(Liverpool-Chelsea 5-3) A quarter of an hour before midnight, captain Jordan Henderson lifted the club’s first league trophy since 1990 at Anfield. Outside, large crowds celebrated in crowded streets.
Even after just over an hour had passed, fireworks were set off outside the stadium in the party-hungry city, waiting to pay tribute to the league champions and finally experience a new trophy award. Manager Jürgen Klopp asked people to celebrate at home, Mayor Joe Anderson the same, to no avail.
Liverpool had not lost in the previous 58 home games in the league and Jürgen Klopp’s team was not looking to mess up the party night in the city.
RARE GOOD: Jürgen Klopp with the league trophy at Anfield. He is the first coach after Kenny Dalglish to lift this trophy.
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Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish carried the 25.4-kilo Premier League trophy into the stadium with the league’s boss, Richard Masters, half an hour before midnight, before Jürgen Klopp entered the stage as first man and was then followed by players and support staff. Finally, Captain Jordan Henderson came and gave Dalglish a hug.
– We have waited a long time, and the guys deserved this moment. Fortunately, our families got to experience it. Winning the Premier League has been my dream since I was a boy, Henderson said.
– This is a great moment. We now have four major trophies (Premier League, Champions League, Club World Cup and European Super Cup). I’m not interested in photos, but I want to take a picture with the four trophies. It is not often that a club has them at the same time, said Klopp, who had a message for the fans.
– We did this for you. We all have to celebrate at home today, but prepare for the party. When this bullshit virus is gone, we’ll celebrate together! he reported to Sky Sports.
Dalglish handed over the trophy to Liverpool captain Henderson.
– He is an icon in this football club, a great person we all love, Henderson said about Dalglish to BBC Breakfast ahead of the match.
When Henderson lifted the trophy, a wild celebration began among the players on stage at the same time as a violent firework went off over Anfield.
– It is a wonderful night for the world’s best football club the last two years, says TV 2’s expert commentator and former national team coach Nils Johan Semb after the match.
And outside the stadium there was a wild atmosphere despite that there was sharp criticism of the violations of infection control and social distancing during the celebration when the league championship became clear. Pictures show how large crowds were gathered outside the stadium and in the city streets.
The party started when Naby Keita made cream of the net after 22 minutes of the match. It smelled scorched by the shot. Willian made a nasty mistake that the Liverpool player intercepted and accelerated. He put all his strength into the shot and clinked in the direction of the angle and 1-0.
LOWER CHELSEA: Roberto Firmino has put in 4-1 Foto: Laurence Griffiths/NMC/Pool / GETTY POOL
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But Liverpool did not settle for one rocket. Just over a quarter of an hour later, Trent Alexander-Arnold would not be any worse than his teammate and doubled the lead after a phenomenal free kick from around 25 meters.
The photos from the streets show how the fans reacted when the red shirts took the lead:
FULL CHEERS: Crowded with people in the streets of Liverpool during the match despite warnings against gathering in large crowds.
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And when Gini Wijnaldum knocked in 3-0 just before the break, it looked like it would be an easy night for the home team, which has been champions for a long time already.
But the battle was far from over. First, Olivier Giroud put in the first reduction on the last attack before the break.
And even though Roberto Firmino put in 4-1 ten minutes after the break, Frank Lampard’s team did not give up. For both after 61 minutes and 73 minutes, the away team reduced. Christian Pulisic lifted the game to the away team.
Klopp shook his head when Chelsea put in the away team’s third goal. But he could grin again when Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain put in 5-3 and ended a party of a football match.
PS! When the referee blew off the match, Manchester United was still in 3rd place in the Premier League before the last round of the series. This means that Solskjær’s team will qualify for the Champions League even with a loss against Leicester, if Chelsea lose their last match, against Wolverhampon.
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