Moises Caicedo and Chelsea’s horror night highlights Liverpool’s lucky escape

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It did, however, involve an old ally: in a symbolic moment, a microcosm of the match and the season alike, Caicedo lost out – and lost the ball – and his former Brighton sidekick Alexis Mac Allister won it, enabling Luis Diaz to release Conor Bradley for Liverpool to double their lead. In reality, they, and Conor Gallagher, were blitzed by Liverpool’s £95m trio of the summer signings Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai, plus the homegrown Curtis Jones; precisely the sort of player Boehly would try and sell for pure profit in the books, but one who Klopp has nurtured and improved. open image in gallery Pochettino saw his £200m midfield overwhelmed by Liverpool If one mystery about Caicedo is his price – terrific as his one season as a regular for Brighton was, it represented a small body of work to command such a big fee – another is how he somehow seemed to lose a yard of pace on the M23 that separates Sussex from London, to lose the physical power that appeared to render him so formidable. As Chelsea were battered and buffeted, with Caicedo powerless to resist the tides of Liverpool attacks, with the club he chose to join mired in 10th, the one he rejected five points clear at the top of the table, Caicedo offered an inadvertent reminder that part of the defensive midfielder’s job is to make the right choices.