Football
Chelsea have real belief in top-five fight as much-changed Liverpool lack intensity after title party
For a brief moment just before Christmas you wondered whether this fixture, between what were then the country’s two form teams and Premier League pacesetters, might prove a title decider.
Much has changed since then, and a gap of 22 points opened up by the time of kick-off between the Liverpool side just crowned champions of England and a Chelsea one hunting a route into the top five.
