Watch live stream the FA Cup final Chelsea vs Liverpool. Back in the days of Jose Mourinho and Rafael Benitez, Chelsea versus Liverpool was as keenly-fought an engagement as any in English football. The two went head-to-head so often that they became as sick of the sight of each other as the rest of the nation was of watching a series of attritional battles that were won by a single goal at best. A pair of 0-0 draws in the group stages of the 2005-06 Champions League was the nadir.
Those were halcyon days for both clubs. They were among Europe's best with two of the best coaches in the game. The last time the pair met in a major final was the Carling Cup final of 2005, where Mourinho won his first trophy at Chelsea on a day where Steven Gerrard, heavily rumoured to be joining the Blues that summer, scored an own-goal he later described as "one of the lowest days I've had as a footballer".
At 31, Gerrard is now the veteran one-club man whose experience of the big occasion is expected to carry his team-mates through. His opposite number is John Terry, the same age and similarly loyal to the club where he made his bones. Both lead clubs whose 2011-12 has been soap operatic but now has a chance to end in glory.
Chelsea vs Liverpool Lineup prediction
Liverpool: Reina, Johnson, Skrtel, Agger, Enrique, Henderson, Shelvey, Downing, Gerrard, Bellamy, Suarez
Chelsea: Reina, Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Terry, Cole, Mikel, Meireles, Ramires, Lampard, Mata, Drogba
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