Steven Gerrard Slip Crushes Liverpool’s Title Dreams – TBT #6
It’s April 27th, 2014. Liverpool is playing against Chelsea at Anfield, and they’re on an 11-win streak. At the moment, Liverpool is 1st on the table with 5 points ahead of the 2nd placed Chelsea. Only three games until the end of the season, and Liverpool is the favorite to win the Premier League title since 1990. Liverpool fans believe that their wait for the title will finally be over in a matter of weeks.
The referee blows the whistle, and the game begins. From the start of the game, Chelsea plays relentlessly and stalls the game by wasting time on set-pieces. Tension rises as minutes pass by, and something unexpected happens at the end of the first half.
Liverpool’s captain, Steven Gerrard, fails to control the ball after a pass from Mamadou Sakho and slips. The ball rolls to Chelsea’s striker Demba Ba, who has a clear path to Liverpool’s goal. Even though Gerrard does his best to stop the Senegalese striker, Ba manages to put the ball past Simon Mignolet in front of the Kop. The fans can’t believe what they just saw. Liverpool did their best to get back into the game, but Chelsea beat them 0-2.
Unfortunately, the club from Merseyside ended the 2013/14 season in second place, and the now-infamous Gerrard slip proved quite costly for them.
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