Chelsea down Liverpool
The midweek Premier League action drew to a close at Anfield on Thursday evening as Liverpool and Chelsea faced off.
Given Chelsea’s impressive resurgence under Thomas Tuchel and Liverpool’s continued decline, Thursday’s tie was a huge one in the race for a Champions League spot.
A win for the Blues would, temporarily at least, see them move up to 4th in the Premier League table.
It would also leave Liverpool down in 7th and four points adrift of Chelsea.
And when all was said and done at Anfield, this is exactly what happened.
The Londoners dominated proceedings, limiting a poor Liverpool side to just one shot on target.
Mason Mount would score the only goal of the game 42 minutes in:
Mason Mount 🔥
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) March 5, 2021
Mount explains his celebration vs Liverpool
And now, the Englishman has moved to explain the interesting celebration he performed with Reece James after opening the scoring.
Mount explained that the celebration was due to Kurt Zouma and his love of anime and cartoons.
“Me and Chilly sit behind Kurt Zouma on the plane and he’s always watching anime.”
Mason Mount explains his celebration 😂 pic.twitter.com/NGDpvCDwVh
— B/R Football (@brfootball) March 4, 2021
“Me and Chilly always sit together behind Zouma on the plane when we travel away for the Champions League and stuff.
“He’s always watching cartoons like anime so we usually watch from behind and laugh at him.
“We said if one of us scored, we’d do it so that was the reason behind it and obviously it’s one for Kurt as well.”
Quotes via Chelsea’s official website.
Mount himself also posted an edited version of his celebration to Twitter post-match, with a Dragon Ball inspired caption:
Kamehameha! ☄️
Up the Chels! pic.twitter.com/DfetIG37ts— Mason Mount (@masonmount_10) March 4, 2021
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This article was edited by Robert Fosterman.
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Premier League table
# | Team | MP | D | P |
1 | Manchester City FC | 27 | 39 | 65 |
2 | Manchester United FC | 27 | 21 | 51 |
3 | Leicester City FC | 27 | 15 | 50 |
4 | West Ham United FC | 26 | 9 | 45 |
5 | Chelsea FC | 26 | 16 | 44 |
6 | Liverpool FC | 26 | 13 | 43 |
7 | Everton FC | 25 | 5 | 43 |
8 | Tottenham Hotspur FC | 25 | 14 | 39 |
9 | Aston Villa FC | 25 | 11 | 39 |
10 | Arsenal FC | 26 | 7 | 37 |
11 | Leeds United | 26 | -1 | 35 |
12 | Wolverhampton Wanderers FC | 27 | -9 | 34 |
13 | Crystal Palace FC | 27 | -14 | 34 |
14 | Southampton FC | 26 | -13 | 30 |
15 | Burnley FC | 27 | -16 | 29 |
16 | Brighton & Hove Albion FC | 26 | -7 | 26 |
17 | Newcastle United FC | 26 | -17 | 26 |
18 | Fulham FC | 26 | -11 | 23 |
19 | West Bromwich Albion | 26 | -35 | 17 |
20 | Sheffield United FC | 27 | -27 | 14 |
Player | Team | Goals |
---|---|---|
Salah, Mohamed | Liverpool FC | 17 |
Fernandes, Bruno | Manchester United FC | 15 |
Kane, Harry | Tottenham Hotspur FC | 14 |
Son, Heung Min | Tottenham Hotspur FC | 13 |
Bamford, Patrick | Leeds United | 13 |
Calvert-Lewin, Dominic | Everton FC | 13 |
Vardy, Jamie | Leicester City FC | 12 |
Gundogan, Ilkay | Manchester City FC | 11 |
Wilson, Callum | Newcastle United FC | 10 |
Watkins, Ollie | Aston Villa FC | 10 |
Rashford, Marcus | Manchester United FC | 9 |
Sterling, Raheem | Manchester City FC | 9 |
Barnes, Harvey | Leicester City FC | 9 |
Zaha, Wilfried | Crystal Palace FC | 9 |
Lacazette, Alexandre | Arsenal FC | 9 |
Maddison, James | Leicester City FC | 8 |
Ings, Danny | Southampton FC | 8 |
Aubameyang, Pierre-Emerick | Arsenal FC | 8 |
Soucek, Tomas | West Ham United FC | 8 |
Mahrez, Riyad | Manchester City FC | 7 |
Player | Team | Red Cards | Yellow Cards |
---|---|---|---|
Gallagher, Conor | West Bromwich Albion | 0 | 8 |
Bellerin, Hector | Arsenal FC | 0 | 8 |
Milivojevic, Luka | Crystal Palace FC | 1 | 7 |
Hayden, Isaac | Newcastle United FC | 0 | 8 |
Maguire, Harry | Manchester United FC | 0 | 7 |
Lundstram, John | Sheffield United FC | 1 | 6 |
Evans, Jonny | Leicester City FC | 0 | 7 |
Egan, John | Sheffield United FC | 1 | 6 |
Bissouma, Yves | Brighton & Hove Albion FC | 1 | 6 |
Grealish, Jack | Aston Villa FC | 0 | 6 |
Klich, Mateusz | Leeds United | 0 | 6 |
Doucoure, Abdoulaye | Everton FC | 0 | 6 |
Hojbjerg, Pierre | Tottenham Hotspur FC | 0 | 6 |
Xhaka, Granit | Arsenal FC | 1 | 5 |
Romeu, Oriol | Southampton FC | 0 | 6 |
Kante, N`Golo | Chelsea FC | 0 | 6 |
Luiz, Douglas | Aston Villa FC | 0 | 5 |
Fernandes, Bruno | Manchester United FC | 0 | 5 |
Ward-Prowse, James | Southampton FC | 0 | 5 |
Dallas, Stuart | Leeds United | 0 | 5 |
Player | Team | Assists |
---|---|---|
Kane, Harry | Tottenham Hotspur FC | 11 |
Fernandes, Bruno | Manchester United FC | 10 |
Grealish, Jack | Aston Villa FC | 10 |
De Bruyne, Kevin | Manchester City FC | 10 |
Son, Heung Min | Tottenham Hotspur FC | 8 |
Rashford, Marcus | Manchester United FC | 6 |
Cresswell, Aaron | West Ham United FC | 6 |
Digne, Lucas | Everton FC | 6 |
Sterling, Raheem | Manchester City FC | 5 |
Maddison, James | Leicester City FC | 5 |
Firmino, Roberto | Liverpool FC | 5 |
Ward-Prowse, James | Southampton FC | 5 |
Werner, Timo | Chelsea FC | 5 |
Raphinha | Leeds United | 5 |
Neto, Pedro | Wolverhampton Wanderers FC | 5 |
Robertson, Andrew | Liverpool FC | 5 |
Shaw, Luke | Manchester United FC | 5 |
Bamford, Patrick | Leeds United | 4 |
Vardy, Jamie | Leicester City FC | 4 |
Wilson, Callum | Newcastle United FC | 4 |
Source: 101greatgoals.com