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As Liverpool prepare to take on Chelsea at Anfield on Saturday (12.30pm kick-off), a dour mood surrounds both sets of supporters after disappointing seasons in the Premier League. Almost exactly 10 years ago, they were in worst positions, as the eighth-placed Reds faced the ninth-placed Stamford Bridge side.
Then, as now, neither team had set the Premier League alight as Leicester City romped to victory in the most unlikely of title wins. For Chelsea's part, they set a new record for the worst-ever Premier League title defence, slumping to a 10th-place finish and a whopping 37 points off their tally the previous season - though the Foxes would break that record just the following season.
Christian Benteke equalised at the death for Liverpool after a brilliant Eden Hazard goal gave the recently-deposed champions the lead in a much smaller Anfield - albeit one with the colossal skeleton of the new Main Stand looming above the pitch in the last game played before its opening in September of that year. And we have looked back at the Liverpool squad from that day, how their Anfield careers played out and where they've ended up a decade on.
