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Chelsea V Liverpool
Referee: Paul Tierney
VAR Referee: Michael Oliver

Chelsea have a perfect 5 Matches, 5 Wins record under Paul Tierney in the Premier League - 100% Win Rate. Tierney is Chelsea’s best Referee in terms of Win Rate.

Liverpool also have a strong record under Tierney in the Premier League since 2014 - 78% (5th best) - a 7-1-1 record.

Key Player Watch: Sadio Mane was involved in 5 Key Decisions in the 2019/2020 Premier League season - 80% (4/5) of these decisions went in favour of the Liverpool attacker. Mane has a 14.3% Key Decision Involvement Frequency in the Premier League (15th Highest of all PL Players).

#PatchyPaul Tierney was the 2nd lowest ranked Referee in the PL last season in terms of Key Decision Accuracy (KDA) according to the fan consensus. Tierney had just a 59% Key Decision Accuracy last season (16/ 27 Key Decisions were deemed correct in the eyes of the fans). OUCH.

M.Oliver is a trusted VAR Referee. Oliver had a strong VAR KDA in the Premier League last season (87%) - 3rd best VAR KDA in the PL.

Expect quality decision making from the VAR box in this Fixture. Oliver overturns Key On-Field decisions 20% of the time - league average ~ 20.16%

20% of Paul Tierney’s Key Decisions last season were given inside the first 15 minutes of a fixture.

Expect VAR to get Involved: A whopping 45% of Tierney’s Key Decisions are overturned by the VAR. Tierney is subject to the highest VAR Overturn rate of all PL Referees.

All in all - after analysing all of that - expect controversy in the Chelsea v Liverpool game, the standard of on-pitch refereeing isn't going to be great if going by these stats and VAR may be required to get to the right decision.

That's if you can really rely on VAR. 🤷‍♂️