Liverpool blown away on a Blue breeze

IF this really was Carlo Ancelotti’s first serious test as manager of Chelsea, the Italian passed it, and comfortably so.

A routine victory over his supposed title rivals sent Chelsea two points clear at the top of the Premier League and emphasised why Ancelotti will not go the same way as Luiz Felipé Scolari.

This was the fixture last season that proved the catalyst for Scolari’s painful demise, Rafael Benitez’s side ending Chelsea’s long unbeaten run at home in the league and beginning to unpick ‘the Blue Brazil’.