Christian Pulisic didn’t start in Chelsea’s vital game against Liverpool on Wednesday, but it certainly had an impact when given the chance.
The US international came off the bench and moments later provided outstanding assistance to Tammy Abraham before scoring a sensational goal, cutting Chelsea’s deficit against new Premier League champions in what was ultimately a loss. by 5-3.
Chelsea lost 4-1 before Pulisic entered, with Liverpool in good shape on the day they were due to receive the Premier League trophy. Pulisic, who used to play for Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp when they were both in Dortmund, entered as part of a triple substitution in the 59th minute, and two minutes later the deficit was two.
Pulisic made his way through Fabinho and Trent Alexander-Arnold, drove Joe Gomez mad to pass him by and then curved his cross with Virgil van Dijk, finding Abraham for the short-range final single to put it 4-2.
Pulisic missed a golden opportunity to put the 4-3 soon after, as he stumbled upon a long pass from Reece James before scraping his shot and throwing it, but he took advantage of his next opportunity. Receiving the ball in the box from his chest, Pulisic tapped three times, prepared his shot, turned and fired for Alisson to bring Chelsea closer.
With a win or a draw, Chelsea would have secured a place in the Champions League next season with a game to spare, but that was not the case, as Liverpool scored on a clinical counterattack in the 84th minute through Alex Oxlade- Chamberlain to restore the edge of two goals.
“I thought the momentum was really changing. I thought we had them,” he told Sky Sports Pulisic, who missed Chelsea’s FA Cup semifinal victory over Manchester United on Sunday with an apparent minor injury, to Sky Sports afterward. of the party.
Instead, Chelsea enters the end of Sunday’s season against Wolves in fourth place, tied on points with Manchester United in third place (significantly behind on the goal differential) and one point ahead of Leicester in fifth place.
For Pulisic, he now has four goals and four assists since the Premier League restart, proving himself to be one of the best players in Chelsea and the league in the past month. In the season, Pulisic has nine league goals.
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