{"id":15142,"date":"2026-05-09T13:28:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/premier-league-live-updates-liverpool-host-misfiring-chelsea-at-anfield-espn\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T13:28:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:28:54","slug":"premier-league-live-updates-liverpool-host-misfiring-chelsea-at-anfield-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/premier-league-live-updates-liverpool-host-misfiring-chelsea-at-anfield-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League live updates: Liverpool host misfiring Chelsea at Anfield &#8211; ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the season is near, and the <a data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" href=\"\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\">Premier League<\/a> is reaching a climax. There&#8217;s still lots to play for in the title hunt, European races and relegation battle.<br \/>We kick off Saturday with a clash between <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=364\">Liverpool<\/a> and <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c43a00b9-2826-72b3-77a0-62730abc936e\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=363\">Chelsea<\/a> at Anfield as Arne Slot&#8217;s side look to edge closer to qualifying for next season&#8217;s <a data-league-guid=\"da52796f-2621-3351-8e77-955da92ea82d\" href=\"\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/UEFA.CHAMPIONS\">UEFA Champions League<\/a>, while the Blues &#8212; under interim head coach Calum McFarlane &#8212; try to qualify for any sort of European competition.<br \/>Later, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ebc2fd0-35d3-733b-5666-b75035a3bce9\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=360\">Manchester United<\/a> bid to finish their season on a high under interim boss Michael Carrick. They take on <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"479e0b8f-fbeb-4a27-ce19-2c6ab31ac811\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=366\">Sunderland<\/a>, seeking their fourth straight win.<br \/>Finally, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"94fd5d7e-35b1-9d52-c9f2-4a37259bea36\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=382\">Manchester City<\/a> will look to keep up with <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"feb44e87-58fa-9597-2691-b3c32768ebe4\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=359\">Arsenal<\/a> in the title race as they host <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0446e7fd-7655-f17a-d282-8c401b808d1f\" href=\"\/soccer\/team?id=337\">Brentford<\/a>, a side that is dreaming of qualifying for Europe for the first time in their history.<br \/>Enjoy all the updates from today&#8217;s matches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi4gFBVV95cUxPOXNYVnBabEhZeTd1NDktYzFYdEJ5Y1RwSTlWNkNaVmZFdno3X3k0a1d2OUo5bTBxd3RvbHdJdWdYZ1NGYlNmYkk5SXNZMFVHRnBpUDRwMVUxV0lnZDU0Z2JEcmFQSEtCRnRGVlZyTmRJb1h3d2dZcFZwcXV3cGhPZ05RUjgxSk5IMmFJSm1WX2dHbXZJYjJrUUZEQnZLdXFHaWlHZUh1TGI4Q3RRNGxfU2JuTWJGQWJQZDJqMXBjQVlSVllkblE2Wm1scGNYcVFXM3djUldpQ2dJcExGdDBNZnBR?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the season is near, and the Premier League is reaching a climax. There&#8217;s still lots to play for in the title hunt, European races and relegation battle.We kick off Saturday with a clash between Liverpool and Chelsea at Anfield as Arne Slot&#8217;s side look to edge closer to qualifying for next season&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}