Liverpool demonstrated their growing title credentials by ending Chelsea's incredible 86 game home game undefeated streak in the Premier League to go three points clear at the top of the table. Xabi Alonso's deflected 10th minute strike gave Liverpool victory and shattered Chelsea's streak which had lasted from February 2004 on home turf. It was a deserved triumph for Rafael Benitez's side achieved without star striker Fernando Torres and is the first defeat in Luiz Felipe Scolari's reign at Chelsea.

I am so happy because this performance is the kind of which I really needed to witness to show me that we had the belief and at the same time the technical ability to beat the rest of the top four on their patch without one of our so called "two man team" (Gerrard and Torres). I hope that we have the belief, confidence and strength in depth to last the whole season now and lift that title that we have had to wait for for nearly two decades!