Chelsea 3-1 Liverpool LIVE SCORE: Palmer ends goal drought with last-min penalty as champions stunned – latest updates
CHELSEA have stunned the Premier League champions Liverpool 3-1 to bolster their Champions League hopes!
Shortly after the Blues gave the newly crowned champions a guard of honour, Enzo Fernandez scored a shock early goal inside just three minutes.
Jarell Quansah deflected in Virgil van Dijk's clearance to double the Blues lead before Van Dijk pulled one back late on for Liverpool.
Man-of-the-match Cole Palmer added an injury-time third for the Blues from the penalty spot to score his first goal since January.
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Who will get Champions League?
Just four points separate third spot Man City and seventh spot Aston Villa.
The three other teams in between are Newcastle, Chelsea and Nottingham Forest.
Five places will make the cut for the Champions League this season meaning two out of these five teams will miss out.
Well Arsenal's spot isn't guaranteed either as they sit on 67 points only seven above sixth place Forest who have a game in hand.
Champions League Chelsea
Chelsea will know how much pressure they've put on Champions League chasing rivals Forest as nothing but a win will do for them away at Crystal Palace.
If Forest manage to get the win, they will be level with the blues heading in to the final three of the season.
Liverpool's final three games
Liverpool v Arsenal (H) - 11/05 - 16:30
Brighton v Liverpool (A) 19/05 - 20:00
Liverpool v Crystal Palace (H) - 25/05 - 16:00
Chelsea's next five
Promising performances
Ecstatic Enzo
Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca was looked to be relieved and ecstatic when that final whistle blew - he knows how big of a win that was.
Chelsea win means this is their first win over Liverpool in the league at the bridge since 2017 and first in the league since 2021!
Cool Cole
Cole Palmer with an excellent man of the match performance.
His goal means he finally ends his goal drought of 12 matches and he will be buzzing for that.
This is the time of the season where he and his fans really want him to get back to his best.
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Massive for the CL race
Chelsea's win means they are level on points now with Newcastle and on goal difference!
Next week the blues travel to St. James Park in what will be a huge game for Champions League places.
Chelsea 3-1 Liverpool - Full time
There's the whistle straight after the restart.
A much needed win for Chelsea as they as they go level with Newcastle in fourth and one behind City in third.
Chelsea closer to that Champions League spot as this year fifth is an extra spot for Europe's most elite competition.
Liverpool just weren't at it today but I'm sure their fans won't mind too much about it.
Chelsea 3-1 Liverpool
90+7. YES HE CAN!
Confident penalty by Palmer - Alisson dives the right way but the pace of the pen was too much for the keeper to get to it.
A massive goal for Chelsea and Palmer's performance has deserved a goal.
Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool
90+5. PENALTY FOR CHELSEA!
Szoboszlai plays a poor under hit ball to Quansah which Caicedo rushes to intercept and he is taken out by the Liverpool centre back.Can Palmer finally end his goal drought?
Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool
90. Five minutes added on to end the game.
Can Chelsea see it through?
Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool
88. Another sub - Reece James coming on for the opening goal scorer of the game Fernandez.
Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool
85. GOAL FOR LIVERPOOL!
Van Dijk heads it in from a Macallister corner.
The blues have got a nervy finish to the game now!
Chelsea 2-0 Liverpool
81. Another chance for a Chelsea third!
Wow great play from Palmer as he breeze pasts Bradley and tries to go from goal from the tightest of angles and it nearly pays off - off the post!
Palmer desperately wanting a goal now as his drought continues.Chelsea 2-0 Liverpool
79. Big chance for a third for the blues!
Madueke has his shot blocked after Palmer sweeps it out to him with a lovely timed pass.Sancho eventually receives the ball but his shot is saved well by Alisson,
Chelsea 2-0 Liverpool
78. Another Chelsea sub - Gusto on for Lavia.
Chelsea 2-0 Liverpool
77. Close for Liverpool's Egyptian king as Tsimikas floats in a ball and Salah's header goes agonisingly wide.
Chelsea 2-0 Liverpool
74. Chelsea look to counter from Liverpool's corner but Neto can't do enough to get past Macallister.
Chelsea 2-0 Liverpool
73. Liverpool piling on the pressure now as they seek for a goal.
Another corner for them.
Chelsea 2-0 Liverpool
72. First sub of the game for Chelsea - Jackson off for Sancho.
Chelsea 2-0 Liverpool
71. Nice little touch from Macallister to Gakpo who tries to slide in Nunez but he can't get to the ball as Chalobah does well to hold him off.
Chelsea 2-0 Liverpool
69. Two more subs for Liverpool - Endo and Eliot off for Szoboszlai and Macallister.
View from Stamford Bridge
From SunSport's Martin Lipton
A comic cuts own goal - and Chelsea fans are smiling their heads off.
Credit to Palmer, far too good for Tsimikas on the right.
But van Dijk - just a few minutes after being booked for a late lunge on Caicedo - knows he should do far better than slam the ball against his own player.
Nothing poor Quansah could do to get out of the way of that one, or prevent the rebound finding the back of the net.
Surely, now, that’s the three points that will take them level on points and goal difference with Newcastle - trailing the Toon only on goals scored - and three clear of Forest and Villa, although the City Ground club can reduce the gap to just goal difference with a win at Palace tomorrow.
Liverpool look like a side that celebrated long and hard last week. And are now suffering a hangover.