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Monday 21 November 2011

CHELSEA HUMILIATED AT HOME BY LiVERPOOL: Charlie Adam dedicated Liverpool's win over Chelsea to Brad Jones.

Glen Johnson put the boot into old club Chelsea as his late strike earned Liverpool a 2-1 success at Stamford Bridge.
The full-back's classy run and finish (87) condemned Andre Villas-Boas' brittle Blues to a second straight home defeat after Daniel Sturridge (55) had cancelled out a Maxi Rodriguez opener (34).
Not since 2002 had Chelsea lost back-to-back league games on their own patch but, while they created enough chances to win, the hosts were again guilty of the kind of slipshod defending which saw Arsenal hit five in west London last month.
Liverpool had got in behind the home guard more than once by the time they took the lead, Charlie Adam mugging Jon Obi Mikel and beginning a move which saw Craig Bellamy exchange passes with Luis Suarez and generously tee up Rodriguez.
Villas-Boas sent on Sturridge ahead of Fernando Torres, and the substitute responded by bundling in Florent Malouda's miscued cross at the back post.
Chelsea pressed for a winner, Malouda again making poor contact eight yards out and Branislav Ivanovic bringing the best out of Pepe Reina.
But there was space for the Reds to exploit and Johnson did just that, killing Adam's pass and leaving Ashley Cole for dead before sliding home left-footed.

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