Liverpool vs Chelsea result: Electric Conor Bradley scores first senior goal as hosts run riot

A star is born. That is always a bold statement to make when it comes to playing for Liverpool, given their stellar history, but that is exactly what Conor Bradley is as he delivered the kind of performance that will be talked about for years to come.

An outstanding goal, in only his second Premier League appearance, and two assists were followed by a rousing standing ovation as he was eventually substituted having humiliated an abject Chelsea. His name rang around The Kop – and that has to be earned. And it was earned.

His replacement? It was Trent Alexander-Arnold who has been irreplaceable for so long at right-back for Liverpool but now, amazingly, has competition for his place from a 20-year-old academy product from Castlederg in Northern Ireland who also plays the kind of fearless, front-foot football that Jurgen Klopp demands.

Of course, Alexander-Arnold will return to the starting line-up but maybe Bradley has given Klopp food for thought; maybe he can now actually play the England international more fully in midfield?

Bradley showed that Liverpool have a brilliant future – and also a thrilling present. That cannot be said about Chelsea who looked so wretchedly bad, especially in a first-half when they were simply overwhelmed, that it questions whether Mauricio Pochettino can turn this around. Their former captain John Terry was in among the way fans and goodness knows what he made of this spineless display.