Chelsea handed a second debut to deadline-day signing David Luiz, in place of the injured John Terry, but defensively they did not impress.
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Liverpool skipper, Henderson, chanced his luck with a clinically struck curler from 30 yards out and the ball found its way into the top corner.
“Of course I’m always happy to score but I’m more happy with the performance of the team, I think we played brilliantly, especially in the first half”.
“When you concede space to Liverpool it is very hard because their three forwards are very fast with good technique”. Diego Costa pulled one back in the 61st minute but Chelsea were not able to get back into the game.
“We paid a lot”. They scored a goal in a situation where we had a counter-attack and it was really hard (physically) at this time because both sides were counter-attacking.
“It’s not important if this defeat is my first defeat [as Chelsea head coach]”.
Conte said: “I don’t want to repeat a bad season like a year ago”. Last season was a bad season and I don’t want to repeat it. “We win together and we lose together”.
The video comes courtesy of the Twitter account @MailkDelight and gives a whole new context to a finish that will surely be in contention for goal of the season come the end of the Premier League campaign.
Substitute Divock Origi almost made it 3-1 to Liverpool soon after, but Thibaut Courtois pulled off a great save to stop the striker’s header. After struggling with injury for large parts of last season he has increasingly started looking like himself this season – with today being the best he has been so far.
“Are we title contenders?”
Having already beaten last season’s league champions and runners-up, Liverpool’s third win makes the second-round loss to promoted Burnley even more confounding.
“I repeat, when you finish the season in 10th place, something unusual is there”. We have 10 points.
“I’m really not interested in what people say”, said the German.
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Asked why he waited, Conte said: “Because in the second half we started with the same players and we had great intensity, scored a goal and created chances to score another. We just have to do it every week, or every three days”.
