Chelsea was markedly better after the half-time break and the improvement paid off at the hour mark, as Diego Costa scored his fifth goal in five matches with an assist from Nemanja Matic.
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Liverpool continued to dominate however, and they deservedly took the lead on 17 minutes when a quickly worked free kick between James Milner and Philippe Coutinho led to the latter crossing for an unmarked Dejan Lovren to volley home.
Despite Diego Costa pulling a goal back, Klopp’s men held on for a deserved three points which moved them up to fourth in the Premier League. Ivanovic wins it but can only folick it on to the back post where Origi meets it at the apex of his leap and heads it down.
Liverpool’s scintillating and eventually decisive first half display exposed a lack of determination and fight throughout the entire Chelsea team.
With work to improve Anfield running into the start of the campaign, Liverpool have played just once at home so far and have already visited Arsenal, Tottenham and now Chelsea.
Chelsea attacker Eden Hazard says that Antonio Conte has returned the feel-good factor to Stamford Bridge.
“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”. “We must feel the danger and sometimes we don’t, that is the truth”.
“We started well this season but we have to be focused on everything, these are the games where we have to pay attention to all the details”.
“We have 10 points and that’s fantastic – really fantastic and I am really happy about it after these hard fixtures”.
Liverpool continued to press while Chelsea remained pinned back and in the 31st minute, Jordan Henderson scored a truly world class long range shot to beat Courtois. So often Chelsea score in the last few seconds but I don’t think they created much and we did well.
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“We are a team who wants to play, who wants to win – we are not a team who will defend deep and await our chances”, 27-year-old Lovren told Liverpool website.
