Chelsea gained the upper hand in a tight battle for a place in next season’s Champions League by inflicting Liverpool’s fifth consecutive home defeat as Mason Mount’s winner earned a 1-0 win on Thursday.

The Blues move into fourth in the Premier League, four points clear of Liverpool, who slip to seventh.

After a 68-game unbeaten league run at Anfield over nearly four years was ended in January, the English champions are now on their worst ever league run at home.

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