• Premier: Liverpool becomes deadly: falls to Watford after more than an undefeated year

You can not talk about crisis because the Cup has never been its goal and because they are still the best in England, but Liverpool is in full recession and defeat against Chelsea in the round of the FA Cup (2-0), propitiated For a great Kepa , it increases the doubts of the reds to eight days of receiving Atlético de Madrid.

With an eleven with enough substitutes and only a headline such as Sadio Mané, Virgil Van Dijk and Andy Robertson , Liverpool could not throw the wall of a Kepa Arrizabalaga who completed a great performance, augmented by the goals of Willian and Ross Barkley .

Kepa was returning to the Stamford Bridge goal. Six games later, since January 21, the Spanish was put under the sticks. And he did it with great success. He had all the pressure, facing one of the best teams, if not the best, in Europe and Kepa claimed from the first minutes. He took a good hand at a shot from Mané and lifted the entire Stamford Bridge with a triple anthological stop.

That lucid moment made all the waiting and all the substitutions valid. If Lampard's plan was to give him a touch of attention it had worked. He also decorated it with another intervention shot by Mané before the break. Five stops in the first part that contrasted with the problems of his compatriot in the other goal. Adrián San Miguel started well, with a stop at Willian, but a few seconds later he got into a mess.

He failed until Van Dijk

Or rather Fabinho . The Brazilian lost the ball at the start of the ball in the area's crown. Barkley scolded it, left it to Willian and it connected a shot at medium height, strong, but focused, that Adrian was unable to clear. At Liverpool, as in his last three games, things just went out, and only the crossbar saved them from getting 2-0 down in a foul by Mason Mount from the front.

In this misfortune in which those of Klopp have fallen, not even Van Dijk is reliable and the Dutch opened the way of the second of Chelsea. He was wrong in a ball divided into his own field and handed it to Barkley. The English half shot out, crossed half the field, chased by a slow Fabinho, and took a dry shot from the front to which nothing Adrian could do.

Liverpool was left wanting, put Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah to try to scratch something, but he could leave with a 3-0, if Adrián had not taken a spectacular mitt so that a hand by hand of Giroud crashed in the crossbar.

Chelsea joins Arsenal as classified for the quarterfinals of the FA Cup, while Liverpool is out of a competition that from the beginning did not interest him, but now, eight days after trying the comeback against Atletico , it hurts him again.

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