Gallas and Crespo do damage for Chelsea

Chelsea 2 Liverpool 0

Liverpool did their very best to upset Jose Mourinho's champion side and still lost, courtesy of goals from William Gallas and Hernan Crespo. A second consecutive Chelsea title, always a probability, is now an inevitability.

Merseyside frustrations ran deep, and they boiled over towards the end of a fractious game when their goalkeeper Jose Reina was sent off for slapping Chelsea's Arjen Robben. The Dutchman's reaction was absurdly theatrical, but once he had raised his hands, referee Alan Wiley was left with little choice but to flash a red card.