No winner at Stamford Bridge. A time ahead of the score but then long dominated, the Liverpool Reds leave London with a draw against Chelsea (1-1) this Sunday, during the first day of the English championship. It was Colombian Luis Diaz who opened the scoring, before French international Axel Disasi equalized for the Blues.
Yet convincing in the first minutes of play, the new Chelsea led by Mauricio Pochettino first took the water at home against the Reds. Punished by a very fit Mohamed Salah for the recovery, the premises were first led after the goal of the returning Luis Dias (18th). The formation of Jurgen Klopp wanted to drive the point home and take advantage of its strong moment putting to the torture the defense of the locals led by Thiago Silva. After a goal disallowed by Salah for an offside position, the Londoners had their click to return to the game. In a highlight, the in-form players (Sterling, James) combined well to come back to score. It was rookie Axel Disasi who allowed his partners to equalise. The former Monegasque is starting his Premier League career in the best possible way by already scoring his first goal. The end of the first half went at 100 per hour, from one goal to another with in particular two goals disallowed on each side for offside positions. Conversely, the second act was much more closed, despite a slight domination by Chelsea who stumbled on Alisson already in good shape. The 22 players especially suffered physically for this recovery and multiplied the technical errors in the last meters.
Recruited this summer for 45 million euros, the vice world champion Axel Disasi succeeded in the best of ways his first meeting in the jersey of the Blues. True symbol of the “new Chelsea”, the tricolor first in the hard at the start of the meeting was able to seize his chance to put his people back in the game. Like a surface fox, the central defender pulled away to take back a ball put in the box by Sterling and sound the revolt. Before reuniting with Benoit Badiashile, his former partner at the Principality club, Disasi has scored points and could well establish himself as a staple in the Chelsea defense.
The two disappointed last year therefore start their seasons with an encouraging draw, the fifth consecutive in their confrontations in the league.
