“Jordan is a good captain”, Wijnaldum told The Liverpool Echo.
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The 47-year-old acknowledged the demons of last season still linger in the dressing room as he tried to explain the gulf to Jurgen Klopp’s men: “I don’t want to repeat the last season”.
The game proved that both of these teams will be chasing down the title this season the fact that they both are not in Europe could be a blessing in disguise as I feel without the distraction it could give them more focus to challenge the title once again.
The Express report that Conte is already under pressure, having taken over in the summer, though the Italian is said to be unhappy with Chelsea’s transfer business. “We just have to do it every week, or every three days”.
“I think there are clubs that paid 20, 30, 40 (million pounds), which is a bigger deal than what Man United paid for Paul because you make a relation between what you pay and the club revenue”. It’s important, because last season was bad.
Joel Matip has praised Jordan Henderson for his wonder goal at Chelsea – and confirmed his own intentions regarding the African Cup of Nations.
“We win together, we lose together”.
It was Conte’s first home league defeat since a 2-1 loss to Sampdoria with Juventus in January 2013.
“I don’t want that”.
“We want to play like we played in the first half”. The work that this takes means Liverpool have covered more distance as a team than any other side, with Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City behind.
‘The second half we controlled the game, nearly scored a second goal to draw and of course it is not a good night for us but we’ll keep fighting for the next games’. Fabregas must be accommodated and Marcos Alonso integrated into his leaky defence for the first time.
Despite a shaky start to proceedings, fumbling Daniel Sturridge’s effort towards goal in only the second minute, Courtois recovered to put in an average looking performance in the Chelsea goal.
‘Their second goal was incredible, the first one was a quick free-kick and we must pay attention to this sort of thing because they started better than us.
The win moved Liverpool level with Chelsea on 10 points after five games and prevented the Londoners from going top of the table.”We played football like hell”, said Klopp, whose side have now played Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea away from home in their opening fixtures.”It was really nice to watch”.
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In short, a defensive midfielder was a waste of a shirt when a combination of three industrious central players could do just as well – in addition to the work rate in attack from the likes of Robert Firmino and newcomer Sadio Mane.
