Andreas Christensen became the first Chelsea player to receive a red card since Tiemoue Bakayoko’s horror show against Watford in 2018.
For the first time in 89 Premier League games, a Blues player was given their marching orders and it could not have come at a worse time or against a more ruthless opponent.
Sadio Mane’s brace sealed Liverpool’s 2-0 Premier League victory at Chelsea after Andreas Christensen’s ‘crazy’ red card and Kepa Arrizabalaga’s howler.
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Mane bagged his first league goals at Stamford Bridge as Liverpool pounced on defender Christensen’s dismissal, coasting to the win and even handing a second-half debut to new signing Thiago Alcantara.
Chelsea kept shape and threatened several times for the bulk of an engaging first half – but then Christensen’s fully deserved red card changed the game.
The Denmark international rugby tackled the goal-bound Mane, just as he was bracing to chip a stranded Kepa.
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The last player to see red was Bakayoko at Vicarage Road during a disastrous 30-minute cameo which few will ever forget.
In the space of just half an hour in Hertfordshire, the £40million signing lost the ball seven times, misplaced four passes and was booked twice as a bemused Mike Dean produced a red.
On both occasions, Bakayoko conceded possession and then earned himself two silly yellow cards.
While Christensen’s afternoon in west London was not perhaps as calamitous, the 24-year-old knows he surely has to improve in the future.
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