Football fans, even with a little experience, remember well Liverpool's and Chelsea's victories in the Champions League finals. Now both clubs are not in their best shape. At the same time, the degree of crisis in each of them is noted to varying degrees. Liverpool shot themselves in the foot with excessive activity during the last off-season. Spending about half a billion euros on the transfer market, Arne Slot faced the need to integrate new star players into the well-oiled mechanisms of a team that had just become English champions. After surviving the nightmare autumn months of 2025, Liverpool had somewhat regained their form by 2026. Yet they could not reproduce last season's results, but they fulfilled the minimum task, practically securing a top-5 finish in the Premier League. Even after a comparatively poor season, Arne Slot can feel relatively confident—it's unlikely he'll be fired by the end of the current football year. Chelsea is a completely different story. Everyone who could have been fired from the London club already has been. In 2026 alone, the Blues parted ways with two coaches: Enzo Maresca and Liam Rosenior. Fans consider the dismissal of the first to be a mistake, and blame the current ninth place in the Premier League on the club's management and owners. Bookmakers have made the home side the favorites for the upcoming match, offering odds of 1.85 on their victory. In terms of crisis level, Chelsea can now be compared only with Real Madrid. However, in London the players are not yet fighting each other as they do at the royal club. In the English league the Blues are breaking all records. A home defeat to Nottingham Forest on Monday was their sixth consecutive Premier League defeat. In the last ten official matches Chelsea have lost eight times, managing to win only in the FA Cup. The London club is already counting solely on this trophy, as in the Premier League they will not manage to reach the Champions League places. Liverpool lost their last match in Manchester, but the team's current fourth place in the league and three wins before that allow Slot and his staff to feel comfortable. The hosts will win the upcoming match.