires pulled one back in the 50th minute there was a slight flicker of ‘Here we go again’.

But as Shelvey half-volleyed a shocking clearance from Turnbull back into the net from 35 yards after 61 minutes, Terry and Co’s misery was complete.

It also kept up Dalglish’s astonishing record of never having lost to Chelsea in a dozen games as manager.

The Kop boss will be a lot more confident this morning of being given the chance to make it a lucky 13.

DREAM TEAM RATINGS
STAR MAN - LUIS SUAREZ

LIVERPOOL: Reina 7, Johnson 7, Carragher 7, Skrtel 7, Agger 7, Maxi 7, Shelvey 7, Henderson 7, Carroll 8, Suarez 9, Downing 7. Subs: Kuyt (Maxi 83) 6, Sterling (Downing 83) 6. Not used: Doni, Coates, Spearing, Kelly, Bellamy. Booked: Henderson, Agger.

CHELSEA: Turnbull 4, Ferreira 5, Ivanovic 4, Terry 4, Bertrand 4, Essien 5, Romeu 5, Ramires 6, Sturridge 5, Torres 4, Malouda 6. Subs: Lukaku (Sturridge 68) 5. Not used: Hilario, Cole, Lampard, Mata, Kalou, Hutchinson. Booked: Ferreira, Terry, Essien, Ivanovic.

REF: K Friend 8